Madeleine McGraw and Ethan Hawke in BLACK PHONE 2. With its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2025 in Austin, Black Phone 2 (directed once again by Scott Derrickson, and written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill) is eager to tell the next (final?) Black Phone 2’s strongest storytelling choice is its setting in the Colorado cold, in the ice, in the beautiful snowy mountains. The religious seeds laid in The Black Phone sprout also in this installment, providing a nominal amount of spirituality, quoting scripture back at the Grabber like The Exorcist. Black Phone 2 is about trauma, and how it can cling onto generations at a time.