Black Phone 2
Dead is just a word.
Four years after escaping The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.
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Overall Score: 40%
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Freddy Krueger calling. Says he already did the swing around stuff.
Damn. Now I have to re-watch the first Black Phone because I can't remember what it was all about. I can't even remember if Gail (Madeleine McGraw) was in the first film and, if she was, did she have the little boy haircut. Why didn't she object to that haircut? No harm. This film has zero, absolutely none that I saw, crazy leftist propaganda in it.
I enjoyed it. Kind of annoyed that they did the whole "Nightmare on Elm Street" dream thing. The film isn't all too original, like it takes pieces from many horror movies, but there's a plot to keep us entertained, blood and a creepy Ethan Hawk.
Black Phone 2 has an evil entity that I really like, you know, there are horror movies where you just hate the evilness running around but this movie, very much like Nightmare on Elm Street, has a bad guy who's cool. Who's up for some Grabbin'! I'm The Grabber! I wasn't hoping for him to win and get out of hell, but I was neutral. If Black Phone 2 monster got out of hell and killed everyone, I'd be cool with that. It does kind of take itself seriously, so that's a minor deduct, but it's a good film all around.
Created: 11-06-2025
I forgot how much I hated the first one until I started watching this one. I will say this one is maybe a little better than the first one but that's not
saying much. There's nothing really woke, other than maybe the focus switch from the brother to the sister who now sports a terrible boys haircut and looks like a 12 year old boy. Maybe that's why the grabber went for his this time, he got confused. The acting is ok about the same as the first one but the writing again sucks. This is a blatant ripoff of Nightmare on Elm Street right down to getting hurt in your dreams hurts you in real life. There's even a ripoff scene of her friends watching her fight the invisible grabber in her sleep and getting thrown around. It's unoriginal nonsense. There is some decent blood and gore FX but it's
pretty much all ghosts in dreams. The Grabber is pretty ineffective and nothing really happens to anybody until the very end of the movie. There's no scares and despite a decent performance by Hawke the Grabber is just not scary. The ice skating scene is unintentionally hilarious looking. If there is another one of these I don't think I
will be wasting my time. Unless I forget again how bad they are.
Created: 12-06-2025
