Halloween is just around the corner, you can tell that on Netflix too. While shockers such as “Friday the 13th”, “A Nightmare On Elm Street” and “Paranormal Activity: Die Gezeichten” were already released in the subscription to the streaming service on October 1st, the next horror story is already awaiting today. From now on you can watch the Stephen King adaptation “Mr. Stream Harrigan’s Phone. This goes back to the novel of the same name by Master Of Horror back, which was published in 2020 in the anthology “Bloody News”.
“Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” by John Lee Hancock, who has helped Sandra Bullock win an Oscar in the past with “Blinde Side – The Great Chance”, but also “Alamo”, “Saving Mr. Banks” or “The Founder”. has set. Hancock previously collaborated with Netflix on the atmospheric old-school thriller The Highwaymen, which follows Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson in pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde. You can find out whether the cooperation is fruitful again with “Mr. Find out Harrigan’s Phone.
In “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone follows Craig (Jaeden Martell), a teenager growing up in a sleepy small town, who forms an unlikely friendship with reclusive billionaire John Harrigan (Donald Sutherland), based largely on their shared love of reading. When Harrigan suddenly dies, Craig then finds that he can still communicate with him over a phone.
Who a horror or even splatter festival of “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” is expected to be severely disappointed. Although the story has supernatural elements (and something about “The Black Phone’ with Ethan Hawke), this is more of a somewhat gentler horror piece that also sees itself as a coming-of-age story. The confrontation with life and death is at the center of the story.
Joining Martell (“ES”) and Sutherland (“The Hunger Games” franchise) are Kirby Howell-Baptiste (“Sandman”), Joe Tippett (“Mare Of Easttown”), Colin O’Brien (“Wonka”) ) and Thomas Francis Murphy (“Terminator Genisys”). The screenplay is by director John Lee Hancock. The film was produced by Dahmer creator Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum (“Halloween Ends”).
