Review of The Black Phone (2022) by Mauro_Lanari — 10 Oct 2022
(Mauro Lanari).
To remind me of inanimate objects that are transformed, telepathic relationships, phantasmatic presences, clairvoyance (the "shining"), I should evoke illustrious authors, those interested not in frightening with a bloody and brutal horror but in disturbing with the uncanny, the psychic destabilization in front of the incomprehensible. Derrickson's film goes in this direction, a supernatural universe of abuses without a clear origin: outcasts, bullies, veterans from Vietnam, psychiatricized people, suicides, dysfunctional families, incapable adults, violent preteens, avoiding the nostalgia and vintage side practiced instead by "Stranger Things". However, the script is undermined by some flaws: not all the tips received at the black phone prove to be useful in the end, to the murderous revenge it would have been preferable the delivery to the police of "The Grabber" rendered helpless, the bond between Finney and his sister Gwen is less relevant than it could and should have been.
This review of The Black Phone (2022) was written by Mauro_Lanari on 10 Oct 2022.
The Black Phone has generally received positive reviews.
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