In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to remember that dead is just a word and whatever you do don’t fall asleep as we review the 2025 sequel “The Black Phone 2”…
In 2021, director Scott Derrickson and writer C. Robert Cargill unleashed the film “The Black Phone” into theaters based on the 2004 short story from Joe Hill about a boy named Finney who is kidnapped by a mask-wearing serial killer known only as The Grabber and his only path to survival involves answering a mysterious phone that connects him with his tormentor’s past victims.
The movie earned good reviews and made more than $160 million at the box office but the filmmakers never intended to return for a sequel.
But that all changed after Hill called them with a very simple premise — ‘A phone rings, Finney answers and it’s the Grabber calling from hell.’
That was the spark that ignited a flame inside the writer and director to craft a sequel that takes place four years after the original as Finney desperately tries to move on with his life but finds little success and his sister Gwen soon starts experiencing nightmares that connect her back to the man who kidnapped her brother despite him being very dead.
Now the siblings are forced to face off with a whole new kind of evil when the Grabber comes back for them both …
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to remember that dead is just a word and whatever you do don’t fall asleep as we review the 2025 sequel “The Black Phone 2”…
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