Official CritifyHub Review
This Call Has Been Forwarded to Elm Street
Black Phone 2 (2025)
Horror
Thriller
Director: Scott Derrickson | Runtime: 114 min | Language: en | Rating: 0.0
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Demián Bichir, Miguel Mora,
So, how do you make a sequel when your main villain is definitively dead? If you’re Black Phone 2, the answer is simple: you borrow Freddy Krueger’s playbook and hope he doesn’t call to ask for it back.
Scott Derrickson’s 2021 hit took Joe Hill’s short story and spun it into a claustrophobic trauma-machine, steeped in 70s grit and grime. It was grounded, tense, and Ethan Hawke’s The Grabber was a terrifyingly human monster behind that demonic mask. This sequel, in a commendable mo
