The Black Phone (2021)

04 Jan 2023

Rating: 2/5

The most realistic part of this movie was the detectives relying on a child psychic for clues because cops regularly go to clairvoyants for unsolved cases and weirdly still have astronomically low clearance rates… 🤔

** Spoilers below ** … and most importantly, that plot line is meaningless beyond showing the ineptness of cops since the kid got out on his own

Ending reminded me a lot of Signs in that sort of “everything you’ve experienced has prepared you for this moment” way, but more so of Home Alone in the cartoony booby trap way


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