The Black Phone 2 director Scott Derrickson says the upcoming sequel is an in-depth, emotional expansion of the first film, rather than another modern-day horror allegory for trauma.
"I wouldn't have any interest in making a movie that's an allegory for trauma. What's interesting to me are people who've been traumatized," Derrickson tells GamesRadar+. "And the idea of picking Finn and Gwen up four years later when they're high school kids, I was very interested in trying to truthfully represent how they would have responded to the events of the first movie. And Finn with his repressed fear and manifest anger and smoking too much weed and numbing himself out."
