With The Black Phone releasing soon, Ethan Hawke has been promoting the horror movie lately. In an interview with /Film, he spoke about what makes a film in the genre separate itself from the bad and become something worthy of the scares.
“Making a good horror film is a lot like solving a geometry problem,” the actor said. “There’s a math to a building. It has to be simple enough, complicated enough. People write books about [Alfred] Hitchcock and the timing and the way the cuts work. There’s just a math to it. Scott’s a very elegant filmmaker. I feel like this script was even better than Sinister, and it’s more mature filmmaking. He makes good movies.”
The upcoming horror movie pushed Ethan Hawke into one of his darkest roles. He plays a serial killer who abducted his latest victim, played by Mason Thames (For All Mankind). The boy must figure out a way to free himself, and he finds help from the ghosts of past victims. The story is based on the short story by Joe Hill, the son of Stephen King, who has become a master of all things spooky like his father.
Ethan Hawke Reunited With Sinister Team for a New Horror Movie
To make this horror movie, Ethan Hawke reunited with Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, who he worked with on Sinister. In the interview, he spoke about what it was like to work with Derrickson on the adaption of this short story.
“Well, Scott is in love with cinema and all the best directors that I’ve worked with,” he said. “When I did Sinister with Scott, he kind of reawakened that passion in me. I loved acting for him. My character in Sinister was a really interesting challenge for me as a performer. I like the way he thinks about movies. I like being in front of his camera because he’s just in love with it.”
The Black Phone releases in theaters on June 24th.