Black Phone 2's opening box-office looks as impressive as the Blumhouse entry bags $23 million

Black Phone 2 is a sequel to 2021's The Black Phone, and it is directed by Scott Derrickson, who has written it with C. Robert Cargill. The supernatural horror flick is produced by Cargill, Derrickson, and Jason Blum under the banners of Crooked Highway and Blumhouse Productions. Here is the official synopsis as per Letterboxd:

Four years after escaping The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

The film was released on October 17, 2025, and it has managed to gross $23 million.

Black Phone 2 mints $23 million at the box office

Black Phone 2 has grossed $23 million on its opening Friday, which includes its preview collection of $10.1 million. The film has been playing in PLF screens and Dolby Cinema theatres across the nation in around 3,411 sites. It has been made on a production budget of $30 million, which means the film will have to keep performing well to break even and eventually become profitable.

Black Phone 2 had its world premiere at this year's Fantastic Fest and was released theatrically by Universal Pictures on October 17, 2025. Its cast members include,

Mason Thames as Finney Blake
Madeleine McGraw as Gwen Blake
Maev Beaty as Barbara
Demián Bichir as Armando Reyes
Jeremy Davies as Terrence Blake
Miguel Mora as Ernesto Arellano
Ethan Hawke as the Grabber
Graham Abbey as Kenneth
Arianna Rivas as Mustang
Anna Lore as Hope Blake

In an interview with AU Review, Scott Derrickson revealed why he wanted to do a sequel.

"I think one of the main things that made me want to do a sequel was the idea of waiting a couple years until these kids were older, so that we could make a high school horror film. That, by itself, not only opens up the possibility, but it kind of demands a more visceral, even violent kind of horror film. You have to raise the bar in terms of visceral power in a high school horror film. There’s an explanation for that, given the key demographic and how people feel about that part of the horror genre."

Black Phone 2 is playing in theatres.