Mild spoilers below for Black Phone 2 and for the 1983 slasher, Curtains, so be warned if you haven’t seen either film.
Though not nearly as dark and foreboding a film as its predecessor, Scott Derrickson’s stellar sequel Black Phone 2 is obviously no walk in the park, with Ethan Hawke’s child killer, The Grabber, reaching out to Mason Thames’ Finney to wreak havoc from beyond the grave. The film pleased most critics, and it won its first weekend at the box office, making it clear that Derrickson was right to follow up one of his own films for the first time.
