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14. The Grabber Killed The Kids' Mother - Black Phone 2
While it was reasonable to assume that Black Phone 2 would expand the series' creepy mythos and perhaps reveal an origin story for the murderous Grabber (Ethan Hawke), it feels like the story went a little too far in creating a personal link between him and the targets of his terror, Finney (Mason Thames) and Gwen (Madeleine McGraw).
Black Phone 2 does indeed reveal the particulars of the Grabber's first killing spree at the Alpine Lake Camp in the 1950s, but goes further by revealing that Finney and Gwen's mother Hope (Anna Lore) didn't take her own life as they had been led to believe.
Rather, she worked with the Grabber at the camp as a teenager and was killed by him after she discovered what he was up to, ultimately staging her death to look self-inflicted.
While certainly a surprising revelation, for many it felt like an overly desperate, contrived attempt to heighten the already-potent animosity between the kids and their tormentor.