India, June 18 -- Good storytelling runs in the family for Stephen King, whose son Joe Hill wrote the short story that was adapted into the 2021 supernatural horror hit The Black Phone. Now the film has spawned a sequel, Black Phone 2, which releases in October 2025. If the trailer left you scratching your head as to how Ethan Hawke's Grabber could be back in the sequel, let's recap the events of The Black Phone.

The Black Phone is a Blumhouse Productions film, directed by Scott Derrickson. Set in a small town in 1970s Colorado, it tells the story of the Grabber, a masked serial killer who abducts and kills young boys. When 13-year-old Finney Shaw (played by How to Train Your Dragon star Mason Thames) awakens in a basement with nothing ...