Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Black Phone 2, the sequel to the hit 2021 horror thriller Black Phone starring Ethan Hawke ...
The sequel loses the small-scale, intense focus in favor of The Conjuring-level supernatural effects and action. At its best, it’s much scarier than the first movie. But it also comes with a level of ...
After The Black Phone delivered such a clever adaptation of Joe Hill’s short story of the same name back in 2022, it was hard to imagine what the creative team of Scott Derrickson and C. Robert ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Black Phone 2, starring Ethan Hawke and Mason Thames, is coming soon to streaming video on ...
This review is based on a screening which took place at the 2025 Fantastic Fest Film Festival. Black Phone 2 will be released theatrically in the United States on October 17. The Grabber returns in ...
Returning to the scene of the crime four years later, Black Phone 2‘s co-writer and director has upped the stakes for the sequel. Scott Derrickson, who created the Blumhouse franchise with C. Robert ...
Ethan Hawke gets his Freddy Krueger on in a bloody horror sequel from director Scott Derrickson that’s heavily indebted to the “A Nightmare on Elm Street” series. The Super 8 (and modified Super 16) ...
MONDAY AM UPDATE: The suspense as to who won one of the year’s lowest-grossing weekends has ended, and it was Universal/Blumhouse’s Black Phone 2 all along coming in with $8.3 million, off 35% from ...
Director Scott Derrickson brings an evocative analog texture to keep the scares coming from Ethan Hawke's (now-dead) devil-masked killer. Derrickson has no choice but to adapt, which he does quite ...