Overview
Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.
The first movie was psychological this was paranormal/supernatural.
It's been a long time since a horror movie has been so catchy with its atmosphere. There was no desire to be distracted by anything at all, and the film was just held up to the screen. Ethan Hawke's villain is still a creepy ppc. well, the buzz is
The first was a complete story based on a complete story of how the ghosts of the dead (a kind of failed attempt to escape from a maniac) help the next victim to bypass the traps and get out.
The second one has nothing to continue, so they made Freddy Krueger out of a maniac, who unsuccessfully tries to reprise the main character's sister in a dream, and for some reason three corpses of schoolboys hidden in a lake give him "strength". Why are they, what's the connection, why couldn't this sucker kill even the minor vegetables? Whatever, you grab it. The result is predictable. I hope there will be no continuation.
is beautiful, the actors are good, the visual is super, but... The story is sucked out of the finger
It's a cool movie, a decent image of a maniac, right now I really didn't watch the first part, but now I really want to! Actually, there was even interest in the book.
But I liked it, in some moments it's even better than part 1.
At first I was at a loss how the 2nd part could be if the kidnapper was killed, but everything was very beautifully turned out with abilities, dreams, the other world (?)
In short, I recommend watching!
But first, the 1st part is for familiarization
Make-up artists work at their best. The villain looks impressive.
The plot is not 10/10, but it is interesting to follow.
Except that sometimes the lengthy dialogues caused hostility, it would be better to shorten the chrono by 20 minutes due to them, and the film would look more cheerful.
Well, sometimes I'm like, "Oh. It's like a nightmare on Elm Street..".
So, in general, the sequel is excellent, but it does not reach the level of the first part in terms of atmosphere. I really liked the movie, especially its second half, and it seemed like it would be a masterpiece, but for some reason something was missing. What? I don't even know myself, but there are such feelings)
I know how to accept new things, so I won't say that I couldn't accept it as something new, something different from the first part. It just seemed like the sequel was somehow too simple, too soft in terms of denouement... Somehow so probably)
Excellent visual
A gorgeous ice skating scene
But I'll probably review it sometime.
When he was alive, he was a serial killer, and when he became a dead spirit with unlimited abilities, he couldn't kill anyone. Is this some kind of joke?
Hell is not a flame. It's ice. Nothing burns like the cold.
It's been 4 years since high school student Finney survived not only a kidnapping, but also the most serial killer Grabber. Despite his victory over the maniac, the high school student cannot work out the psychological trauma in any way, so he spills it out into unjustified bouts of cruelty to other students and into the use of drugs that intoxicate the brain. At this time, his younger sister Gwen, who has paranormal abilities, begins to see all sorts of bad things about the Christian children's camp where their mother and Finn used to be counselors. Gwen, along with her boyfriend, decides to go find out what kind of mystical news she receives from the past, followed by Finn.
If the first "Black Phone" was based on a story by Joe Hill (he is also Stephen King's son), then this time Scott Derrickson was left without a primary source and for a long time refused to work on the sequel at least in any role. Well, without the original source... At one point, Hill left a message to Derrickson, consisting of just one phrase, which returned the filmmaker to the director's chair (and at the same time the screenwriter).: "The phone rings, Finney picks up, Grabber is calling from hell."
I would like Hill to describe the plot in more detail, so to speak, "meat", otherwise Derrickson and his co-author Robert Cargill were significantly blown away. I was expecting a dark thriller from the sequel (well, maybe with periodic inserts of black humor) in the spirit of the first part, but in new, more spectacular scenery, and I naturally got another part of the adventures of Freddy Krueger. Once in hell and getting used to it a bit, Grabber (still played by Ethan Hawke) gets the ability to influence reality by penetrating the world of dreams. And from the point of view of picture quality, as well as stylistic techniques, there are zero questions about Derrickson at all. Smooth transitions between worlds, Derrickson's favorite graininess since the first "Sinister" (although this time it's not about films, but about dreams), original and good-looking special effects (the same scenes with ice skates in every sense) - nothing here looks cheap.
But it listens and is perceived as a Ge-class horror movie (okay, class B). The first part was quite distinctive and neatly bordered between a pure-blooded thriller and a mystery. There was also some kind of orgy named after Freddy Krueger (well, I've already written about mutilation in a dream) and Jason Voorhees (a camp with a lake and a sad past, counselors and, of course, a maniac in the vicinity). I didn't really like this change, if not of genres at all, then of accents. Moreover, the sequel intelligently adds new details to the first part - I really liked the whole line about the mother of the main characters. But Grabber, in terms of background, was again left with a dull lump with a small dosage of oil, and this despite the fact that the whole film is dedicated to him in one way or another. We're waiting for the triquel, yeah, so that we can get a lot of rich details. In general, it's as if you should have worked more carefully on the atmosphere, otherwise it's like you're watching two different films. And I don't mind that the average maniac has now become supernatural - this is a curious and not the most banal development of a series that originally had a mystique, but the circumstances could have been more exciting.
I'm not even starting to talk about the number of deaths in the frame. Almost everything happened in the distant past (sometimes even behind the scenes), and the overgrown staff of camp workers is rather puzzling, especially before the end credits. Well, like, why were there so many of them? You're not scheming about a murderer here. You don't build a plot twist around this either (in style: and Grabber was also helped by so-and-so or so-and-so!). The characters are dull. And you don't really want to kill them. Pure white noise. Unlike the same kids in the foreground, their personal growth was a success, including Gwen, who came to the fore in the sequel. But that's not a bad thing either. Finnie has something to do, too.
"Black Phone 2" is a bold, but not entirely successful attempt to shake up the formula of a young franchise (although it still seems to be not very well established within its framework), and in general, the approach to sequels. Sometimes, when you realize that they're not going to surprise you with the plot, I admit it was a bit boring, but the line about children coping with the traumas of the past, as well as about their mother's past, was great. Ethan Hawke is also funny and scary (the mask is still top-notch - take a closer look, it has a lot of variations there that change over the course of the tape), it's a pity that his character didn't really master the demonic power, unlike his mastermind.
P.S. Somehow it so happened that I watched the film the day after James Ranson's suicide (Eddie from the second chapter of "It", the policeman from the "Sinister" dilogy and, of course, Ziggy from the second season of "Wiretapping"). I didn't plan this, because I completely forgot that he was filming the first part. And I certainly didn't expect him to appear in the sequel. And this turned out to be his last role. Well... Ranson was a good actor. It's a pity that everything turned out this way.
Rating: 5 Freddy Kruegers out of 10
The first episode was psychological it was very interesting.
This was paranormal and very very boring.