Dead is just a word.
Four years after escaping The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his 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.
Cast
Ethan Hawke
The Grabber
Mason Thames
Finney Blake
Madeleine McGraw
Gwen Blake
Demián Bichir
Mando
Miguel Mora
Ernesto Arellano
Jeremy Davies
Terrence Blake
Arianna Rivas
Mustang
Maev Beaty
Barbara
Graham Abbey
Kenneth
James Ransone
Max
Anna Lore
Hope
Simon Webster
Felix
Shepherd Munroe
Cal
Chase B. Robertson
Spike
Dexter Bolduc
New Kid
Jazlyn Wong-lee
Mean Girl
Julien Norman
Wild Bill
Jacob Moran
Billy
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- Release Date 10/17/2025
- Language English
- Director Scott Derrickson
- Writers C. Robert Cargill, Scott Derrickson
- Editor Louise Ford
- Cinematographer Pär M. Ekberg
- Producers Jason Blum, C. Robert Cargill, Scott Derrickson
- Companies Universal Pictures, Crooked Highway, Divide / Conquer, Blumhouse Productions
- Budget $30,000,000
- Homepage www.blackphonemovie.com
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| United States | Sep 20, 2025 | Premiere (Fantastic Fest) | — |
| United States | Oct 6, 2025 | Premiere (Beyond Fest) | — |
| United States | Oct 10, 2025 | Premiere (SCAD Atlanta Horror Fest) | — |
| Australia | Oct 14, 2025 | Premiere (SXSW Sydney) | — |
| BE | Oct 15, 2025 | Theatrical | 16 |
| France | Oct 15, 2025 | Theatrical | 16 |
| ID | Oct 15, 2025 | Theatrical | 17+ |
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| Brazil | Oct 16, 2025 | Theatrical | 18 |
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| Italy | Oct 16, 2025 | Theatrical | 14+ |
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| Netherlands | Oct 16, 2025 | Theatrical | 16 |
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| LT | Oct 17, 2025 | Theatrical | N-16 |
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| United Kingdom | Oct 17, 2025 | Theatrical | 18 |
| United States | Oct 17, 2025 | Theatrical | R |
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| Germany | Oct 23, 2025 | Theatrical | 16 |
| Russia | Oct 23, 2025 | Theatrical | — |
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| Spain | Oct 24, 2025 | Theatrical | 16 |
| South Korea | Oct 29, 2025 | Theatrical | 15 |
| BM | Oct 31, 2025 | Theatrical | — |
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| Japan | Nov 21, 2025 | Theatrical | — |
Black Phone 2 Ratings
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