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“You know, a high school coming-of-age movie demands more.

It has to be more visceral.

Ethan Hawke as The Grabber in The Black Phone

It has to be, I think, more graphic, scarier.”

With that, it will be interesting to see how Derrickson makes the sequel even “scarier.”

According to the director, that’s all down to Finley’s maturity.

Scott Derrickson on set of The Black Phone

The genre-bending horror slash romance slash action movie also stars Sigourney Weaver.

However, Blumhouse has yet to release an official synopsis of the movie.

The Black Phone

Ethan Hawke in The Black Phone

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Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller as Drasa and Levi in The Gorge

Sharni Vinson as Erin in You�re Next (2011)

Bring Her Back

Kaitlyn Santa Juana as Stefanie in Final Destination Bloodlines

Julia Garner in Weapons

A still from a Weapons teaser

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Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Sinners movie

Todd Howard

Upcoming movies: Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Thunderbolts* trailer

Florence Pugh as Yelena in Marvel�s Thunderbolts

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Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2