The Black Phone

The Black Phone is a 2021 American horror film in which, 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.
 * Directed by Scott Derrickson. Written by Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, based on the 2004 short story of the same name by Joe Hill.

Don't talk to strangers.

Terence

 * [feeling remorseful for what he had done to Finney and Gwen earlier, sobbing] I'm so sorry. I'm... I'm so sorry. Please forgive me.

Dialogue

 * [The next morning, Finney hears Terence brutally flogging Gwen with the belt and rushes in to see the horrid scene]
 * Gwen: I'M SORRY!!
 * Finney: [furious] DAD, STOP!!
 * Terence: [points the belt at Finney] HEY!! You stay out of this! Gwenny, they came to my work. Why did the police come to my work?! [flogs Gwen]
 * Gwen: [screams] I don't know! I'm sorry!
 * Terence: You need to tell me what you know about this investigation!
 * Gwen: Nothing!
 * Terence: Tell me what... What?
 * Gwen: Nothing!
 * Terence: Huh?!
 * Gwen: NOTHING!!
 * Terence: WHAT?!
 * Gwen: [grabs the vodka bottle and hangs it over the kitchen floor] NOTHIIIIING!!!!! Hit me again, and I'm dropping it!
 * Terence: You drop that, and I will beat your ass twice as hard. [Gwen drops the vodka bottle and it shatters on the floor, spilling vodka and Terence shoves Gwen face-down to the floor]
 * Finney: NO, DAD!!!
 * Terence: It was an $8 bottle of goddamn vodka! Oh, now, you listen to me! Listen to me! YOU... ARE NOT... YOUR MOTHER!!!!
 * Gwen: [sobbing] I know.
 * Terence: That means you do not hear things that are not there! You do not see things that are not there!
 * Gwen: Okay!
 * Terence: They're not there, Gwenny!
 * Gwen: Okay.
 * Terence: And your dreams, they're just fucking dreams. Do you understand me?
 * Gwen: Yes!!
 * Terence: Do you understand me?!
 * Gwen: Yes!
 * Terence: Say it! I want to hear you say it!
 * Gwen: My dreams are just dreams!!
 * Terence: SAY IT AGAIN!!!
 * Gwen: [raising voice] MY DREAMS ARE JUST DREAMS!!!
 * Terence: Say it again!
 * Gwen: [furiously] 'MY DREAMS ARE JUST DREAMS!!!!!!''

Cast

 * Ethan Hawke - The Grabber
 * Mason Thames - Finn "Finney" Blake
 * Madeleine McGraw - Gwendolyn "Gwen" Blake
 * Jeremy Davies - Terrence Blake
 * E. Roger Mitchell - Detective Wright
 * Troy Rudeseal - Detective Miller
 * James Ransone - Max
 * Miguel Cazarez Mora - Robin
 * Brady Hepner - Vance Hopper
 * Tristan Pravong - Bruce
 * Jacob Moran - Billy
 * Banks Repeta - Griffin