Black Phone 2 Trailer is Here And It’s Absolutely Haunting!

How persistent can you be in the most desperate of situations? The Black Phone is all about consistency and the energy you give to NOT give up, no matter what.

2025 is the year of horror, and Black Phone 2 has been on our horror list for a while now. Its trailer for the sequel has just landed, which has given us nightmares for a long time. Black Phone 2 trailer has recently been released, and the post will dissect all the meaning that we could infer for the upcoming flick. 

Plot details of Black Phone 2

The story is set four years after the 13-year-old Finn (played by Mason Thames) was abducted by The Grabber (played by Ethan Hawke). Since The Grabber was dead and Finn escaped him somehow, the sinister abductor had other plans.

Four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke is playing the most threatening role of his career. He is coming from his grave to haunt Finn’s sister, Gwen (played by Madeleine McGraw), in her dreams.

She dreams of getting phone calls from the ringing black phone with some disturbing vision of three boys in a winter camp who are being stalked.

She convinces Finn to do something about it and asks him to visit the winter camp in a storm. Some unsettling truths about The Grabber and his family are revealed over there. Finn realizes he is now against a killer who has grown stronger and more evil than he could ever imagine. 

Watch the trailer here:

The film’s story is based on a short story originally written by Joe Hill, who is now its executive producer. Scott Derrickson co-wrote the script with C. Robert Cargill.

It was announced at the CCXP Festival in Mexico City that a sequel to The Black Phone is coming. The horror film has worldwide gross earnings of up to $161 million. 

What does the Black Phone 2 trailer show?

Somehow, The Grabber has an uncanny semblance with Freddy Krueger, who has the power to haunt your dreams. The trailer gives several hints that dreams are the highlight of his hauntings. 

There is a scene where his victim is seen choking in bed, which indicates that he has the power to enter anyone’s dreams, even after his death. Ethan Hawke as The Grabber does not shy away from clarifying, “Vengeance…is…mine.” 

Despite no disclosure of his real power having been made, the narrative directs us to expect that he has power over his victim’s dreams, which further strengthens his position in the villain world. Darker, deadlier, and more twisted.  

Director’s vision for the film

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the director Scott Derrickson cited that he wasn’t interested in making the sequel to The Black Phone (2021) until Hill called him one or two months after the film’s release.

Hill explained to Derrickson that he had ideas for the sequel, and he had worked out his timelines quite well. Derrickson was impressed that Hill had it all planned, as the story now shows high school students who were first middle-school kids.

As the story unfolds tale after four years, they have definitely grown up. But the genre has changed as well. The first part was a supernatural thriller, and this one is pure horror.

Derrickson said, 

“It is certainly more violent, scarier, more graphic…And part of that is because of the age of the kids.” [Source]

Scott Derrickson is known for making horror content that takes fun in slow-burning content rather than explicit overt actions. Escalating tensions and fear in the scenes is the expertise that Derrickson is known for, and that is what he aims to infuse in this part too, but with sharper horror visuals.

This time, he has planned more violent visuals for the newer generation as the audience has also grown and has enjoyed films that have a heightened sense of fear and movies that show the expression of individuality through extreme content.  

He knows that with great graphics technology that is growing better each day, he can push the boundaries of horror. The visceral thrill of such content makes such flicks more enjoyable and exciting for the viewers, giving more graphic appeal to the explicit horror content of today.

 

 

 

 

 

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When is Black Phone 2 releasing?

Black Phone 2 is slated for release in theatres on October 17, 2025, by Universal Pictures and Blumhouse.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, Miguel Mora, Anna Lore

Director: Scott Derrickson

Writers: C. Robert Cargill, Scott Derrickson, Joe Hill

Producers: Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, Jason Blum

Release date: October 17, 2025

Movie runtime: – –  

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