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Gizmodo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Ring, Ring! It's the First ‘Black Phone 2' Trailer
Ethan Hawke is back and terrorizing some more kids in Blumhouse's 'Black Phone 2.' Those weekend teases had to lead up to something, right? Blumhouse unveiled a full first look at Black Phone 2 during its CCPX panel, and if you've ever wanted to see Ethan Hawke ice skate toward someone he intends to murder, this sequel will be for you. With main baddie the Grabber (Hawke) dead, the sequel picks up years after the first, the now teenage Finney (Mason Thames) and Gwen (Madeline McGraw) Blake dealing with another Colorado winter. Soon, Gwen finds herself dreaming of the Grabber's lair and three young boys who've been killed dead at Alpine Lake Youth Camp. Using a black payphone near the camp, the Grabber calls the teens up saying he's looking to kill them: either in their dreams or potentially in the real world, he's gonna get his revenge. Talking to THR, returning director/co-writer Scott Derrickson called Black Phone 2 a ghost story like its predecessor, but one where 'the ghost is the villain.' And with the kids aged up, he and co-writer C. Robert Cargill were excited to 'ratchet up the intensity,' since Finn and Gwen in high school makes for a 'more violent, scarier, more graphic' film. Black Phone 2 hits theaters on October 17 and also stars Jeremy Davies, Anna Lore, Arianna Rivas, Miguel Mora, and Demián Bichir. Hell has frozen over. #BlackPhone2 is calling, only in theaters October 17 — Blumhouse (@blumhouse) June 2, 2025
Gizmodo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘The Black Phone 2' Dials In Some Ominous Teasers
In 2022, horror duo Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill of Sinister fame teamed to adapt Joe Hill's short story The Black Phone. Things wrapped pretty conclusively in that one, but you can't keep a good Grabber (Ethan Hawke) down it seems, because he's back in a sequel coming this fall. The first film saw Finn (Mason Thames) kidnapped by the Grabber and stuck in a room with a rotary phone that could contact ghosts of the killer's previous victims. With their help, Finn killed the Grabber and reunited with his family. In anticipation for Black Phone 2, Blumhouse's released three teasers that let you know the Grabber's returned and set his sights on kids at Colorado's Alpine Lake Youth Camp during the winter. 'The phone is ringing again. Are you going to answer?' We just got a text that included the first tease for BLACK PHONE 2! Only in theaters this October. — Fandango (@Fandango) May 31, 2025 'We're going to die out here.' A third video teasing BLACK PHONE 2 just arrived in the form of another mysterious text message… on our phone 😱 — Fandango (@Fandango) May 31, 2025 Each of the teasers contain grainy shots of the snow-covered camp and its various facilities, photos of young boys kidnapped and what remains of them after the Grabber's finished. (One victim's left in the ice, another folded under a bed, and the third has half his face burned and appears throughout all of them, either looking at the camera or appearing and disappearing without a word.) Each teaser also has a single word flash onscreen, which spell out the phrase 'Word is Just.' Finally, there's a phone booth somewhere on the premises with its own black phone, which keeps ringing and is waiting for someone to answer. Back at April's CinemaCon, Universal showed off Black Phone 2 footage teasing the Grabber is using the titular phone to come back and haunt the surviving kids from the previous movie. If that's the case, he certainly hasn't lost a step, and we'll find out what other tricks he's got up his sleeve when the film releases October 17.
