Black Phone 2 trailer turns the Grabber into Freddy Krueger

In 2022's The Black Phone, Ethan Hawke terrified audiences as the masked kidnapper known as "the Grabber." Now, he's back to do it all over again in Blumhouse's Black Phone 2.

Viewers of the first Black Phone know that the film ended with — spoiler alert! — the Grabber's death. But horror fans should know better by now that no horror antagonist is ever truly dead. Especially not when that antagonist is at the center of a box office hit like The Black Phone.

So how does the Grabber come back in Black Phone 2? Apparently, by emulating another horror icon: Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger.

Just like dear old Freddy, the Grabber can now attack kids in their dreams. His target is Gwen (Madeleine McGraw), the younger sister of The Black Phone's protagonist Finney (Mason Thames). Gwen