The action-romance film starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller comes just eight months before his horror sequel, which he calls “a high school coming-of-age movie.”

Of course, there's one major roadblock to the story of the horror sequel. Namely, that The Black Phone' s ending saw The Grabber seemingly killed by Finny during his escape. Did he survive after all? We'll just have to wait and see, but it's hard to imagine the movie's sequel not featuring its iconic masked villain.

I’m a big fan of director Scott Derrickson ’s The Black Phone , because it delivered a chilling mix of supernatural terror and coming-of-age drama that just clicked with me. Now, a sequel is in the works,