Black Phone 2

Colorado Rocky Mountains, 1957 – A woman named Hope Adler (Anna Lore) is standing in a payphone, speaking to an unheard voice on the other line. Hope claims that she found mysterious numbers written in the ice. All that is heard on the other end is static, which spooks Hope enough for her to hang up.

Denver, 1982 – It has been three years since Finney Blake (Mason Thames) killed The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) and has garnered a reputation for being a tough guy. Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) catches Finney beating up a new kid who allegedly challenged him, and he felt the need to prove a point. Finney masks his trauma by smoking weed but is still haunted by visions of The Grabber. His and Gwen’s father Terrence (Jeremy Davies) has been sober since the ordeal and no longer abuses them. Finney and Gwen have also become friends with Ernesto/”Ernie” (Miguel Mora), the younger brother of Robin, who appears to have a crush on Gwen (and it seems to be mutual).

At night, Gwen has a nightmare where she sees a boy named Felix (Simon Webster) arriving at a place called Camp Alpine Lake, seemingly nervous for starting his time there. Felix is chased through the woods by The Grabber, who slashes the boy’s body and dumps him in the lake. Felix scratches the letter W into the ice. Gwen sleepwalks outside and appears to see The Grabber across the street but is snapped out of it by Finney.

Gwen is teased at school by other girls for her research into the occult and other supernatural events due to her visions. Ernesto tries to ask Gwen about it, particularly about how her visions helped find the bodies of The Grabber’s victims, but the subject puts her off.

Gwen later has another nightmare where she sees another boy at the camp, Cal (Shepherd Munroe), who is very active with the other kids but is chased and killed by The Grabber. He chops up the boy’s body and throws his remains into an oven before dumping what’s left in the icy lake. Cal’s ghost scratches B into the ice.

Gwen ends up going to The Grabber’s old home, where she hears the Black Phone ringing. She answers it and hears Hope’s voice on the other end, as it was Gwen she was talking to in the beginning. Before Gwen can learn anything else, the call cuts off, and she sees the ghost of Max (James Ransone) with The Grabber’s axe still in his head. Finney shows up at the house to wake Gwen up. She tells Finney that she was speaking to Hope, whom she recognized as her and Finney’s mother, but she doesn’t know what her message meant.

Finney and Gwen find a pamphlet for Camp Alpine Lake and come up with a plan to become Counselors in Training so they can investigate why Gwen has been seeing this location. They convince Terrence to let them go with Ernesto. The three get caught in a snowstorm that gets so bad that Finney has to run ahead in the road to see where they are going. They are eventually found by the camp’s manager, Armando/”Mando” (Demian Bichir) and his niece Mustang (Arianna Rivas).

Gwen is put in a separate dorm from the boys, leaving her all alone. She has another nightmare where she sees a camper named Spike (Chase B. Robertson), who is part of the music band. He ends up as another victim of The Grabber, whose head is cut in half. Spike scratches H into the ice. Outside of the dorms, Finney hears the payphone outside ringing. He tries to ignore it, but it goes on a continuous ring until he finally answers it. He hears The Grabber’s voice on the other end, telling him that Hell isn’t flames, it’s ice. Back in Gwen’s dream, she sees the three dead boys, followed by The Grabber trying to attack her. Cal touches Gwen’s arm and burns her. Finney runs to the dorms after he hears Gwen screaming and goes to wake her up. She sleeps in the boys’ dorm in Ernesto’s bed, where he flirts with her and they nearly kiss…until Finney ruins the moment.

The trio meet with Mando in the morning for breakfast. While he is not happy that Gwen stayed in the boys’ dorm, he tells them that he knew Hope, who was a counselor there and was nicknamed “Starlight”. Finney hears the phone ringing again and answers it, but he hears what sounds like Felix’s voice speaking to him the same way The Grabber’s other victims, as he and the other boys are lost and cannot move on.

Finney, Gwen, and Ernesto meet Kenneth and Barbara (Graham Abbey and Maev Beaty) to ask more about what has happened at the camp, but Barbara looks down upon Gwen for sleeping in the boys dorm (as well as her potty mouth).

