‘The Black Phone 2’: “More Violent, Scarier, More Graphic,” States Director Scott Derrickson

Dead is simply a word.

That’s the message behind Universal and Blumhouse’s trailer for The Black Phone 2, revealed Sunday at CCXP Mexico, a popular culture convention being kept in Mexico City over the weekend.

The motion picture is the follow up to the surprise 2022 hit that made $161 million versus an $18 million spending plan. Based upon a narrative by Joe Hill, the child of Stephen King, the motion picture presented audiences to the Grabber, a masked serial killer who kidnaps kids, locking them up in his basement. One such kid, nevertheless, discovers an unplugged however haunted rotary phone that links him to the ghosts of the previous snatched kids. And because, a possible escape.

The motion picture ends (spoiler alert!) with the Grabber dead, so how the heck is he back? The trailer enticingly reveals develops to a cooling telephone call in between our hero, played by a returning Mason Thames, and the Grabber, as soon as again played by Ethan Hawke, with the latter informing the teenager, “You of all individuals must understand that dead is simply a word.” Then the trailer releases a barrage of scary images.

Director and co-writer Scott Derrickson, who got on the phone with The Hollywood Press Reporter prior to the trailer’s expose, was tight-lipped concerning the return. In reality, he was practically tight-lipped about a great deal of things.

However he did elaborate on the nature of ghost stories.

” The very first motion picture was a ghost motion picture however all the ghosts were victims, which is normal, a ghost story,” he stated. “However in this one, you have actually got a ghost that is a bad guy.”

With the very first motion picture, Derrickson used his Denver youth, where bullies and violence prevailed. For this one, he made use of his high school experience of going to winter season camps in the Rocky Mountains. The intensity of the weather condition, the environment and the surrounding Rockies added to the tone of the brand-new motion picture.

However the distinction in between intermediate school and high school ages of the characters is the huge modification in tone.

” An intermediate school coming-of-age scary motion picture is a various animal than a high school coming-of-age scary movie,” states Derrickson. “A there’s a ratcheting up of strength since of that.”

Derrickson wasn’t always intending on a follow up to Black Phone however stated Hill composed to him a month or more after the motion picture brought out some concepts. And having it embeded in the high school years showed attractive, particularly when he exercised the timing in his head.

” I believed if I go make another motion picture initially and do not make a follow up now like you’re expected to, then by the time I complete, these kids are all going to remain in high school,” he stated. The motion picture he did was the large-budgeted beast Apple television+ motion picture entitled The Canyon with Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller. “And I can go back to these characters in this various phase of their lives.”

And since of that, Black Phone 2 is more of a scary movie than the very first motion picture, which he thinks about to be a supernatural thriller.

” It is definitely more violent, scarier, more graphic,” he states. “And part of that is since of the age of the kids.”

See the trailer listed below.