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Black Phone 2 director Scott Derrickson addresses potential sequel: ‘There certainly can be more’

Black Phone 2 director Scott Derrickson has said there "certainly can be" another sequel in his horror series - but only if a possible third film is "another big pivot".

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It: Welcome to Derry shares an important similarity with some of the scariest horror movies ever made, and it's all thanks to Stephen King

Opinion | Shows like Welcome to Derry and movies like Black Phone 2 remind us what it's really like to be a small, fragile thing in the world

Total Film

The Black Phone 2 director says there was "a lot of pressure" when creating the Grabber's backstory, and that going more into his history "felt disrespectful to the true mystery of evil"

Exclusive: Scott Derrickson dishes on the inherent evil behind the Grabber – and why it needs no explanation – in Black Phone 2

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The Black Phone 2 director says the upcoming sequel is more than just another horror allegory for trauma: "What's more interesting to me are people who've been traumatized"

Exclusive: Scott Derrickson talks the "terror, fear, empathy, and love" in The Black Phone 2

Total Film

Black Phone 2 review – hit horror sequel lumbers toward Elm Street

Ethan Hawke’s child-killing murderer returns from the dead to become a joke-free, low-rent Freddy Krueger in a follow-up that leaves us cold

The Guardian - US

‘Black Phone 2’ review: Ethan Hawke is Freddy Krueger for a new generation

Let Ethan Hawke be the next generation's Freddy.

The Mary Sue

The Black Phone 2 director teases horror sequel has ‘more intensity and more gore’ than first film

The Black Phone 2 director Scott Derrickson has promised the horror sequel has “more intensity and more gore” than the first move now that Mason Thames' Finney is a teenager.

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'Black Phone 2' Review: A Bigger, Scarier, And Messier Horror Sequel

The sequel turns to religious horror in a way that puts the movie at odds with itself.

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The Black Phone ending explained: Are the ghosts in Joe Hill's story real?

In Scott Derrickson's newest horror movie, a kidnapped teenager receives unlikely help from beyond. But is it all in his head?

Inverse

The Black Phone review: Ethan Hawke horror inverts the suburban wish fulfilment of Stranger Things

Filmmaker Scott Derrickson’s first movie since 2016’s ‘Doctor Strange’ is brutal to its bones

The Independent UK

The Black Phone movie review: Ethan Hawke’s serial killer saga shouldn’t work, but it really does

From the get go, Scott Derrickson’s ultra-violent film sets out to tantalise - and succeeds

Evening Standard

Movie review: ‘The Black Phone’ a satisfying slice of dread-inducing terror

Joe Hill grew up in an old house in Bangor, Maine, the basement of which was home to a disconnected phone he found “creepy and unsettling.”

Tribune News Service

From the haunting scares to the ’70s vibe, ‘The Black Phone’ gets everything right

A boy abducted by a serial killer finds help from an unexpected source in the consistently chilling period piece.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Black Phone review – Ethan Hawke is eerily good in scary-clown kidnap horror

Impressive performances help an uneven plot in this 70s-set kidnap horror based on a story by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill

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'The Black Phone' review: Ethan Hawke is an instant iconic horror villain

Director Scott Derrickson returns to horror with the lean picture 'The Black Phone,' a gripping picture made all the more terrifying by an otherworldly Ethan Hawke.

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