Overview
- The Blumhouse and Universal sequel opens in U.S. theaters on Oct. 17, with India release on Oct. 31 via Warner Bros. Discovery.
- Ethan Hawke’s Grabber returns as a supernatural, dream‑stalking threat in a 1982 story set at a snowbound Alpine Lake camp.
- Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill advanced the project after Joe Hill’s “calling from hell” pitch, drawing on Dante’s Inferno for a cold vision of hell.
- Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw return with Hawke, joined by Demián Bichir and Arianna Rivas; practical prosthetics shape the villain, and Atticus Derrickson scores.
- Critics praise the visual design, dream sequences, and lead turns while citing clunky plotting, pacing issues, and overt religious framing for a mixed‑to‑positive outlook.