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2021 · Movie · R · your starting pointIf The Black Phone is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like The Black Phone, ranked
1. The Call (2013)
Director Scott Derrickson's craft of intimate, claustrophobic suspense returns in this cat-and-mouse thriller where survival depends entirely on a single phone connection between captor and rescuer.
2. Black Phone 2 (2025)
Director Scott Derrickson returns to expand his signature blend of grounded supernatural horror and teenage resilience, this time splitting the trapped-protagonist formula between siblings who must decode cryptic supernatural messages to survive a new killer's legacy.
3. Phone Booth (2002)
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' confined-space direction creates the same claustrophobic dread and supernatural phone-based salvation that powers this taut sniper thriller.
5. Girl in the Basement (2021)
Scott Derrickson's mastery of confined-space dread and supernatural salvation returns in this true-crime thriller where a girl trapped underground must summon inner resolve against her captor, trading spectral allies for sheer human willpower.
6. Horror Stories (2012)
The supernatural phone calls that guide The Black Phone's captive return here as the stories themselves—dark tales that become the abducted girl's only weapon against her captor, echoing that same claustrophobic terror and survival through otherworldly intervention.
7. The Cell (2000)
Director Tarsem Singh's surreal visual nightmare explores a killer's fractured psyche with the same claustrophobic dread and supernatural communication that defines the basement terror of The Black Phone.
8. Safe (2012)
Director Scott Derrickson builds supernatural dread through confined spaces and child endangerment in both films, using otherworldly communication as a lifeline for survival against overwhelming odds.
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