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. The hit horror film Black Phone 2, the sequel to the 2021 hit Black Phone, starring Ethan ...

In horror, we often hear about the scream queens, with names like Jamie Lee Curtis and Heather Langenkamp coming to mind. More and more, we're also seeing some established scream kings. Kyle Galler is ...

Rating: R for strong violent content, gore, teen drug use, and language. Runtime: 114 minutes In fact, Black Phone 2 is Derrickson’s most mature film to date and sits among the few horror sequels that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

Set four years after the events of The Black Phone, the sequel finds Finney and Gwen completely changed by their previous ordeal. Unable to cope with the trauma of being kidnapped and forced to kill ...

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 ...