‘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 unique film has fallen aside since his demise. Grafitti on the partitions name for him to burn in hell, however the place won’t 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 possibly can’t preserve an excellent 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 telephone that would contact ghosts of the killer’s earlier victims. With their assist, Finn killed the Grabber and reunited together 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 telephone is ringing once more. Are you going to reply?”

We simply acquired 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 telephone 😱 pic.twitter.com/vjrS9xguDQ

— Fandango (@Fandango) May 31, 2025

Every of the teasers include grainy photographs of the snow-covered camp and its numerous services, photographs of younger boys kidnapped and what stays of them after the Grabber’s completed. (One sufferer’s left within the ice, one other folded underneath 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 and not using a phrase.) Every teaser additionally has a single phrase flash onscreen, which spell out the phrase “Phrase is Simply.” Lastly, there’s a telephone sales space someplace on the premises with its personal black telephone, 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 telephone to come back 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 acquired up his sleeve when the movie releases October 17.

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