Scott Derrickson's 2022 horror film "The Black Phone" was a box office success , which was refreshing news for not just the horror genre but modern moviegoing in general. Rather than setting up a sequel, the movie — an adaptation of Joe Hill's 2004 short story of the same name — was content to tell a self-contained tale. Of course, in Hollywood, anything that sells tickets will almost certainly get a follow-up regardless, and now we've got just that. "Black Phone 2," which /Film's Rafael Motamayor has dubbed "Dream Warriors good," isn't just a rehash of the first film, either. Derrickson really tried to up the stakes with his sequel, and a big part of that was making the victims of Ethan Hawke's The Grabber significantly older than in the first movie.

In "The Black Phone," Mason Tham

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