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Overlook V: First Wave Announced For The Horror Festival With THE BLACK PHONE Premiering On Closing Night

The Overlook Film Festival has played a formidable role as one of the standout genre festivals to contribute to the festival community even as the pandemic chugged on. The festival is back for its fifth year starting in June and with more information at the official website, fans can now take a gander at the first wave of titles to make the rounds along with the festival’s closer, Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone. The festival’s four-day event kicks off on June 2 in New Orleans, Lousiana. Read on and stay tuned! (New Orleans, LA) – The Overlook Film Festival is proud to announce its closing night film and first wave of the 2022 festival lineup. The festival will close with Universal Pictures and Blumhouse’s The Black Phone. Based on an award-winning short story from Joe Hill’s best-selling 2005 collection 20th Century Ghosts, this new horror thriller from the filmmakers of Sinister stars four-time Oscar nominee Ethan […]

Universal And Blumhouse’s THE BLACK PHONE Rings In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

https://youtu.be/3eGP6im8AZA I’m loving the setup here with The Black Phone. A kidnapee forced to MacGyver his way out of a sound-proof basement with the help of the dead? Plus he’s taught to be resourceful as well as fight? Way to go Scott! The phone is dead. And it’s ringing. Director Scott Derrickson returns to his terror roots and partners again with the foremost brand in the genre, Blumhouse, with a new horror thriller. Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney. Ethan Hawke stars along with debut actor Mason Thames from a […]