Reach out and touch someone

BLACK PHONE 2

2025

Directed by Scott Derrickson

Written by C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson

Spoilers: moderate (though I make some implications that could, conceivably, be construed as "high" spoilers)

You just use that... shin of yours to call me, and I'll come a-running

THE BLACK PHONE

2022

Directed by Scott Derrickson

Written by C. Scott Cargill and Scott Derrickson

Spoilers: moderate

Faces of death

SINISTER

2012

Directed by Scott Derrickson

Written by C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson

Spoilers: high

Lost horizon

DOCTOR STRANGE

There is so much in Doctor Strange that's almost great, and you wish it could just drag itself over that line; and, then, in the end, it finally manages to drag itself right onto that line, leaving you slightly confused about exactly how to score it.

2016

Directed by Scott Derrickson

Written by Jon Spaihts, C. Robert Cargill, and Scott Derrickson

With Benedict Cumberbatch (Dr. Stephen Strange), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Mordo), Tilda Swinton (The Ancient One), Benedict Wong (Wong), Rachel McAdams (Dr. Christine Palmer), and Mads Mikkelsen (Kaecilius)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Busting makes me feel good, but probably displeases the Lord

THE CONJURING

"The end result?  The Conjuring is fine, but like Insidious, while it may have its terrifying turns, it won't stick with you forever—or even overnight."

2013
Directed by James Wan
Written by Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes
With Vera Farmiga (Lorraine Warren), Patrick Wilson (Ed Warren),  Lily Taylor (Carolyn Perron), Ron Livingston (Roger Perron), approximately four hundred and ten pounds worth of interchangably good child actors (the five Perron and one Warren daughter[s], respectively)

Spoiler warning: moderate (but goes to high with a heads-up)

Finally, a movie about pop Catholic mythology that attempts to explain the theodicy behind a nominally omnipotent, nominally omnibenevolent God, that nonetheless lets other supernatural entities venture onto the material plane, manifest greater power within this world than I Am has been witnessed to wield since Old Testament days, and eat innocent people's souls, fundamentally contradicting basic Catholic soteriology: yeah, so I saw Prince of Darkness for the first time last year, and it was amazing.