A horror movie that does not attract viewers Movierulzz

Here I thought social media and artificial intelligence were the things I should be worried about. In a world Black phoneDead technology is a pipeline to the dead. Separate pay phones receive calls from lost souls. The dream sequences (or are they flashbacks?) resemble old 8mm film stock, right down to the scratches on the negative and the hiss heard in the soundtrack. These ancient communication tools are weaponized by Grabber, a serial killer who refuses to let something as small as his own death stop him from his passion in life: capturing and killing children. (His actions are despicable, but you have to admit: The guy has a hell of a work ethic. Even in death, he won’t catch a break. The Grabber has that dog inside him.)

the first Black phonea claustrophobic horror film set in the late 1970s, established the franchise’s intriguing love-hate relationship with old-school gadgets. It follows a kid named Vinnie (Mason Thames) who gets trapped in a dungeon-like basement by the notorious Grabber (Ethan Hawke). Vinnie’s only hope of escape is the “dead” room phone, which he uses to talk to his captor’s previous victims. The voices on the other end of the line sound scary, but they actually hold the key to Finny’s salvation.

Black phone 2 These characters go back to the early 1980s. Vinnie kills Grabber and escapes from his basement prison, but he can’t let go of his trauma. (You could even say the grabber is still in control. I mean, I I wouldn’t say that; I will never say anything stupid. But in theory you can. If you want to. Which I don’t do.)

Vinnie’s younger sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) has a more difficult time. Every night she suffers terrifying prophetic dreams, a curse she inherited from her late mother. Her visions continue to show an abandoned Christian youth camp somewhere in the Rocky Mountains where she watches helplessly each night as the Grabber hunts off more young children.

After Gwen discovers that her mother spent time at this camp before her death, the children become convinced that they need to investigate. With impressive speed, they both get jobs as counselors on the scene and head for the Rocky Mountains – just as a blizzard covers the entire area and easily prevents all but our heroes (and a small group of friends/enemies/potential kidnapper victims) from reaching the camp.

Snowed in and cut off from civilization, Gwen, Finny, and the few remaining employees – including Demian Bichir as the current owner of Camp Mando – discover the place’s dark history. And wouldn’t you know that? The old payphone next to the camp’s frozen lake starts ringing again, too. (I’m not allowed to tell Grabber how to do his job, but if I were him, I’d probably look for places to terrorize kids that aren’t within walking distance of antique telephones. That never works for him.)

The idea that ghosts might be scary and The key was useful for Black phonewhich was based on a short story by Joe Hill. For this sequel, director/co-writer Scott Derrickson seems to have drawn inspiration from a host of horror favorites of the time. Black phone 2 It is happening. The Grabber’s ghost has evolved into the ghost of Freddy Krueger who haunts his victims while they sleep. The camp in which most of the film takes place evokes Jason Voorhees’s stomping ground Friday the 13th Movies, while the weather remembers the frost bright — Which, of course, sprang from the mind of Hill’s father, author Stephen King.

Black phone 2 Conjuring a masterful setting of these disparate elements, it is imbued with the chilly atmosphere of the classic campfire ghost story. But the actual story it tells never quite lives up to its superior effects, or even the previous entry in the series. The Grabber may have leveled up his abilities, but he still stalks his prey through the dream world in the same way he did when he was still alive; He slowly walks behind the children with his trusty axe.

Freddy Krueger certainly always had this handy knife glove at the ready. But think of all the creative ways he used to torture his targets. Every dream in A Nightmare on Elm Street It was completely different. Each kill is rendered with all sorts of wild gore and prosthetics. Once Gwen and Finny arrive at the death trap camp, Black phone 2 It settles into a predictable rhythm: The teens find some new evidence during the day, then take on Grabber (and his axe) when he comes to Gwen in her dreams each night.

Derrickson fills his frame with old-fashioned horror sensibilities, but he relies on them for too long and with too little variety. Translating the visual language of 8mm home movies into a dream is a great idea the first time around Black phone 2 He does that; By the eighth time the film returns to this good level, it begins to feel as stale as a rotary telephone. There’s not enough imagination on display in these sequences or Grabber’s techniques to keep them engaged over the course of a two-hour film.

Hawkeye appears mostly as a disembodied voice on the phone and in a few scenes behind Grabber’s ghoul mask. He’s an actual threat when he’s around, which isn’t much. The young actors perform well – although Mustang, a teenage cowgirl character, looks like someone out of a Howard Hawks movie, not necessarily one. Stranger things-Neighborhood horror parody of the 80s. The unattractive characters are also at the mercy of a screenplay that drowns them in expository dialogue, much of it devoted to needless rehashing of Grabber’s original, much of it delivered in claustrophobic long takes with little camera movement.

In an age where our eyeballs are constantly bombarded with mundane digital horrors — my Instagram just showed me a truly gruesome AI-generated video of “Macho Man” Randy Savage screaming at Mister Rogers — there’s something appealing about the way… Black phoneFind comfort as well as terror in analog. But I must admit that this particular movie did not attract me.

Rating: 4/10