Ethan Hawke has fun scaring in "Black Phone"

• "Black Phone" features a creepy kidnapper of teenagers.

• Ethan Hawke manages to make it creepy despite wearing a mask.

• He appreciated the touching side of a scenario that emphasizes young protagonists.

Ethan Hawke is very scary in

Scott Derrickson's

Under a more than disturbing mask, he kidnaps then sequesters teenagers in his cellar until he comes across a tough victim whom his young sister endowed with paranormal powers is trying to find.

"It's impressive not to be able to read someone's facial expressions", explains the comedian to

.

The character he embodies only shows his face to attract his prey with a creepy clown disguise.

Scott Derrickson, who had already directed the actor in

, revives the horrifying atmosphere of this harrowing film.

A dose of humanity

The threat that the sadistic killer does not express with his features, he communicates it largely through his voice and body language as he shifts from fake gentleness to real violence.

"I rediscovered the childish joy of pretend play," says Ethan Hawke.

Her performance impresses against charismatic debutant Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw, seen in

.

We don't want to fall into the clutches of this big bad guy capable of tantrums as staggering as they are deadly.

“He justifies his crimes by the fact that he is suffering and that he wants to hurt people so that they share his pain,” insists Ethan Hawke.

The actor has taken care to breathe a dose of humanity into this evil character threatened by the ghosts of those he has killed as well as by the brotherly love that unites the two young heroes.

"That's what I liked about the script," says Ethan Hawke.

There is a heart of gold in this horror film that touched me.

Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill made the most of a short story by Joe Hill to emphasize the empathy that audiences feel for the protagonists.

Exorcising your fears

"These types of horrific stories and dangerous characters have always fascinated audiences," says Ethan Hawke.

Whether in

or around a campfire, we like to tell each other scary things.

is no exception to this rule by confronting the spectator with his intimate terrors: fear of the dark, of confinement, of pain... Although Ethan Hawke is amazing in a bogeyman, he does not see himself persevering in

this

domain.

“I'm not naturally drawn to the dark side,” he says.

His talent for personifying it would almost make us doubt it.

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