Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterFinally, something scarier than the COVID-19 delta variant has come out of CinemaCon 2021.Universal Pictures unveiled a packed trailer for its upcoming Blumhouse horror thriller “The Black Phone” on Wednesday, during a presentation to the annual convention of movie theater owners in Las Vegas.Reuniting Ethan Hawke with his “Sinister” writer-director Scott Derrickson, the project is adapted from a short story by Joe Hill.
Hawke delivers a bone-chilling performance as an unnamed villain, a character he said breaks with his “no bad guys” rule while introducing the clip.“The Black Phone” follows an abducted boy “locked in a basement that’s stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children.
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