Scott Derrickson's Black Phone 2 will push the original's supernatural serial killer story to nightmarish new depths , and in doing so it borrows heavily from the very best of the golden age of horror in the 1980s. Mason Thames and Ethan Hawke will reprise their roles as Finney and the enigmatic now-dead serial killer known as The Grabber as the overarching narrative picks up three years after the events of the original.

That temporal setting places Black Phone 2 in 1982, with most of the action taking place either in Finney's hometown of Denver, Colorado, or the mountain retreat recognized as Alpine Lake Youth Camp. Fittingly, Derrickson and screenwriter C. Robert Cargill, who is also returning from the original, loaded the sequel with references, themes, and motifs from some o

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