2022 · drama · horror · mystery
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Directed by John Lee Hancock1h 45m2022
Craig, a young boy living in a small town befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone.
Our read: Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · horror · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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“You want a quiet Stephen King story about grief, phones, and revenge without jump scares.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if you need real horror; this is mostly melancholy coming-of-age with brief dread.
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