NEED TO KNOW
- Ethan Hawke is back as the serial killer The Grabber in Black Phone 2, a sequel to his 2021 horror hit The Black Phone
- The new movie follows onscreen sibling duo Mason Thames and Madeline McGraw four years after the events of the original movie, as The Grabber seemingly returns from the dead to continue tormenting the pair
- Black Phone 2 is in theaters Oct. 17
Ethan Hawke is bringing his terrifying horror villain back to the big screen.
Universal Pictures has released the trailer for Black Phone 2, the sequel to 2021’s horror hit The Black Phone from writer-director Scott Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill. The new movie is set four years after the events of The Black Phone, in which lead character Finn (Mason Thames) is kidnapped by Hawke’s The Grabber and ultimately communicates with the serial killer’s past victims in order to escape.
According to an official synopsis for the movie, The Grabber now “seeks vengeance on Finn from beyond the grave” by menacing Finn’s younger sister, Gwen (Madeleine McGraw.)
“As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, the headstrong 15-year-old Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake,” the synopsis reads. “Determined to solve the mystery and end the torment for both her and her brother, Gwen persuades Finn to visit the camp during a winter storm.”
Per the synopsis, Gwen “uncovers a shattering intersection between The Grabber and her own family’s history” when she and Finn visit the camp. “Together, she and Finn must confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.”
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The Black Phone became a box office hit upon its 2021 release, with several critics praising its thrilling tone and the rare villainous turn from Hawke, 54.
“I’ve always had this theory that when you teach an audience how to see the demon inside you, they don’t unsee it for the rest of your career. Jack Nicholson can be playing an accountant and you’re still waiting for him to explode like he did in The Shining,” Hawke said in an Entertainment Weekly interview at the time. “But I realized I’m on the other side of 50 and it’s time to put a new tool in the tool kit. Villains might be my future.”
Black Phone 2 is in theaters Oct. 17.
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