The Black Phone
2021 film directed by Scott Derrickson
The Black Phone is a 2021 American horror film in which, after being abducted by a child killer and locked in a soundproof basement, a 13-year-old boy starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer's previous victims.
- Directed by Scott Derrickson. Written by Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, based on the 2004 short story of the same name by Joe Hill.
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Terence
edit- [feeling remorseful for what he had done to Finney and Gwen earlier, sobbing] I'm so sorry. I'm... I'm so sorry. Please forgive me.
Dialogue
edit- [The next morning, Finney hears Terence brutally flogging Gwen with the belt and rushes in to see the horrid scene]
- Gwen: I'M SORRY!!
- Finney: [furious] DAD, STOP!!
- Terence: [points the belt at Finney] HEY!! You stay out of this! Gwenny, they came to my work. Why did the police come to my work?! [flogs Gwen]
- Gwen: [screams] I don't know! I'm sorry!
- Terence: You need to tell me what you know about this investigation!
- Gwen: Nothing!
- Terence: Tell me what... What?
- Gwen: Nothing!
- Terence: Huh?!
- Gwen: NOTHING!!
- Terence: WHAT?!
- Gwen: [grabs the vodka bottle and hangs it over the kitchen floor] NOTHIIIIING!!!!! Hit me again, and I'm dropping it!
- Terence: [raises the belt in a menacing and vicious manner] You drop that, and I will beat your ass twice as hard. [Gwen drops the vodka bottle and it shatters on the floor, spilling vodka and Terence shoves Gwen face-down to the floor]
- Finney: NO, DAD!!!
- Terence: It was an $8 bottle of goddamn vodka! Oh, now, you listen to me! Listen to me! YOU... ARE NOT... YOUR MOTHER!!!!
- Gwen: [sobbing] I know.
- Terence: That means you do not hear things that are not there! You do not see things that are not there!
- Gwen: Okay!
- Terence: They're not there, Gwenny!
- Gwen: Okay.
- Terence: And your dreams, they're just fucking dreams. Do you understand me?
- Gwen: Yes!!
- Terence: Do you understand me?!
- Gwen: Yes!
- Terence: Say it! I want to hear you say it!
- Gwen: My dreams are just dreams!!
- Terence: SAY IT AGAIN!!!
- Gwen: [raising voice] MY DREAMS ARE JUST DREAMS!!!
- Terence: Say it again!
- Gwen: [furiously] MY DREAMS ARE JUST DREAMS!!!!!!
Cast
edit- Ethan Hawke - The Grabber
- Mason Thames - Finn "Finney" Blake
- Madeleine McGraw - Gwendolyn "Gwen" Blake
- Jeremy Davies - Terrence Blake
- E. Roger Mitchell - Detective Wright
- Troy Rudeseal - Detective Miller
- James Ransone - Max
- Miguel Cazarez Mora - Robin
- Brady Hepner - Vance Hopper
- Tristan Pravong - Bruce
- Jacob Moran - Billy
- Banks Repeta - Griffin
External links
edit- The Black Phone quotes at the Internet Movie Database