Black Phone 2

The first film was a tense psychological thriller with a slight supernatural element.

Black Phone 2 felt like a throw everything at the wall and see what sticks mess.

The Ernesto character had nothing to do and that story thread.coukd have been lost and helped bring the overly long 2 hour runtime down.

At most this should have been 90mins.

The direction was weird with overly long pauses in scenes that should have been a lot quicker given the situation the characters were in. This was especially noticeable in the scene between the father, son and daughter having a long pause discussion/argument about leaving the camp.

Borrowing from Nightmare on Elm Street in heavy doses only made my eyes roll.

If you enjoyed Black Phone, rewatch that and don't waste your time with this messy, unnecessary sequel.

The positives about this movie were the cinematography, some scenes were shot so well like the mountain scenery.

The outfit and design, and ofc the level of effort put into gore scenes were absolutely realistic.

The rest was just bad, it was literally like watching one of those art short films were a lot of things were there because "it shows a deeper meaning" without it even relating to the plot.

There were parts that felt like filler, the phone scenes took such a huge part of the movie without anything developing in it,it got to the point that it became so boring I only stayed cause my friends were watching.

The characters sucked so bad. I didn't sympathise or like any of them. There was a "cool girl" who was just there, the main character was extremely unlikable and self centered, she even lashed out at her traumatised brother. Despite never showing any sympathy or care to others she demanded ppl risk lives for her to over a dream.

The entire goal of the unlikable character was so useless and vague and it was insulting that I had to accept that everyone suffer because she wants to "be brave" and "get to the bottom of this dream"

I was so excited for thos movie but it's so different to the first movie.

Why is every movie grainy these days, I didn't spend ally money on the top of the entertainment system to feel like I'm watching tv from the 70's, yet I digress.

As others said it's like nightmare on elm Street, way too many dream sequences and I find it kinda hard to follow.

I'd say watch it but I was ultimately disappointed. Great to see the young cast return but this movie was more about the sister than Finny. It's just a very weird movie, lost the magic of the first movie...

I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't this, such a shame to drop the ball like they did.

Where to begin ? I had good hopes for this movie since watching the first and enjoyed it but this one just couldn't do it .

The pacing of the movie is very very slow. The movie can be split into two sections, talk and action. At times you will have long winded dialogue and character interaction that over stay their purpose and drag on and then you'll have your obvious "killer is here" moments for a bit where they show some violence and scares but it's all so predictable, you catch yourself figuring out what each scene is going to be really easily and there's no twists. "Oh, they're talking ? Expect nothing to happen for over 5 minutes" or "phone is ringing? Time for the horror parts" predictably.

Also, dialogue is just corny at times. Some of the things the "grabber" says just has no impact, very generic "I want to kill you!" or "dead is just a word" , I wish they could've led more to the movies name "Black Phone" and had the killer interact solely through the phone to communicate and more sporadically instead of this Nightmare on Elm Street manifestation.

The killer has become a joke . A once menacing, unhinged , man in a mask that you couldn't figure out has become a spoof version of Freddy Krueger that is utterly incompetent at killing anyone, at most a few scratches and bruises but everyone in this movie for the most part is actually quite fine . There are multiple instances of where he could kill someone and then it gets abandoned or the person survives, seriously?

At the end of the day , I stayed until the end but saw a least 4 or more couples leave the theater early for being to slow paced until it picks up the last hour or so of the film .

It felt as a weird mashup of Friday the 13th and Elm Street but none of the charm from Freddy and none of the terrifying fear from Jason.

Easily one of the worst movies I've seen in the last 5 years. Wasn't scary. Wasn't exiting. Wasn't dramatic. Also it was way to long for what is basically a boring movie.

The first hour a bunch of people were taking during the movie. The second hour they were completely silent. My guess is they fell asleep. I wish i had done the same.