Black Phone 2
Black Phone 2
As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, his sister 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.
RipLinesMan reviewedNovember 5, 2025
Black Phone 2 plays like Event Horizon (1997) rewritten in frost and plywood, with Scott Derrickson turning a winter camp into a white corridor that keeps opening onto the pit while phones ring like alarms from a cursed engine room; Finney Blake and Gwen Blake act as the sane crew trying to seal the doors, Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw giving the story its steadiness, while the returning Grabber, embodied by Ethan Hawke, prowls like a Weir-figure lured by the red glow beyond the bulkhead, and the world around them fills out with Demián Bichir as Mando and Miguel Mora as Ernesto Arellano, witnesses to a gravity that pulls everyone back toward old harm; Paul W. S. Anderson’s Event Horizon is a masterpiece of cosmic damnation built on the duel between Captain Miller and Dr William Weir, and this sequel borrows that moral geometry to stage a patient, chilling argument about protocol versus rapture, with the snow creaking like metal under pressure and the frame tightening until every choice feels like stepping through a door that should stay shut.