The Black Phone

Set in a small Colorado town during the 1970s, The Black Phone plunges us into a dense and distressing atmosphere where fear has become a constant presence in the lives of local youth. The story centers on Finney Shaw, a shy and intelligent 13-year-old boy who becomes the latest victim of a mysterious masked kidnapper. This criminal has sown terror throughout the community with a string of disappearances that seem to have no solution.

Finney is abducted and locked in a hermetically sealed basement, completely soundproof. There, his screams cannot pass through the walls or reach anyone who might help him. With no apparent escape and time running out, the boy must confront not only his captor but also the growing sense of despair. Yet in the midst of this dark and hopeless setting, a strange and supernatural element emerges as his only hope: a broken, disconnected black phone hanging on the basement wall.

Against all logic, the phone begins to ring. When Finney answers it, he encounters something completely unexpected: the voices of the previous children who were kidnapped and murdered in that same place. Though their bodies are long gone, their spirits remain trapped in a limbo between life and death. Through the phone, these children reach out to Finney, offering him advice, warnings, and fragments of their experiences. Bound by a shared tragic fate, each of them becomes a guide, determined to help Finney survive and ensure that his story does not end like theirs.