The highly anticipated sequel to the 2022 supernatural horror, Black phone 2, was released on October 17, 2025. The film features the original stars reprising their roles, with Ethan Hawke as the Grabber, Mason Thames as Finney Blake, and Madeleine McGraw as the psychic Gwen. Jeremy Davies also returns from the original team.
The story takes place four years after the prequel, where 13-year-old Finney Blake has survived her encounter with the sadistic child kidnapper, The Grabber, who returns in the sequel for revenge and threatens Gwen, Finney’s psychic younger sister. The siblings travel to a remote winter camp and discover a horrific connection between The Grabber and their family’s tragic history.
Black phone 2 was primarily filmed in Toronto and Hamilton, Canada, under the title Mystery.
That of Scott Derrickson Black phone 2 filming locations and production details
The filming of Black phone 2 took place primarily in Ontario, Canada, specifically in the Greater Toronto Area, with partial filming taking place in Huntsville. Principal photography began in early November 2024 and concluded in the last week of January 2025.
The majority of filming took place in the Greater Toronto Area, primarily in the cities of Toronto and Mississauga. Major urban locations included the area around Toronto City Hall at 100 Queen Street West. The crew also used Wally’s Family Restaurant, located at 3480 Hurontario Street in Mississauga.
To capture the alpine and snowy environment, the Black phone 2 The production team traveled to Huntsville, Ontario, located in the rolling terrain of the Canadian Shield. However, due to the dangers associated with filming with heavy equipment and having several cast and crew members on a frozen lake, the production team recreated these sets on a soundstage in the Greater Toronto Area.
The film’s star, Madeleine McGraw, revealed some details regarding the horror elements. She noted that she was initially “disgusted and horrified” to see the Grabber’s prosthetics (worn by Ethan Hawke) sitting on a table on set, which helped her acting in the scenes. THE Banned the actress said:
But I’m not going to lie; there were times when I would see the Grabber’s prosthetics sitting on a table near my chair, and they looked disgusting. There were times when I was completely disgusted, but I persevered, and honestly, it helped me with the scenes.
McGraw also said she performed many of her stunts herself, including learning to be SCUBA certified for water-related sequences. Additionally, scenes set in the snow often used real snow, with the actors freezing during filming.The Mandela effect the star said:
It was real snow. There were several meters of snow we were filming in. And I remember Mason and Jeremy and I were filming this really important scene, and every time we went out to film it, it started snowing. She added: So yes, all the snow was real. We were all freezing our butts off all the time.
What is Black phone 2 about?
Black phone 2 takes place four years after Finney Blake killed The Grabber. In the sequel, the siblings are tormented again as the killer returns in the form of a vengeful supernatural entity. The main conflict begins when Finney’s sister, Gwen, uses her growing psychic abilities and dream calls to trace the source of evil to the snowy camp of Alpine Lake, where The Grabber committed his first murders.
They discover that The Grabber had murdered their mother years earlier and staged her death as a suicide to silence her psychic visions. To resolve the conflict, the siblings are forced to locate and lay to rest the bodies of the three missing boys whose trapped spirits fuel the Grabber’s demonic power.
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Edited by Suchita Patnaha
