Overview

• Universal and Blumhouse released the inaugural Black Phone 2 trailer on June 2, introducing the sequel’s shift toward supernatural horror.
• Ethan Hawke reprises his masked killer, The Grabber, now a malevolent ghost menacing Mason Thames’s Finney and Madeleine McGraw’s Gwen alongside returning and new cast members.
• Set four years after the original, the film follows the siblings to Alpine Lake Youth Camp where a black payphone becomes the portal for the Grabber’s vengeful spirit.
• Director Scott Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill have embraced a high school coming-of-age horror theme that intensifies violence, scares and graphic imagery.
• The trailer positions Black Phone 2 as the launch of a new horror franchise under Universal Pictures and Blumhouse.