Black Phone 2

"Dead is just a word."

2025 1h 54m EN

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6.6

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72%

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METACRITIC

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6.1

IMDB

★6.6TMDB · 1,379🍅72%Rotten Tomatoes●61Metacritic★6.1IMDB · 58,077

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Synopsis

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Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

“Dead is just a word.”

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Cast

Mason Thames
Finn
Madeleine McGraw
Gwen
Ethan Hawke
Grabber
Demián Bichir
Armando
Miguel Mora
Ernesto
Jeremy Davies
Terrence
Arianna Rivas
Mustang
Maev Beaty
Barbara

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Scott Derrickson
Writers: Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, Joe Hill
Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 4.4× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released last year.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, Japanese, Spanish.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Black Phone Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Scott Derrickson, shot by Pär M. Ekberg. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Atticus Derrickson. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Louise Ford shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw and Ethan Hawke carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Scott Derrickson directs. Pär M. Ekberg behind the camera. Atticus Derrickson scores. Louise Ford cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Japanese, Spanish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 4.4× over at the box office.
2Released last year.
3Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, Japanese, Spanish.
4Part of the "The Black Phone Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Scott Derrickson, shot by Pär M. Ekberg. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Atticus Derrickson. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Louise Ford shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw and Ethan Hawke carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Dead is just a word.".
10IMDB entry: tt29644189 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 30 themes, including "mask", "child abuse", "dreams", "sibling relationship".
12Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Pär M. Ekberg
Original score: Atticus Derrickson
Editing: Louise Ford
Production design: Patti Podesta
Costume design: Amelia 'Amy' Andrews
Makeup / hair: Colin Penman
VFX supervisor: Ivan Moran
Stunt coordinator: Branko Racki
Runtime: 114 min · 1h 54m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $30,000,000
Box office: $132,675,749
Return: 442% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Black Phone 2 (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 72% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 61/100
IMDB rating: 6.1/10 · 58,077 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

8 nominations total

Part of

The Black Phone Collection

The Black Phone collection follows the grabber — a serial child murderer whose main goal is to torture and murder as many teenagers and children as he can. However, there is a mysterious black phone that rings in his basement. When answered, it allows the spirits of previous victims to speak to his latest victim to help give them tips on how to escape his grasp.

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MovieGuys2025-10-19
★ 6/10
As far as improbable sequels go, "Black Phone 2" isn't too bad. Revive a deceased bad guy you would have thought was done with and craft a tale that feels somewhat like the first film, blended with an almost "Nightmare on Elm Street" premise. I have to say these elements combined with a dash of nostalgia from the 80's works, quite well. Sure its not A grade horror but its still creative, creepy and above all, entertaining. In summary, a not unfamiliar but still well crafted tale of revenge from beyond the grave. Worth a look.
tmdb975548672025-10-23
★ 10/10
One of the best horror sequels that will go down as an instant classic in a couple of years I already feel like this film doesn't get enough praise for blending multiple horror franchises together, but still delivering something brand new that fits in the same world as the original film. It takes the classic camp setting but sets it in a blizzard (Friday The 13th meets The Shining). It explores dreams, the spiritual realm and the afterlife (A Nightmare On Elm Street meets Insidious meets Poltergeist). The story and tone are also much more in line with modern storytelling (Terrifier meets Hereditary). The soundtrack is also incredibly retro with a hint of child-like wonder. (Sinister meets Five Nights At Freddy's). I generally cannot express how well it all blends together to deliver a realistic portrayal of a spirit that escaped from hell. If you think The Grabber is just a Freddy Krueger rip-off, then you completely missed the point of the film.
CinemaSerf2025-11-06
★ 6/10
This is quite a decent icy thriller, but is hasn’t anywhere near the claustrophobic intensity of the first film from 2021. It is still Mason Thames who portrays the now seventeen year old “Finn”, convinced that he seen the last of the “Grabber” but still having nightmares about a phone ringing. To add to his sleeplessness, his sister “Gwen” (also still Madeleine McGraw) is having some fairly torturous nightmares that, coupled with some sleep-walking, are unsettling both of them. Determined to find out what is causing these traumas, they hook up with her fellow Duran Duran fan “Ernesto” (Miguel Mora) and head to the very Christian fellowship camp where their mum was a counsellor. They arrive just as the mother of all blizzards sets in, and so up to their elbows in snow and ice they have to piece together just what happened to half a dozen children reported killed at the place but never found, and establish whether or not the dastardly “Grabber” is still something to be reckoned with. The cold and frosty environment and half decent efforts from Thames and McGraw do help to keep this mystery rolling along, but despite some curious and menacing flashbacks that fill us in with what did and might happen, the story here just isn’t very solid or original. It takes far too long to get going, and the denouement - though quite action-packed, is all just too rushed and disappointing. I did quite like the barbed remarks aimed at the god-fearing/adoring “Barb” (Maev Beaty) and it’s all perfectly watchable, but it could easily lose twenty minutes to condense the plot and get us to the snowy sharp-end a bit more swiftly. Worth a watch, but not as good.