‘The Black Telephone 2’ Dials In Some Ominous Teasers

Replace (5/31/2025 @ 11 AM ET): Derrickson has posted a fourth, seperate Black Telephone 2 teaser displaying the Grabber’s lair within the authentic film has fallen aside since his demise. Grafitti on the partitions name for him to burn in hell, however the place may not be as deserted because it appears.

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— N O S ⋊ Ɔ I ᴚ ᴚ Ǝ ᗡ ⊥ ⊥ O Ɔ S (@scottderrickson) May 31, 2025

Authentic story: In 2022, horror duo Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill of Sinister fame teamed to adapt Joe Hill’s brief story The Black Phone. Issues wrapped fairly conclusively in that one, however you may’t hold Grabber (Ethan Hawke) down it appears, as a result of he’s again in a sequel coming this fall.

The primary movie noticed Finn (Mason Thames) kidnapped by the Grabber and caught in a room with a rotary cellphone that might contact ghosts of the killer’s earlier victims. With their assist, Finn killed the Grabber and reunited along with his household. In anticipation for Black Telephone 2, Blumhouse’s launched three teasers that allow you to know the Grabber’s returned and set his sights on youngsters at Colorado’s Alpine Lake Youth Camp throughout the winter.

“The cellphone is ringing once more. Are you going to reply?”

We simply bought a textual content that included the primary tease for BLACK PHONE 2! Solely in theaters this October. pic.twitter.com/ckfgKx9nUT

— Fandango (@Fandango) May 31, 2025

“We’re going to die out right here.”

A 3rd video teasing BLACK PHONE 2 simply arrived within the type of one other mysterious textual content message… on our cellphone 😱 pic.twitter.com/vjrS9xguDQ

— Fandango (@Fandango) May 31, 2025

Every of the teasers comprise grainy pictures of the snow-covered camp and its numerous amenities, pictures of younger boys kidnapped and what stays of them after the Grabber’s completed. (One sufferer’s left within the ice, one other folded below a mattress, and the third has half his face burned and seems all through all of them, both trying on the digicam or showing and disappearing with out a phrase.) Every teaser additionally has a single phrase flash onscreen, which spell out the phrase “Phrase is Simply.” Lastly, there’s a cellphone sales space someplace on the premises with its personal black cellphone, which retains ringing and is ready for somebody to reply.

Again at April’s CinemaCon, Common confirmed off Black Telephone 2 footage teasing the Grabber is utilizing the titular cellphone to return again and hang-out the surviving youngsters from the earlier film. If that’s the case, he actually hasn’t misplaced a step, and we’ll discover out what different tips he’s bought up his sleeve when the movie releases October 17.

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