Overview

• Universal Pictures and Blumhouse released a fresh trailer on September 4 that reiterates the October 17 theatrical opening.
• The footage portrays Ethan Hawke’s Grabber as a posthumous, dream-haunting villain who targets teens.
• Finney and Gwen receive black‑phone visions tied to Colorado’s Alpine Lake Youth Camp during winter, setting off a new investigation.
• Scott Derrickson directs from a script by Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Joe Hill, with Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw returning.
• Derrickson says the follow-up leans harder into horror, describing it as more violent, scarier and more graphic than the original.