I feel like we are in a time and age where everything that's different and doesn't follow a generic movie scheme automatically gets praised to the maximum. I just left the theater and I'm really confused about all the high praises giving this movie a 8/9/10 rating. This movie is a solid 6 in my opinion. I felt it didn't have me at the edge of my seat, the plot was pretty straight forward, no big twists or turns I didn't see coming and it wasn't horror to me. 2-3 jump scares don't justify this being called horror. It's a thriller. A good one time watch thriller, but a bad horror movie, if that's what you want to label it. The plot development was pretty foreseeable and the movie really was missing a backstory and explanation. I felt like I left unsatisfied and wanting more out of everybody's characters. You just get thrown into the movie and the town and certain habits of people and they expect you to just accept it without any explanation. This movie was a solid 6 but that's about it to me. Sorry...
Review of The Black Phone
