🎥 Movie Review: The Black Phone 2 (2025)

High in the snowy mountains of Colorado, inside the isolated Alpine Lake Youth Camp we meet Hope Adler a teenage girl gifted with the strange ability to see the future.
One winter night, she dreams of a phone number carved into ice.
When she wakes, she dials the number from an old black payphone at the camp — and a voice answers.
Not from another place… but from another time.
It’s the voice of her future daughter Gwen Blake speaking from the year 1982.

Gwen is now a teenager living with her brother Finn who still carries the scars of surviving the infamous serial killer The Grabber.
Finn hides his trauma behind silence and smoke, while Gwen keeps having vivid unsettling dreams.
Broken phones begin to ring again and each night she dreams of dead boys beneath the frozen lake — each carving a new letter into the ice: W... B... H.

Trying to make sense of these visions, Gwen grows closer to her classmate Ernesto who believes in her strange power.
He gives her tarot cards a gesture of trust — but when her dreams become too real she realizes the letters aren’t symbols; they’re messages from the past.
In one of her visions her mother’s voice calls her through the black phone.
Gwen understands she must return to where it all began: Alpine Lake.

Gwen Finn and Ernesto travel to the camp.
They meet Mando Reyes the aging owner who once worked there as a cook in the 1950s the same time three boys mysteriously disappeared.
A blizzard traps them all inside.
That night the phone rings again.

Finn picks it up — and hears the voice he thought he’d escaped forever.
The Grabber.
Dead yet still alive somewhere beyond the veil.
He taunts Finn promising to hurt Gwen the same way he hurt his victims long ago.

From that moment reality and nightmare begin to blur.
Gwen collapses into trance-like dreams seeing the murdered boys trapped beneath the ice.
She witnesses the truth — her mother didn’t take her own life.
She was murdered by The Grabber who faked her suicide to hide his crime.
The killer’s spirit has been feeding on fear ever since.

In a tense meeting inside the camp’s chapel Gwen Finn Ernesto Mando and the staff confront the impossible.
Some believe Gwen is possessed.
But Mando believes her — and reveals that the real killer back in 1957 was a maintenance man called “Wild Bill Hickock.”
The letters Gwen saw in the ice — W. B. H. — were his mark carved by the spirits of his victims.

Now she knows what she must do.
The boys’ bodies must be found so their souls can finally rest.
The group searches the frozen lake as Gwen’s visions grow stronger.
In her final dream, Gwen faces The Grabber himself — the spirit that killed her mother and now hunts her.
Using her psychic power she destroys the black phone inside her dream weakening him.

Back in reality the ice cracks open.
Mando finds the first body Felix before falling through the frozen surface.
With her brother’s help, Gwen dives back into the dreamworld determined to finish what her mother started.
She descends beneath the ice, discovers the remaining bodies — Cal and Spike — and together the three dead boys drag The Grabber down into the freezing depths.
His mask sinks beneath the water, and the ringing finally stops.

Morning breaks.
The snow begins to melt.
Mando calls the families of the missing children to tell them their sons have been found at last.
Gwen sits beside the silent black phone — until it rings one last time.
She answers…

It’s her mother.
Her voice is calm, gentle, and full of love:

“Tell your brother I love him… and Robin says hi.”

The line goes quiet.
But Gwen smiles.
The nightmare is finally over.

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Reviewed by @robert.stanberry