The Black Phone: Joe Hill Explains the One Change To His Short Story

Joe Hill knows the power of a single word. That’s the main difference between the new movie adaptation of The Black Phone and his unsettling 2004 short story that inspired it. Otherwise, both tell the story of a young boy named Finney, who is kidnapped and imprisoned in a basement where a mysterious old telephone allows him to hear the voices (and potentially lifesaving guidance) of the serial killer’s previous victims. Hill has had several novels and comic books adapted before, among them Netflix’s Locke & Key, the Daniel Radcliffe movie Horns, and the AMC series NOS4A2, so he knows… Read Full Article