Is Black Phone 2 scary?

Moderately so — Black Phone 2 mixes scares with other modes. As a supernatural film, it scored 6.5/10 for fear, 8.4/10 for atmosphere, and 7.4/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 2 ratings.

What are some films like Black Phone 2?

Films similar to Black Phone 2 on Watch Darkly include Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), The Thing (1982), Barbarian (2022) — selected by cosine similarity on the curator scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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Black Phone 2

2025 · R · 1h 54m

Dead is just a word.

Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger 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.

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Curator Score

7.4

Overall

Based on 2 curator ratings

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7.4Overall

Fear6.5

Gore6.5

Atmosphere8.4

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