Mr. Harrigan’s Phone Review The Dead Phone (2022) Behind the Horror and Horror There’s Hidden Growth When Some Relationships Cannot Be Separated From Each Other You can watch it today on Netflix.
Mr. Harrigan’s phone. Dead man’s phone It’s a film that lets audiences know that sometimes horror movies don’t always need a scary scene, just to add atmosphere. Letting the story go on indefinitely is equally disturbing to the audience.
For the film Mr. Harrigan’s Phone was directed by a master of “John Lee Hancock” (John Lee Hancock), who had directed the famous film in the past. The Blind Side (2009), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), The Founder (2016) And Men in the street (2019) be the director this time This could be called his first directing of a horror film.
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Another good thing about Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is that the script is an adaptation of King If It Bleeds, the latest installment in Stephen King’s horror novel series, which was released in 2020, and also stars like Jaeden Martell, who played Bill Denbrough in the film. IT IT emerges from hell to play the main character of the story
just not enough The film’s other lead actor is Donald Sutherland, who plays the film’s president Snow. The hunger games he also joined the set. It can be called a confrontation between the two actors.
| Synopsis Mr. Harrigan’s phone Dead phone
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is the story of a boy named Craig who is hired to read a book at the home of the wealthy old Mr. Harrigan. Finally the best friends of different ages
It’s safe to say that coming home from Mr. Harrigan’s reading is what gave Craig a break from bullying at school. With the close friendship of these two Get Craig to buy an iPhone for Mr. Harrigan as a gift.
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and then came the day of pain When Harrigan died suddenly. On the day of Mr. Harrigan’s funeral Craig buried the iPhone he bought for the old man along with his soulless body of him.
Since Mr. Harrigan’s death this time. It made Craig’s life more blurred. He could no longer bear the feeling of loss. Craig then sent a message to Mr. Harrigan’s iPhone. After a few moments, a message was sent back.
It turns out that Craig is now able to contact the late Mr. Harrigan via a cell phone. After that, a lot of other strange things happened. It is a mystery that Craig must continue to solve. Why did a dead man’s call go straight to his phone?
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As for the viewing score of this movie, it shouldn’t be higher than 5/10 because the whole movie has almost nothing. The first half of the story was extremely slow, tying everything up to the mystery. and transcend age but has not untied a single knot
Fortunately, the film has two actors from the old and the new generation helping to carry the whole story forward. This is enough to make the film “watchable”, because neither the plot, the script, the supporting characters, the supporting actors, nothing is as good as it should be by horror movie standards.
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And with the film’s theme and original novel by master horror writer Stephen King, audiences are now fully anticipating the horrors of horror. But when looking at the end, nothing as expected in the end, causing Mr. Harrigan’s phone to be devastated by criticism. and got a score of only 6.1 / 10 from the IMDb website
Considered the worst horror movie for Halloween 2022, it could become a permanent stigma attributed to director John Lee Hancock. But if anyone wants to test if this movie is really bad like many reviews. You can watch it today on Netflix.
