Longtime collaborators and horror connoisseurs Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill are not big on doing sequels. Granted, a lot of folks in Hollywood say that before making one, but few have such a rich history of walking away from the alleged sure-thing. Whether it was turning down the chance to helm Sinister 2 or having much at all to do with Marvel’s eventual Doctor Strange continuation, Derrickson and Cargill always found themselves searching for greener, fresher pastures—including eschewing MCU money in favor of making a mean, gritty little chiller that starred Ethan Hawke as a child predator in a mask: 2021’s The Black Phone .

Even so, when the specter of a Black Phone 2 came around, neither Derrickson or Cargill could let this ghost go—particularly after author Joe Hil

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