![]() ![]() So my friends and made a brilliant movie out of my short story, "The Black Phone" (out this summer). The key difference between Joe Hill’s ‘The Black Phone’ and the film Scott Derrickson ( Sinister, Doctor Strange) directed the film. Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone also star in The Black Phone. ![]() It’s too late to save them, but they’re determined to help Finney survive by giving him escape tips and warnings about The Grabber’s methods. The killer says the phone doesn’t work, but Finney receives several eerie calls from The Grabber’s previous victims. The Grabber keeps Finney in a soundproof basement with a mattress and a disconnected black phone on the wall. A serial killer known as The Grabber (Hawke) has been kidnapping young boys, and Finney becomes his next target. The Black Phone tells the story of Finney Shaw (Mason Thames), a 13-year-old boy living in a small Denver neighborhood in 1978. ‘The Black Phone’ villain The Grabber and author Joe Hill | Kevin Winter/Getty Images What is the story of ‘The Black Phone’? Here’s what changed and why, according to Hill himself. ![]() However, there’s one minor detail - in fact, it’s just one word - that was altered in the movie. Many fans of the original story have praised the Ethan Hawke starrer for its faithfulness to Hill’s writing. The Black Phone, a film adaptation of Joe Hill’s short horror story of the same name, finally hit theaters on June 24. ![]()
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