Ring, Ring! It is the First ‘Black Cellphone...

These weekend teases needed to lead as much as one thing, proper? Blumhouse unveiled a full first have a look at Black Phone 2 throughout its CCPX panel, and when you’ve ever wished to see Ethan Hawke ice skate towards somebody he intends to homicide, this sequel will likely be for you.

With principal baddie the Grabber (Hawke) lifeless, the sequel picks up years after the primary, the now teenage Finney (Mason Thames) and Gwen (Madeline McGraw) Blake coping with one other Colorado winter. Quickly, Gwen finds herself dreaming of the Grabber’s lair and three younger boys who’ve been killed lifeless at Alpine Lake Youth Camp. Utilizing a black payphone close to the camp, the Grabber calls the teenagers up saying he’s trying to kill them: both of their desires or doubtlessly in the true world, he’s gonna get his revenge.

Speaking to THR, returning director/co-writer Scott Derrickson referred to as Black Cellphone 2 a ghost story like its predecessor, however one the place “the ghost is the villain.” And with the children aged up, he and co-writer C. Robert Cargill had been excited to “ratchet up the depth,” since Finn and Gwen in highschool makes for a “extra violent, scarier, extra graphic” movie.

Black Cellphone 2 hits theaters on October 17 and in addition stars Jeremy Davies, Anna Lore, Arianna Rivas, Miguel Mora, and Demián Bichir.

Hell has frozen over. #BlackPhone2 is asking, solely in theaters October 17 pic.twitter.com/OpYvtJLAHi

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