'The Black Phone':  Shades of 'Pizza-Gate'?

Blue Moon is an upcoming American biographical musical drama film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Robert Kaplow. The film is a biopic of the later days of songwriter Lorenz Hart. It stars Ethan Hawke as Hart, alongside Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott.

The film is having its world premiere at the main competition of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, where it will compete for the Golden Bear, on 18 February 2025. Sadly despite my birthday, they didn't invite me to it. I doubt I could have made it even if they had. It's an awful long bike ride.

As it happens last night I caught another film on 'Film 4', Ethan stars in, called The Black Phone. The other stars are

• Mason Thames
• Madeleine McGraw
• Jeremy Davies
• James Ransone

Not really my first choice but what else are you to do to pass the night hours alone? It was premiered in 2021 at the height of the 'fabricated' global Covid nonsense and subsequent highly controversial vaccine roll-out. The following are promotional stills from the film. The imagery speaks for itself but was it intended to allude to other real-life (or death) events. As Michael Caine famously said, "if you want to tell the truth, write fiction".

It was based on a short story by Joe Hill born 1972 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_(writer) ) who it turns out comes from an horror genre aristocrat. His father is stephen King the noted horror book writer and as young as nine he appeared in the 1982 film Creep Show. He is a prolific and successful author. When the Pizzagate story broke he would have been forty-three although of course the whole issue of widespread covert child sexual abuse is much older.

The film was written and directed by Scott Derrickson born 1966 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Derrickson  He is quoted as saying that the film was very personal to him, as it had grown out of three years of therapy. He also said that it was a way for him to explore "the traumatic nature of [his] own childhood" the details of which have not been provided.  

It premiered at 'Fantastic Fest' on September 25, 2021, and opened in US theatres after several delays on June 24, 2022. It was an unexpected financial success, finishing its theatrical run grossing $161.4 million globally on a production budget of less than twenty million dollars. Presumably it will continue earning.

Based on a short story of the same name by Joe Hill, the script was written by Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill and directed by the former, was billed as a 'supernatural horror film'.  Based around the idea of a man called 'The Grabber' abducting, incarcerating (in a cellar), torturing and eventually killing adolescents, I suppose it lived up to its name. It resisted the temptation to incorporate sexual abuse, but the idea was definitely left handing like a bad smell. Was it meant to appeal to disreputable appetites? The money it made certainly suggests it appealed to many.

But was there a deeper layer of intrigue to the enterprise? Was it my febrile imagination, or was there clear allusion to fairly recent scandalous allegations relating to goings on in Washington involving child abduction and torture for sexual gratification of the political and commercial elite, known as 'Pizzagate'? 

It was a 'conspiracy theory'  that went viral during the 2016 American Presidential Election claiming that the NYPD had discovered a child abuse a ring linked to members of the Democatic Party while searching through Anthony Weiner's, a Demotrate politician convicted of sex crimes, emails. He resigned the same year (2011) the Prince Andrew/Epstein relationship was revealed.

Strangely but perhaps unsurprisingly, despite reports detectives and FBI agents were 'sickened' by the evidence they uncovered and undertakings by those agencies that 'all would be revealed', the whole topic and suggestion that it could have occured was first ridiculed and then rather miraculously shriveled away like a poisoned weed. No more was heard of likely prosecutions or convictions. All elements of the story were said to have been 'de-bunked' and shown to be without foundation. Lies in other words to discredit the Democrat Candidate, Joe Biden.

Instead attention turned to the proclivities of Jeffrey Epstein and his friendship with Prince Andrew. Of course this had the practical benefit of directing attention away from all the other 'friends' of Epstein and their possibly nefarious activities.  We all know the fate of both the central characters in this ominous soap opera and it wasn't pleasant for either of them - 'suicide' in the case of the former, permanent disgrace in the case of the latter - but were they, should they, have been those 'central characters', or were they just the 'fall guys' to protect a whole host of others?

The shot of the boy suspended appeared only briefly in the film. In fact if you blinked you would miss it but I manage to find the still. For anyone with the slightest knowledge of the Pizzagate affair could not miss the striking resemlance it has to the notorious hanging sculpture in the hallway of Tony Podesta the noted art collector.  

Here is another image of the same: 

Tony's brother, John Podesta served as White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and Counselor to President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015. Before that, he served in the Clinton Administration as White House Staff Secretary from 1993 to 1995 and Deputy Chief of Staff for operations from 1997 to 1998. Famously, in the search from Madeleine McCann this image of persons wanted for interview, bearing a striking resemblance to the brothers. This coincidence has never been explained.

All the other strange coincidences and links to the Democratic Party and top members of it have been well discussed, not least the central role played by Jeffrey Epstein, his Carribbean island, his multiple guests and youthful entertainers and his Mossad links. Bill Clinton well known for his denials, took multiple flights on Epsein's private jet and more than two hundred names have been linked to the late financier in Court papers still to be revealed. Although Trump was one of  them, it remains to be seen how much information will actually see the light of day. Certainly the highly suspicious circumstances surrounding Epstein's death, and despite the official narrative, has led many to believe he was murdered to keep a lid on the potentially explosive details.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/01/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-associates-list

Meanwhile returning to the 'Black Telephone' film, it is uncontrovertible that its subject matter of child abduction and torture panders to the worst and most depraved human desires and actions, but are the parallels with the claimed debunked Pizzagate scandal real or imagined? The most notable is the hanging body but there are many others. Check out the face in the Pizza Parlour painting not to mention the familliar Bahomet allusions. The Black Phone character is directed into the fridge from which he cannot escape. Why a fridge but an Alefantis fridge figured large in the Pizzagate affair. See below.

Fake pizza anyone?  https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=pizza

New York Times: 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/10/business/media/pizzagate.html

Unhappy Kappy ! https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=pizza+gate

Unidentified Flying Objects - Wikileaks John Podesta E-mails.

"Re: A few questions for VICE"  https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=podesta

Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal : https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-125877/