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The Black Phone
Film
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Black Phone 2
Directed by Scott Derrickson
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… From TMDB
252 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 2, 2026 · How this works
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Black Phone 2 is a 2025 horror thriller film, directed by Scott Derrickson, starring Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw and Ethan Hawke.
- 203 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Oct 27, 2023 to Nov 1, 2026
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60 of 252 · most liked firstI want to send a heartfelt thank you to every last one of you glorious mother fuckers who went out this weekend and took a chance on our movie. Thank you SO MUCH for going out and making BLACK PHONE 2 part of your weekend. It means the world. Truly.
positive · AI labelView post →Man, thanks to everyone out there sharing love for BLACK PHONE 2. Were super proud of the film and so happy so many of you who saw it dug it. Much love and thank you! Can’t wait for the rest of you to check it out!
positive · AI labelView post →Super proud that we'll be world premiering our latest film BLACK PHONE 2 at my favorite film festival in the world, FANTASTIC FEST! Can't wait for my favorite audience in the world to see what we've been working on for so long!
positive · AI labelView post →For those of you who still haven’t seen our latest movie, BLACK PHONE 2 is now available on Netflix! As the sun goes down tonight, maybe make a bowl of popcorn, turn out the lights, and give us a chance to scare the shit out of you. www.netflix.com/title/81957167
positive · AI labelView post →Those of you still social distancing or waiting to take BLACK PHONE 2 out for a spin in your home theater rejoice! The film is now available for "In Theater" home rental & purchase! $19.99 to rent - or for five bucks more you can own it (what a bargain!) But we're still in theaters the world over!
positive · AI labelView post →If anyone at the premiere tonight heard a “THAT’S FUCKIN’ RIGHT!” yelled during the end credits of BLACK PHONE 2 where it declared that the movie cannot be repurposed to train AI, that was me.
positive · AI labelView post →Horror Season if FULL effect,,, my man and good guy @crobertcargill.bsky.social gots his new movie BLACK PHONE 2 OUT TODAY,!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Much love to every one of you who went out to see BLACK PHONE 2 this weekend, making us once again the number one movie in America! You guys fucking rule.
positive · AI labelView post →Next movie. I have two out this year. THE GORGE and BLACK PHONE 2.
neutral · AI labelView post →First teaser for ‘BLACK PHONE 2’ reveals the film is set at a winter camp, with the phone conversations now happening in a telephone box Ethan Hawke’s character also skates across ice to kill in one scene See the full footage description: bit.ly/UniDF25
neutral · AI labelView post →saw Black Phone 2 under the most ideal conditions imaginable: late at night in an empty, spooky theater. loved this one even more than the first - evidently a big sucker for a grainy, wintry feature-length recreation of a sleep-paralysis episode with a crushing soundscape.
positive · AI labelView post →Real talk, it is never not weird to get spam email from streamers you subscribe to, advertising your movie. In a related story, if you have Peacock, you have Black Phone 2 now!
neutral · AI labelView post →Our next film is BLACK PHONE 2, coming this October!
neutral · AI labelView post →If you see one movie this weekend (and haven't seen it yet) consider BLACK PHONE 2. If you're game for two movies this weekend (or have seen BP2) DEFINITELY check out my buddy Chris Stuckmann's film, SHELBY OAKS. Scary as hell and fucking rips. Made Jess jump out of her seat (which she doesn't do).
positive · AI labelView post →BLACK PHONE 2 began principal photography today! Every day on the set of the first film, I would sit down next to Scott and say "Okay, hear me out," and he'd take me serious for a moment before I'd say "Black Phone 2: Please Hold" or "Black Phone 2: Call Waiting" or "Black Phone 2: Party Line."
neutral · AI labelView post →Holy cheese and crackers! Check out NIGHT FLIGHT+ for a dedicated BLACK PHONE 2 streaming channel of horror and cult films hand picked by Scott Derrickson himself. And watch for our Night Flight nod when you see Black Phone 2 in theaters next week! www.nightflightplus.com/videos/night...
neutral · AI labelView post →If you need another reason to see BLACK PHONE 2 this weekend (you shouldn't, I hear it's great) the trailer for Sam Raimi's new movie SEND HELP will be in front! If I wasn't supposed to say that you didn't hear it from us. See you there @crobertcargill.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →THANK YOU and also I saw billboards for BLACK PHONE 2 at Universal Studios Hollywood and I MUST SEE THIS FILM.
positive · AI labelView post →‘BLACK PHONE 2’ has its fair share of bone-chilling moments, but it’s still a major downgrade from the first film. Find out more in our review... discussingfilm.net/2025/10/02/b...
neutral · AI labelView post →I absolutely loved BLACK PHONE 2. Strong sequel that blends elements of the first film with some Nightmare on Elm Street. Performances are outstanding and I love the places this story takes us. #FantasticFest via @dailydead.bsky.social dailydead.com/fantastic-fe...
positive · AI labelView post →I’ll be honest: Took me awhile to get into BLACK PHONE 2, which doesn’t have the elegant simplicity of the first film and is more of a slow burn. Having finished it, I believe it to be a wildly ambitious, formally interesting, & emotionally rich sequel. Bravo to @crobertcargill.bsky.social & co!
