The phone is dead. And it’s ringing ... ‘That’s a script I want to write.’” “All of the ghost kids are like real kids that I knew,” said Derrickson. “The Robin Arellano character ...

File “The Black Phone” under ghost stories, but not the kind you might expect. Given the horror-movie résumé of filmmaker Scott Derrickson (“The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” “Sinister,” ...

Was it monstrous? Sure. Was it commonplace? More than “kids these days” will ever know. The Black Phone feels like a time machine with no interest in stereotypical nostalgia. It doesn’t look ...

Set in the late 1970s, The Black Phone takes ... uses the film’s titular phone to conjure several inspired, memorable images, like that of a child’s ghost hanging upside down in one corner ...

The result is “The Black Phone,” out on Friday ... and he initially brings up the way it visually represented ghost children, as well as the communal relationship between the orphans.

"The Black Phone" was shot in and around the Wilmington ... Originally conceived as "ghost kids" or "black forms," Pour said, the filmmakers eventually decided to make the dead children's ...

More touching than terrifying, Scott Derrickson’s “Black Phone” is less a horror movie than a coming-of-age ghost story ... Stephen King — plucky kids, feckless parents, creepy clowns ...

“It combined a serial killer story with a ghost story in a single location ... There are light spoilers ahead for The Black Phone. When did you discover the short story, and what made you ...

The phone is dead. And it's ringing ... "That's where I was like, 'That's a script I want to write.'" "All of the ghost kids are like real kids that I knew," said Derrickson.