The star of ‘Black Phone 2′ says that the rest evokes’ a Nightmare on Elm Street ”

When horror fans have heard for the first time a series of The black phone was going, there was excitement, but also confusion. The Grabber, the killer of diabolical children, did he not have die At the end of the 2021 film, allowing his future victim to escape? Of course, he did it! But with the existence of ghosts already established thanks to the haunted phone of the Grabber basement, there is an avenue ready to use for the villain to return Black phone 2. And according to Mason Thames, who plays the very lucky Finney, the Grabber (again played by Ethan Hawke) reminded him of another killer of diabolical children who returns from the grave.

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Thames said that Grabber – who comes back to torment the adolescent Finney via the dreams of his younger sister, Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) – has something in common with A nightmare on Elm StreetFreddy Krueger.

“The way the Grabber is in this film reminds me a lot of Freddy Krueger, just angry and, for me, much more scary because he tries to kill me,” Thames told the magazine. “Really, he’s terrifying. This film and the powers he won, without saying anything, it’s crazy and it’s so scary to see because it’s really almost an unstoppable force, this guy.”

Worse, the Grabber “realizes that killing Finney or trying to injure him does not affect him as much as hurting the person he loved,” according to the Thames.

Directed by Scott Derrickson, Black phone 2 To his world premiere at the Fantastic Fest of next week; He will be released in theaters on October 17, bringing the amplified supernatural powers of Grabber on the screen to terrify the public again.

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