Gwen later sleepwalks outside and goes to the kitchen. Finney answers the payphone again and is taunted by The Grabber, who has been plotting his revenge on Finney and now wants him to suffer by taking away what he loves the most. Ernesto rushes to get help from Kenneth, Barbara, and Mustang. The Grabber’s ghost attacks Gwen and tosses her around in front of everyone. Ernesto and Mustang pull Gwen away as The Grabber tries to throw her in the oven until he decides to drop her.

Everybody gathers in the chapel with Mando to talk about Hope and Gwen’s visions. She explains how she has been seeing the boys who died at the camp, and Mando recognizes them from her descriptions. Mando shows Finney and Gwen a picture of the last year the camp was open, with Hope among the counselors. Finney then recognizes one of the men as The Grabber. Mando says he was a maintenance guy named Bill, and they called him “Wild Bill Hickock” (hence WBH from the boys) because he wore a belt like a gunslinger. Gwen realizes the camp is where his murders began. She also knows that finding the boys’ bodies in the lake and setting their spirits free will remove The Grabber’s powers.

Mando is in his office, looking over pictures of Felix, Cal, and Spike. The Grabber then contacts him through the radio and creates a blood-and-snow image of his mask on the window. He then finds Finney outside smoking a joint and has a heart-to-heart with him over his situation. Then he takes Finney’s weed because “it’s not even good shit”.

As everyone starts to go to bed, Finney and Ernesto take turns keeping an eye on Gwen as she sleeps. This time, she sees the visions that her mother saw of Billy (Jacob Moran), the paperboy who was the first kid taken by The Grabber in the area. Hope wakes up after realizing “Wild Bill” is a killer. Gwen watches as Hope goes to The Grabber’s home, where she finds Billy but is then taken by The Grabber in his van. It is then revealed that he killed Hope and staged her death as a suicide by leaving her hanging and having Terrence discover her. The Grabber proceeds to attack Gwen, slicing her arm with an axe, which causes her to start bleeding in reality. The ghost kids help Gwen get out, but she now sees herself standing on the lake while Mando is there and just found Felix’s body. He starts trying to break through the ice, but The Grabber is able to smash through the ice and drop Mando in there. Finney tells Gwen to fight back when Grabber has her trapped inside a phone booth, so she does so and causes the booth to blow up and push Grabber back. Outside, the group rescues Mando before it’s too late.

Terrence shows up at the camp in his snowplow after getting a phone call about the situation. However, Gwen refuses to go home until they have found Cal and Spike’s bodies too. She calls Finney out for how he’s been handling his trauma, to which Finney snaps at her and breaks down that nobody knows what he went through and how hard it is for him to live with that every day. Gwen convinces Terrence that her abilities are real after telling him how she saw him blaming himself when he found Hope’s body. He agrees to stay and help.

The group spends the entire next day looking for the other two boys, but they get nowhere by the time it is dark. Gwen starts to fall asleep, and The Grabber starts attacking by striking Kenneth with his axe and then dragging him across the ice, causing him to slide into Barb and making her faceplant on the ice and break her nose. Terrence dives in the water with help from Sleep-Gwen, who is pushing the barrels with Cal and Spike’s bodies in them to the surface. The Grabber starts to get pissed and removes his mask, revealing his hideously decayed face underneath. Grabber eventually makes his way to Finney for his revenge, but Finney fights back as well. Once the boys have been found and freed, Grabber is stripped of his power. Finney smashes his face into the ice repeatedly despite him being invisible, and Gwen starts chopping him up. The ghost boys then drag The Grabber into the water, sending him back to his icy Hell. Gwen wakes up and kisses Ernesto.

The next day, Mando calls the boys’ families to give them closure. Finney and Gwen start to leave, but she hears the payphone ringing again. She answers it and hears Hope’s voice, speaking to her from Heaven. Hope gives her daughter some reassuring words before hanging up, causing Gwen to cry. She tells Finney what she heard before the two return home with Terrence and Ernesto.

Last Updated: October 23, 2025 at 11:00