horror · thriller · supernatural · trapped · ensemble cast · 1970s · suspense · survival · psychological · the black phone
The autumn chill of 1978 Denver sticks to the air as a black van skids to a stop. Inside, a delicate thirteen-year-old girl wakes with a pounding headache, her world already broken. A grown man lifts her without effort, whispering dark promises about her being 'special'—the first girl. He strips her clothes, forces her under a shower, and violates her under the pretense of a 'game,' washing her hair with a false tenderness before dressing her in an oversized gray hoodie. He shoves her down concrete stairs into a dim, cold basement. There, in the smell of fear and damp concrete, six boys watch: Vance, Bruce, Robin, Finney, Billy, and Griffin. Bruce kneels before her, his expression measured, trying not to frighten the terrified, bewildered child who still doesn’t grasp the horror that…