I’ll admit, when I first heard Black Phone 2 was happening, I was skeptical. However, when I heard Joe Hill -- whose short story inspired the 2022 Blumhouse hit directed by Scott Derrickson -- was deeply involved, I became intrigued. Now, I know how involved he really was, and it's incredible. The Locke and Key creator recently opened up about how the idea for the new horror movie came to him and why he decided it had to be on the 2025 release schedule. And honestly, it’s the kind of storytelling instinct you only get when the original author is still deeply invested in their creation.
During a recent interview on The Last Podcast on the Left, Hill revealed that the spark for the recently released The Black Phone 2 came not from studio pressure or franchise ambition, but from one small moment in the first film. Hill explained that Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill’s first book-to-screen adaptation, was mostly his work, but everyone brought something to it:
