Review by ColinTheGorilla

I absolutely loved the first black phone film and found it to be a pleasantly great surprise. I was very interested in a sequel and I didn't know how it would work personally. I think the film is fine but it doesn't live up to the first film for me at all and I felt kind of disappointed throughout the film. I feel like the film was a bit unnecessary and I wish it would've been left alone and been a one off film. I think the movie has intriguing ideas and some of them work out but some moments don't work at all for me. I think the acting here is good for the most part and Madeline McGraw does a really strong performance and she kind of takes the lead role over from Mason Thames and I think they both do really good jobs in the film. Ethan Hawke is also terrifying as the grabber again as well and when he's on the screen he's great. There's also some beautiful shots and visuals here and I really like in these dream sequences when they use this grainy camera to capture the dream sequences here and I like the nightmare on elm street elements in the movie as well with the Grabber too. There's a decent story here though and I feel like they have some interesting story elements here but they don't execute it too well. I just don't like how they barely used the grabber though and it feels like the movie barely uses him and he has like little to no screen time at all. I also wish they would've used Finney more he's such a great character and he just gets sidelined for the most part and takes a massive backseat here. I think the movie is also not terrifying at all and there's legit no horror at all throughout the movie and I felt so disappointed by how little of horror was presented in this film and the grabber legit doesn't do like anything for the most part. This is still solid but I felt disappointed by this story here and it's still worth checking out but I feel disappointed still.