Director: Scott Derrickson

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, Mason Thames

Synopsis:

Four years ago, 13-year-old Finn killed his abductor and escaped, becoming the sole survivor of The Grabber. But true evil transcends death … and the phone is ringing again. As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, the headstrong 15-year-old Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake.

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Not that long ago, while talking horror movies with an Asian film critic, I mentioned that ghost stories (especially the Japanese kind, where spirits haunt the living until some unresolved injustice from their past can be rectified) don’t really scare me, because ghosts aren’t real.

Oh, but they are, she insisted, suggesting that she may have encountered them herself. What my Chinese colleague can’t understand is Americans’ obsession with slasher movies. Now that’s a genre that does nothing for her, since serial killers seem as far removed from her culture as ghosts do from mine.

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