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Phone is a decent horror flick, but Black Phone 2 is multitudes better. Really leans way more into a surreal dream logic that you only got glimpses of in the first film, plus great soundtrack that captures both the era (early 80s) and the vibe (fucked up).
positive · AI labelView post →CONGRATS to my pal @crobertcargill.bsky.social, co-writer of the current #1 US film, BLACK PHONE 2! Loved seeing some of my Lotería Grande Cards make a very cool cameo. Did you spot any others? El Mundo & El Venado are sold out. Get the others before they’re gone! 1/2 johnpicacio.com/product-cate...
neutral · AI labelView post →OK you might want to watch CURTAINS this weekend anyway due to the homage in Black Phone 2 but now you can also do it in memory of Samantha Eggar, who also had the honor of starring in the best Cronenberg movie. RIP to a great one.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good news. Black Phone 2 is pretty damn good. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blac...
neutral · AI labelView post →⛸️🪽⛽️🐌 #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky Black Phone 2 (2025) Dream Demon (1988) Night of the Living Dead (1990) Ænigma (1987)
neutral · AI labelView post →Starring Ethan Hawke as the back-from-the-dead villain known as The Grabber, BLACK PHONE 2 topped the domestic box office over the weekend with $26.5 million in 3,411 theaters. The first film debuted with $23.6 million.
neutral · AI labelView post →I really dug BLACK PHONE 2! Love how weird and dreamy and violent and aggressively stylistic it is. And I’m a sucker for a movie that takes bold swings. It’s a fucking cool movie!
positive · AI labelView post →BLACK PHONE 2 has more Lotería Karma than any film ever. Word on the streets is my Lotería Grande Card artworks are featured in the film, opening Oct. 17th. 😮 If you want any of my remaining card singles, get ‘em now. johnpicacio.com/product-cate... Bonus Karma to @crobertcargill.bsky.social. ✊🏽
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Black Phone 2 🎬🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm skeptical about The Black Phone 2 since the first one was a B+ movie with an A+ villain performance, but the choice to just turn the Grabber into Freddy Krueger is a good one. leave the old premise behind. This is Nightmare on Grabber Street now
neutral · AI labelView post →“CONGRAT” to @crobertcargill.bsky.social @scottderrickson.bsky.social @maggielevin.bsky.social and the whole BLACK PHONE 2 team for a well-earned wrap on a much-anticipated film. Now show it to me NOW. (Or you know, whenever it’s ready.)
neutral · AI labelView post →As Drew said, we have the director of BLACK PHONE 2, the number one movie in America, on the pod today - Mr. Scott Derrickson. Great picks, great chat. Wanna be a completist? Go back a few weeks and listen to our episode with @crobertcargill.bsky.social, too. Stick it in your ears! (Respectfully.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Great decision to pick a dark, isolated winter setting. The Grabber is such a cruel villain, I love watching Finn and Gwen fight him off. Loved the cast, dream sequences, visuals, score. Watch it in theaters! #filmsky My ★★★★ review of Black Phone 2 on @letterboxd: boxd.it/bqcM1x
positive · AI labelView post →This is a shot of The Grabber ice-skating towards his next victim, an actual, for real, actual thing that occurs in the horror film BLACK PHONE 2. A thing that does NOT occur in said film: The Grabber screaming “TOOOOOOE PIIIIIIIIIIICK!” as he sets about ax-murderin’ folk. Opportunity: MISSED.
positive · AI labelView post →Loved the first one and have not seen this yet, so I'm very excited to be able to review the Blu-ray release of BLACK PHONE 2. Review coming soon. #filmsky #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching before I go and see The Black Phone 2 tomorrow The Black Phone (2021) Dir: Scott Derrickson #Movies #Film #Horror
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Phone 2|2025 www.imdb.com/title/tt2964... 📽️ #NowWatching #filmsky #horrormovies
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw BLACK PHONE 2, the self-serious, excessively solemn new horror sequel. By far the best and most pleasurable part is the climax, where the film drops the Gloomy Gus act and basically becomes A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 meets Ice Capades, with a homage to CURTAINS thrown in for good measure.
