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  • I finally answered the BLACK PHONE 2!

    I finally answered the BLACK PHONE 2!



    Just got out from seeing The Black Phone 2 in theaters–a little late i know..

    I have to say, I’m writing this with that fresh post-movie buzz. Honestly, this might be a little horror masterpiece of 2025. It picks up where the last film left off, and we dive right back into Finn’s world.. yeah, the same Finn who beat the Grabber the first time around.

    This time around we have a different Finn and a very different atmosphere.. There is no feeling of victory here.. no hero mentality. Instead we have a mass amount of trauma..

    What makes this sequel really shine is how it plunges us into life after trauma. We see Finn, his sister with her eerie psychic dreams, and their dad, who’s still got plenty of issues of his own. There’s guilt, stress, and a whole lot of darkness everyone’s carrying around. The movie does an incredible job showing how these characters are dealing (or not dealing) with their inner demons.

    There was something this movie did very well: It drew us into the darkness with it. Seeing the theater in a dim theater is a perfect coupling of the atmosphere. You feel the bleakness and the depth of personal stress these characters are being forced to embrace..

    And let me tell you, the dream sequences? Absolutely breathtaking. They pull you into this surreal, otherworldly atmosphere that just hits different. You’re not just watching a horror movie; you’re feeling every ounce of the characters’ emotions.

    It’s dark, yes, but it’s also one of those films where you end up genuinely loving the characters. There is actually some depth to them, and not some void of mindlessness that horror films can give us. This time around, there as no playing around. We have grit and bluntness.. we had desperation and big issues. This movie did not shy away and stay safe. It dares to be different and, in the end, despite having a few little continuity issues for me, it became an instant hit. When a movie hits you emotionally, especially a horror film, you know it did something right.

    By the end, you’re rooting for them, and that’s not something every horror movie pulls off. So if you can, catch it in a theater—let that darkness just surround you. It’s totally worth it.

    See this in a theater while there is still a chance.

  • Black Phone 2 rings off the hook at box

    Black Phone 2 rings off the hook at box

    The Black Phone 2 took the top spot at the weekend box office, marking a much-needed success for Blumhouse Productions. After a series of stumbles, this sequel proves that horror — when done with grit and style — still packs a punch with audiences.

    The movie is connecting with several demographics, from teens to longtime fans of the first film. It’s eerie, tense, and grounded — the kind of horror Blumhouse built its reputation on.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone 2 delivered horror maestro Jason Blum a major win, opening to a better-than-expected $26.5 million domestically from 3,411 theaters and $15.5 million from 72 international markets, for a global debut of $42 million.

    Not bad for a film made on a relatively modest $30 million budget.

    The movie’s debut follows a string of misses for the Universal-based banner — including the pricey flop M3GAN 2.0 earlier this year — making this victory especially sweet for Blumhouse.

    If the studio can keep the momentum going, the next big win could come from Five Nights at Freddy’s Part Two, which already has massive fan anticipation building online.

    For now, though, The Black Phone 2 is ringing loud and clear — and audiences are answering.

  • The grabber calls home: BLACK PHONE 2 trailer looking great

    The grabber calls home: BLACK PHONE 2 trailer looking great

    The Black Phone 2 Trailer Hints at a Darker, More Haunting Sequel

    The Black Phone was a divisive horror film—some praised it, others didn’t connect with it. But here at our site, we were firmly Team Black Phone. We thought it was well-written, well-acted, and surprisingly uplifting by the end, especially for a horror movie.

    Now comes The Black Phone Part 2, and based on the trailer, it doesn’t look like it’s aiming for the same “feel-good” conclusion. In fact, things are looking much darker this time around.

    Ethan Hawke returns as The Grabber, though this time he appears in a postmortem, ghostly form. From what we’ve seen so far, the sequel has a vibe that’s more reminiscent of A Nightmare on Elm Street—think Freddy Krueger haunting dreams—than the gritty realism of the first film.

    If you remember, in the original, it was the ghosts of the Grabber’s young victims who helped keep one child alive and ultimately brought about the villain’s downfall. This time, it seems the Grabber’s ghost is turning the tables, haunting the survivor in terrifying ways.

    The trailer is intense—unrelentingly so. And if the full movie delivers on what this preview promises, The Black Phone Part 2 could very well end up being the horror movie of 2025.

  • You should really see the BLACK PHONE in a movie theater

    You should really see the BLACK PHONE in a movie theater

    This weekend’s box office number 1 is expected to be ELVIS.. the biopic audience is skewing mostly female, and mostly over the age of 55.. But BLACK PHONE is surging beyond expectations..

    Box office numbers developing.

    But we have a message about BLACK PHONE: We highly encourage anyone who has not seen this film to experience it in a theater, with an audience. This movie should be taken seriously.

    It’s not filled with cliched horror jump scares.. It doesn’t have messy dialogue but intensely realistic and gritty ‘how it really was’ style acting about this period of time in American history.

    Nostalgia lies .. sometimes things were not so pretty to be a kid in the 1970’s or 80’s when a big threat that adults didn’t seem to care much about was kidnapping.

    And finally, the ‘horror’ of Black Phone is more akin to the horror of a crime flick–though in this case the police are neither bumbling but ultimately make importantly bad mistakes.

    See it with an audience because, without revealing spoilers, it is sure fun to experience the final dramatic and traumatic scene of the movie with others who have sat through each other minute of tension with you in the same room.

    (from left) The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) and Finney Shaw (Mason Thames) in The Black Phone, directed by Scott Derrickson.

    The release is amazing–the ability that this film had to deeply disturb your soul but also calm it at the end is amazing.

    Ethan Hawke was plain out horrifying in this movie. Exceptionally creepy.. Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw carried the entire movie so well.

    The acting is amazing.. the story line was incredible.. and that mask? That awful creepy mask?

    A new Halloween costume has been born..

    This movie is great. . There is just about nothing to criticize with Black Phone..

  • New BLACK PHONE trailer released

    New BLACK PHONE trailer released

    The movie just looks amazing..

    From popular decriptions:

    Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

    Directed by Scott Derrickson, who is no stranger to horror having helmed 2005’s  The Exorcism of Emily Rose and 2012’s Sinister, the film is co-written by Derrickson alongside C. Robert Cargill (who worked with Derrickson on Doctor Strange, and the Sinister franchise), and is based on the award-winning short story by Joe Hill from his New York Times bestseller 20th Century Ghosts.

  • Black Phone shifts

    Black Phone shifts

    Scott Derrickson’s supernatural horror film The Black Phone was previously slated to hit theaters on February 4, 2022, but Universal Pictures announced today that the release of the film has now been pushed back to June 24, 2022.

    There is no official word why the shift has occurred. However, the Omicron Variant and fears about crowd at movie theaters in the middle of winter might be playing into it.