“The Black Phone” (2022) – A parent’s worst nightmare. A kid’s worst nightmare too. Director Scott Derrickson’s “The Black Phone” is a child abduction movie, and this 102-minute horror film will sometimes snatch your breath. Rather than portray the story as a straight-up thriller with a sinister creep’s evident dangers versus a young hero’s tangible devices for escape, somewhere in the second act, “The Black Phone” departs from pragmatism and enters other startling spaces. Derrickson and writer Robert Cargill’s screenplay dramatically turns and feels like a Stephen King adaptation, especially…
‘The Black Phone’ is a dialed-in horror flick
