Yahoo

The Black Phone 2: Everything to Know Before Watching The Black Phone Sequel

Ring! Ring! Are you ready to answer the call of The Black Phone 2? Directed by Scott Derrickson, who co-wrote the script with C. Robert Cargill, the 2025 sequel picks up four years after the original ...
Yahoo

‘Black Phone 2’ Review: The Grabber May Be Gone, but His Ghost Is Still Calling in Hypnotic Extension of Retro Franchise

Not that long ago, while talking horror movies with an Asian film critic, I mentioned that ghost stories (especially the Japanese kind, where spirits haunt the living until some unresolved injustice ...
Digital Trends

Ethan Hawke teases his role as The Grabber in The Black Phone

The Black Phone takes place in the late ’70s, a time before the internet and Amber alerts. From what we can infer about The Grabber, he’s been killing children for a long time before he captures ...
TheWrap

‘The Black Phone 2’: The Grabber Is Now On the Phone in First Trailer

Jason Blum hit the CinemaCon stage Wednesday in a “Five Nights at Freddy’s” costume to discuss the three sequels on the Blumhouse slate and introduce clips from each — including “The Black Phone 2.” ...
IGN

Black Phone 2 Review

This review is based on a screening which took place at the 2025 Fantastic Fest Film Festival. Black Phone 2 will be released theatrically in the United States on October 17. The Grabber returns in ...
collider

Did Ethan Hawke's Grabber Die in 'The Black Phone'? Everything You Need to Remember Before ‘Black Phone 2'

Gaby Shedwick is a senior author for Collider, joining in December 2023. During her undergraduate Sociology degree at the University of Warwick, she found a real love for horror cinema, writing her ...
nerdist

A Zombie Grabber Haunts Us in the BLACK PHONE 2 Trailer

Just when we thought the Grabber was gone for good. He and his terrifying mask are back. He’s dead in our world, but that doesn’t mean his power is gone. In Black Phone 2, it looks like he’s an attack ...
Polygon

Exclusive: Get a sneak peek at the Grabber's new victim in Black Phone 2

The interviews The brain behind QWOP has spent 20 years perfecting the art of failure Inside Pluribus, a Better Call Saul reunion so secret its star can barely explain it Final Fantasy Tactics remake ...
collider

'Black Phone 2' Expands the Grabber's Lore in a Familiar Way for Horror Fans: "We Made a 'Nightmare on Elm Street' Movie"

Four years ago, Finn (Mason Thames) killed his abductor and escaped, becoming the only survivor of Ethan Hawke's Grabber, but true evil transcends death. In Black Phone 2, Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) ...
Empire

Black Phone 2 Trailer: Dead Is Just A Word As The Grabber’s Spirit Strikes Back

With our first look at Black Phone 2, the definite-article-free sequel to The Black Phone, we got confirmation of a strong premise for Scott Derrickson’s follow-up: since serial killer The Grabber ...
Variety

‘Black Phone 2’ Review: The Grabber May Be Gone, but His Ghost Is Still Calling in Hypnotic Extension of Retro Franchise

Director Scott Derrickson brings an evocative analog texture to keep the scares coming from Ethan Hawke's (now-dead) devil-masked killer. Derrickson has no choice but to adapt, which he does quite ...