Blumhouse is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, and today brings a new book that goes behind the scenes of the horror studio‘s meteoric and entertainingly gory rise. Its full title is Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse, and it’s full of details about its biggest hits (Five Nights at Freddy’s, Get Out, M3GAN) […]
‘Black Phone 2’ Is Everything You Want In a Horror Sequel
More often than not, horror sequels are weak imitations of the original, a cheap, quick, cash grab that hits the same beats in a slightly different way. Black Phone 2 is not that. It’s a sequel that changes and elevates the original in ways you’d never expect. You learn more about the world, the characters, […]
Ring, Ring! It’s the First ‘Black Phone 2’ Trailer
Those weekend teases had to lead up to something, right? Blumhouse unveiled a full first look at Black Phone 2 during its CCPX panel, and if you’ve ever wanted to see Ethan Hawke ice skate toward someone he intends to murder, this sequel will be for you. With main baddie the Grabber (Hawke) dead, the […]
‘The Black Phone 2’ Dials In Some Ominous Teasers
In 2022, horror duo Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill of Sinister fame teamed to adapt Joe Hill’s short story The Black Phone. Things wrapped pretty conclusively in that one, but you can’t keep a good Grabber (Ethan Hawke) down it seems, because he’s back in a sequel coming this fall. The first film saw Finn (Mason […]
Scott Derrickson Adapting Horror Novel Road of Bones for Film
Director Scott Derrickson and writer C. Robert Cargill—aka, the dream team behind Doctor Strange and The Black Phone—are collaborating again. Their next project? An adaption of Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the duo are working on the film for Sony’s Screen Gems label. It’ll be the first movie under the production banner Crooked Highway, […]