neutral · AI labelView post →The How to Train Your Dragon live action film has probably ruined Black Phone 2 for me because now all I see is Hiccup getting harassed by Ethan Hawke
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw Black Phone 2 and Ethan Hawke kills it—literally and figuratively—in a film that goes for the heart, literally and figuratively, just as much as all the other body parts. GenZ has their own Freddy Kruger. Kudos to Scott Derrickson & @crobertcargill.bsky.social for a good time in the theater
positive · AI labelView post →As someone who has massive struggles with insomnia and sleep paralysis nightmares, the way they pull the sensation off in Black Phone 2 by use of sound and film stock is dead on.
positive · AI labelView post →I have a pet peeve with theaters. Black Phone 2 was almost as quiet as “A Quiet Place.” I was a little annoyed at how loud the movie in the theater next door was.
neutral · AI labelView post →Testifying to the popularity of BLACK PHONE 2 — this film debuted last October and I *still* receive regular messages from people saying, “Hey! I just saw BLACK PHONE 2!! Did you know your Lotería Cards are in the movie???” (A: Yes, I do.)
neutral · AI labelView post →The most popular movie in the UK isn't Tron: Ares, Black Phone 2, or One Battle After Another, it's Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie!!! (cue glitter bombs). A cheeky bunch of animated kitties for the kids, Gloria Estefan and Kristin Wiig steal the show for adults. 3/5 film-authority.com/2025/10/25/g...
neutral · AI labelView post →Holy shit...holy shit...I'm trying to digest Black Phone 2. @crobertcargill.bsky.social and Scott Derrickson and anyone else involved made a film which had so much more depth than a lot of people may realize.
positive · AI labelView post →BLACK PHONE 2: not a Canadian film, but was filmed in Canada & at one point reminded me of this freaky scene from Canadian slasher movie CURTAINS (1983) which co-stars Samantha Eggar & Linda Thorson (aka Tara King) & also features a seminal severed-head-in-the-toilet-bowl moment (not shown here).
neutral · AI labelView post →BLACK PHONE 2 (2025) Streaming: January 16, 2026 Peacock #BlackPhone2 whentostream.com/black-phone-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Phone 2 is imo way better—more mythologically and cinematically interesting—than the (decent) original. A fun horror movie with a good final boss battle and a great performance from Madeline McGraw.
positive · AI labelView post →"The Grabber is one of those great horror villains in that the character features a single fantastic design choice that can spawn a whole franchise." Can it carry a whole movie? Kind of! @sonnybunch.bsky.social reviews "Black Phone 2": www.thebulwark.com/p/black-phon...
neutral · AI labelView post →New #BloodSplatteredVlog! 📽️ This week The Horror Guru & Count Jackula review BLACK PHONE 2! A chilling sequel to the 2021 child abduction haunter THE BLACK PHONE, in which the survivors of the original are haunted by The Grabber's ghost! #Horror #JoeHill #BlackPhone2 youtu.be/6QT-Fq7v39U
neutral · AI labelView post →Just got out of the theater seeing BLACK PHONE 2…your man @crobertcargill.bsky.social & his partner in fright #ScottDerrickson & everyone just rocked my socks, man. Absolutely stellar and gripping (Grabber of a…?) film. Can’t wait to see again. Cool of you to boost it…love how you lift people up.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowSeated The Black Phone 2 (2025) Dir: Scott Derrickson #Movies #Film #Horror
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching BLACK PHONE 2 (2025). Director: Scott Derrickson. Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke. You can't fool me!!! I saw the 1st movie, there's NO WAY Ethan Hawke is in this movie! Why is his name on the poster? Must be a mistake! #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Last four watched: - Hamnet - Black Phone 2 - The Bride! - The Woman with the Hungry Eyes (Theda Bara documentary) #LetterBoxdFriday #LastFourWatched #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →I am giving away the digital code for BLACK PHONE 2. Quote post this and tell me why you want to see the movie and I will randomly pick a winner tomorrow at 5pm EST. #filmsky #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →That you for your support C. Robert Cargill, co-writer of successful well received Hollywood film Black Phone 2.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now rewatching: Black Phone 2 (2025)! 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Ring, ring, ring... Quick! It's time to find out what @crocketthoughton.com thought about Black Phone 2. 👻📽️ Have you seen it? How do you think it compared to the first movie? Tell us your thoughts. www.frightaboutnow.com/p/black-phon...
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Phone 2 is a decent enough film but not near as amazing as people said. It's filmed well and has a great score but the script still felt a bit clunky and inconsistent in places.
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