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In The Black Phone, The Grabber abducts six victims — here's a breakdown of who they are and everything the movie reveals about them. At the opening of The Black Phone, only three boys have been abducted by The Grabber, with abductions four and five quickly following, ultimately culminating in Finney being the final victim taken by The Grabber. Information surrounding these previous victims is communicated to the protagonist Finney through the titular phone, which sits in The Grabber's basement. Though The Grabber tells Finney the phone doesn't work, he begins to hear it ringing and, when he answers it, he hears the voices of The Grabber's former victims.

With their collective help, Finney is able to get the upper hand and kill The Grabber. While Finney is the protagonist of the movie, The Black Phone is almost more of an ensemble film because The Grabber's former victims play such a key role in his demise.

Here is the complete cast of The Black Phone. The latest horror film from director Scott Derrickson and Blumhouse Productions, The Black Phone, tells the story of a horrifying killer, known as "The Grabber," and his latest in a long line of victims. Evoking a similar vibe to stories and shows such as Stephen King's It and Stranger Things, The Black Phone combines childhood nostalgia with bloody horror for a truly spine-tingling tale. The Black Phone cast is full of recognizable faces, some old and some new.

Based on the short story of the same title from author Joe Hill, The Black Phone is set in a small, suburban Colorado town in 1978. The serial killer known as "The Grabber" has already claimed the lives of five victims, and when 13-year-old Finney Shaw awakes in a soundproof basement after being abducted, he quickly realizes he has become victim number six.

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[This story contains spoilers for The Black Phone.]

It’s been 10 years since Sinister’s creative team delivered one of Blumhouse’s earliest low-budget success stories, but the trio of C. Robert Cargill, Scott Derrickson and Ethan Hawke have answered the call yet again with The Black Phone.

Blumhouse and Universal’s latest supernatural horror film opened to a stellar 23 million this past weekend, and writer-producer Cargill is especially grateful considering a 2022 release wasn’t originally in the cards. Cargill first met Derrickson at a time when he was a still film critic, and during a life-altering get-together in Las Vegas, Cargill pitched Sinister to the filmmaker, initiating their now long-running creative partnership. Sinister would go on to make nearly 30 times its 3 million production budget, and the duo was then recruited by Marvel Studios to helm 2016’s Doctor Strange.

Despite a box office haul of nearly 700 million and critical acclaim,...

This review of “The Black Phone” was first published June 19, 2022, after its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

The creepiest (and best) moments in the kiddie-kidnap horror pic “The Black Phone” take full advantage of the movie’s basic setup: a suburban teen gets abducted and then struggles to escape his captor’s sound-proof basement.

That scenario, co-adapted from a Joe Hill (“NOS4A2”) short story by director Scott Derrickson (“Doctor Strange”) and co-writer C. Robert Cargill, folds neatly into the mini-trend of quasi-nostalgic horror-adventures that both “Stranger Things” and the 2017 “It” adaptation brought back into vogue.

Derrickson and Cargill successfully tailor their focused and mostly compelling narrative to a Steven Spielberg/Amblin Entertainment–esque bit of Stephen King–sploitation. There’s nothing in “The Black Phone” that you can’t also get in more inventive recent King adaptations (like “Doctor Sleep”) or King-like homages.

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