Just seeing the trailers for this movie I was absolutely stoked. It actually really creeped me out and few horror movies as of late really even scare me. I have a very short horror movie "go-to list" and it's not very long because so many movies just continue to destroy the genre.

Black Phone. For those who are unaware, this kid who's on his way home from school is abducted by a masked, psychopathic child murderer. He awakens in a basement after abduction, in a dark dark, locked prison made of cement and there is a disgusting mattress and a black payphone type phone on the wall. I assume the phone from the killer's perspective is just another form of his torture.

The phone, this kid discovers, is connected to the other victims of the killer. The victims whose lives he's already claimed. They in turn are trying to help this new child escape. This whole premise and idea to me was something fairly new and fresh. I was really excited to see how this played out and the more I watched the more I developed an idea of how I thought the movie was going to end up playing out. I thought I really had the plot twist on this one figured out. As I watched the movie play out and when it ended, to say I was disappointed would have been a huge understatement. I mean, they took all this time building this amazing plot and then the end feels like it's rushed and over with this terrorizing, monster of a person defeated as if he was nothing but a thought. I sat in disbelief, just wow. The idea I thought I had figured out about the movie ending was at least a thousand times better and would have been such an excellent plot twist. So, here goes...

There is a part in this movie with the boy trying to escape past the masked killer. The killer is in some sort of tortured dream state while sitting guard of the exit to the home on a chair or stool. He's like dozing but still very easy to wake if there's any noise or disturbance or he could very easily startle awake at any moment. If I remember correctly he's dreaming of abuse at the hands of his own father but I'm going to have to double check that tbh. And in that moment looking at him and how he acts towards the kid I was gripped by this idea that he in fact was this kid. Like the guy was actually coming face to face with himself as a child. The child version of himself was trying to break him out of this state of mental illness he had obviously been taken hold of. The battle as external as it appeared in my head it was just his internal battle with the true and original version of himself trying to get back to reality and stop the destruction he had been unleashing upon these innocent people. That to me also kind of could explain the psychic trauma bond the sister had where she could see what he was doing and the house where he was held captive in her dreams. I was like oh this dude is just seriously damaged from the abuse he suffered and this whole thing isn't real he's a damn mental patient. But no, he's just a dude who falls into this hole in the floor and gets whacked over the head by the kid he's kidnapped. Then it ends. I wanna know have there been movies such as these where people honestly really thought it was going to go one way and it instead just ends in the most boring and stupid way imaginable. Would the way you thought it was going to end have made for a much better finish? Tell me which movie and your ending idea. I'm so over these whack, rushed, unoriginal and off base stupid endings to what could have been an all around amazing movie. Let's here em...