Chilling First Trailer for BLACK PHONE 2 - "Dead Is Just a Word"
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer and poster for Scott Derrickson’s horror film Black Phone 2, and it sees the return of Ethan Hawke’s villainous character The Grabber, who is haunting Finney (Mason Thames) and Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) from beyond the grave.
This looks like it’s going to be a pretty creepy sequel. I loved the first film, and I’m excited to see how the next chapter of this story plays out!
The director previously described the film as “a high school coming-of-age movie in the same way that the first movie was a middle school coming-of-age film."
The creator of the story, Joe Hill, said: "There have been some really, really good conversations about a sequel. And the thing is, as soon as I saw the mask, which was designed by Tom Savini and Jason Baker, as soon as I saw the mask I thought, 'If this film is a hit, there'll be a sequel,' because the mask is so iconic.
“It is like Freddy Krueger's glove, it is like Michael Myers' mask, it is this thing where it's the imagery, iconic imagery, that haunts people's sleep.
“And, look, in horror, guys like Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, and Frankenstein, and Dracula, none of these guys stay buried. They all claw their way out of the grave for a sequel and then a threequel."
He continued, "There have been talks about how to do a sequel that wouldn't suck. How to do a sequel that doesn't cheapen the film that came before, that's still scary, that's still intense, that feels organic.
“And those conversations have been pretty good. But if I were to provide any details, Scott and [writer C. Robert] Cargill would lock me in the basement in the film, and that's it.
“And the phone doesn't work. As you know, the phone doesn't work. I can't call anyone to get out. So I would decline to offer any real granular details about the possible sequel."
The Black Phone 2 in theaters on October 17, 2025.
