Black Phone 2

★★★

MA. 114 minutes

Of all the sub-genres bulking up the horror movie market, the most distasteful is the one centring on serial killers – especially those preying on children.

Naturally, this doesn’t stop them from working at the box office. The Black Phone , a low-budget 2022 chiller starring Ethan Hawke as a horrific character rejoicing in the nickname The Grabber proved to be such a profitable surprise that a sequel was inevitable. So we have the same team back with Black Phone 2 which picks up the story four years on.

Finney (Mason Thames), who not only escaped The Grabber but overpowered and killed him on his way out, is now a morose, dope-smoking 17-year-old, his younger sister, Gwen (Madeleine McGraw), is still having psychic nightmares, and the ghosts of The

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