In 2022, horror duo Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill of Sinister fame teamed to adapt Joe Hill’s short story The Black Phone. Things wrapped pretty conclusively in that one, but you can’t keep a good Grabber (Ethan Hawke) down it seems, because he’s back in a sequel coming this fall.
The first film saw Finn (Mason Thames) kidnapped by the Grabber and stuck in a room with a rotary phone that could contact ghosts of the killer’s previous victims. With their help, Finn killed the Grabber and reunited with his family. In anticipation for Black Phone 2, Blumhouse’s released three teasers that let you know the Grabber’s returned and set his sights on kids at Colorado’s Alpine Lake Youth Camp during the winter.
“The phone is ringing again. Are you going to answer?”
We just got a text that included the first tease for BLACK PHONE 2! Only in theaters this October. pic.twitter.com/ckfgKx9nUT
— Fandango (@Fandango) May 31, 2025
“We’re going to die out here.”
A third video teasing BLACK PHONE 2 just arrived in the form of another mysterious text message… on our phone 😱 pic.twitter.com/vjrS9xguDQ
— Fandango (@Fandango) May 31, 2025
Each of the teasers contain grainy shots of the snow-covered camp and its various facilities, photos of young boys kidnapped and what remains of them after the Grabber’s finished. (One victim’s left in the ice, another folded under a bed, and the third has half his face burned and appears throughout all of them, either looking at the camera or appearing and disappearing without a word.) Each teaser also has a single word flash onscreen, which spell out the phrase “Word is Just.” Finally, there’s a phone booth somewhere on the premises with its own black phone, which keeps ringing and is waiting for someone to answer.
Back at April’s CinemaCon, Universal showed off Black Phone 2 footage teasing the Grabber is using the titular phone to come back and haunt the surviving kids from the previous movie. If that’s the case, he certainly hasn’t lost a step, and we’ll find out what other tricks he’s got up his sleeve when the film releases October 17.
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