The Black Phone
Halloween is almost here which means it's time for all things scary. To celebrate, we're reviewing a horror movie released in June called The Black Phone. Or as we call...
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Episodes (5)
#390 – Pearl (2022)
Set in rural Texas 1918, Pearl is the prequel to Ti West’s X in which we see how the titular character came to be so unhinged.
On this week’s episode…
Join the crew as we discuss A24, Mia Goth and the second installment in Ti West’s peculiar trilogy, Pearl (2022).
Show Notes:
Housekeeping (4:04)
Back of the Box/Recommendations (8:50)
Spoiler Warning/Full Review (13:07)
Rotten Tomatoes (64:23)
Trivia (71:19)
Cooter of the Week (75:55)
What We’ve Been Watching (84:48)
Hotline Scream (101:40)
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#377 – The Black Phone (2022)
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.
On this week’s episode…
Join the crew as we discuss Joe Hill, Ethan Hawke and Madeleine McGraw in Scott Derrickson’s, The Black Phone (2022).
Show Notes:
Housekeeping (5:45)
Back of the Box/Recommendations (13:28)
Spoiler Warning/Full Review (16:55)
Rotten Tomatoes (71:02)
Trivia (76:46)
Cooter of the Week (81:18)
What We’ve Been Watching (89:06)
Hotline Scream (98:38)
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Sinister with C. Robert Cargill
Today on the show, we’re joined by screenwriter and novelist C. Robert Cargill. In 2012, Cargill and frequent collaborator Scott Derrickson put a chill down the spines of audiences with a supernatural horror that was low in budget but sky-high in imagination. Sinister saw Ethan Hawke star as Ellison Oswalt, a washed-up true crime writer who goes to extreme lengths to reignite his career. After moving his wife and kids into the small-town home of a recently murdered family, whose gruesome killing remains unsolved, he discovers in the attic a box. In it are a collection of unsettling home videos that hint at a demonic conspiracy at play. As Ellison closes in on the truth, a terrifying entity closes in on him.
The film put Cargill and Derickson on a path towards bigger projects – a Marvel movie, 2016’s trippy Doctor Strange soon followed. It’s easy to see why they were suddenly in demand. Sinister is a brutally effective masterclass in horror filmmaking that shows the power of a screenwriting philosophy Cargill swears by. The key to telling an engaging horror tale is to write a gripping grounded drama that’s then gatecrashed by a supernatural other, he explains in this episode, also delving into the origins of the film’s Bablyonian deity antagonist, Bagul the eater of Children, and all the ways Sinister evolved en route to the big screen. For example, did you know Sinister was originally titled Super 8 and presented Bagul as a “fucked up Willy Wonka” as Cargill puts it?
Support for today's episode comes from Screencraft, WeScreenplay and Caveday.
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