BLACK PHONE 2

Ethan Hawke's maskwearing child snatcher returns from the grave as a vengeful Freddy Krueger type in a sequel to Scott Derrickson's 2021 thriller that struggles to build on the original's strong foundations.

- Neil Smith

Moving the action from the killer's basement to a snowed in youth camp, Black Phone 2 also shifts the emphasis from the first film's teen hero Finn (Mason Thames) to his clairvoyant sibling Gwen (Madeleine McGraw). Despite retaining most of its predecessor's core ingredients, though, this seems more like an unnecessary extrapola