Black Phone 2 is a scarier and more successful sequel, but its reinvention of the Grabber into a supernatural entity helps him become a modern Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. Blumhouse has made not just waves, but full-on tsunamis, when it comes to their impact on the horror genre. Over the past 15 years, Blumhouse […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Black Phone and Black Phone 2. If Gen X has a boogeyman, it’s arguably the Man in the Windowless Van. Alongside memories of blissfully roaming unsupervised suburbs are warnings to avoid anyone in this particular vehicle lest you wind up on the side of a milk carton. […]
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Returning director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, V/H/S/85) and co-writer C. Robert Cargill didn’t plan to make sequel Black Phone 2 unless a great idea came along that excited them. That’s when author Joe Hill called. “He just said, ‘A phone rings, Finney answers, and it’s The Grabber calling from hell,’” Cargill tells Bloody Disgusting. That was the spark that […]
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Discover the secret behind the mask with a new Black Phone 2 poster illustrated by Matt Ferguson. Ethan Hawke returns as The Grabber on October 17 via Blumhouse and Universal. As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, his headstrong 15-year-old sister, Gwen, begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and […]
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“It’s interesting trying to play the dead.” Ethan Hawke‘s return as The Grabber is the focus of the new Black Phone 2 featurette below. “The scares are so much more extreme this time around,” promises co-star Madeleine McGraw. The horror sequel opens in theaters on October 17 from Blumhouse and Universal. As Finn, now 17, struggles with […]
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Tickets are now on sale for director Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2, and Universal has released the final trailer for the horror sequel in celebration. It’s loaded with rave early reviews for The Grabber’s second movie, while also promising a savage return from the depths of Hell. Black Phone 2 is rated “R” for “Strong violent content, gore, teen […]
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It was announced earlier this year that Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone is getting a sequel, and Deadline reports today that Ethan Hawke will be back as The Grabber. Actors Mason Thames (How to Train Your Dragon, Incoming), Madeleine McGraw (Toy Story 4, Secrets of Sulphur Springs), Jeremy Davies (Justified) and Miguel Mora (The Black Phone) are […]
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Director Scott Derrickson’s Joe Hill adaptation The Black Phone was a hit in theaters last year, so it comes as no big surprise that The Black Phone 2 has officially been confirmed. Universal and Blumhouse will release The Black Phone 2 on June 27, 2025! No word yet on whether or not Derrickson will return […]
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On October 13, 1972, members of the Old Christians Rugby Football Club from Montevideo, Uruguay chartered a flight across the Andes mountains for an exhibition game in Chile. The plane crashed into the high mountain peaks initially killing 16 and leaving 29 stranded in the wreckage. 72 days later, 16 survivors emerged from the mountains, […]
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Obsession is weird, right? Taken too far in one direction, it creates dogged saviors. But too far in the other way breeds psychos and killers. Like Alfred Hitchcock, Scott Derrickson seems intimately curious about people driven by their inability to let things go. Ethan Hawke plays two sides of this coin, first in Sinister and […]
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Ten years after director Scott Derrickson, writer C. Robert Cargill and star Ethan Hawke made horror magic together with Sinister, they’ve done it again with Blumhouse and Universal’s The Black Phone, released in theaters nationwide over the weekend. Not only has The Black Phone debuted to strong reviews, but it’s overperforming at the box office […]
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The next big horror movie to arrive in theaters here in 2022 is Scott Derrickson‘s (Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Doctor Strange) The Black Phone, which is headed to theaters on June 24. An adaptation of Joe Hill‘s short story, the film features four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke in the most terrifying role as “The Grabber”, who is […]
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The phone is dead… and it’s ringing in Scott Derrickson‘s (Sinister, Doctor Strange) new horror movie The Black Phone, and Blumhouse has debuted a brand new trailer today. The adaptation of Joe Hill‘s short story comes to theaters on June 24. You can watch the brand new The Black Phone trailer below, which gives us […]
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Bloody Disgusting’s The Northman review is spoiler-free. “I will avenge you, Father. I will save you, Mother. I will kill you, Fjölnir.” The eponymous character repeats this mantra from childhood, immediately after witnessing tragedy, well into adulthood. It focuses his primal rage, directing his hate and tying his fate to a singular mission of revenge. The […]
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This spoiler-free “Moon Knight” review is based on the first three episodes. The marketing behind the latest Marvel series arriving on Disney+ has promised an atypical, genre-bending introduction to a new superhero entering the MCU. It certainly helps that, outside of the comic realm, Moon Knight remains a lesser-known character, therefore a mystery. The talent behind the […]
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