20 Recent Horror Movies That Made ONE Big Mistake
19. Nobody Dies - Black Phone 2
Black Phone 2 was a bit of a mixed bag as sequels go, and one of the big criticisms of Scott Derrickson's stylish follow-up is the fact that, believe it or not, nobody dies in the movie.
Now to be totally fair, we do see The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) murder three children, but these brief sequences are flashbacks which took place decades before the events of the main story, alongside another scene revealing that the Grabber killed Finney (Mason Thames) and Gwen's (Madeleine McGraw) mother Hope (Anna Lore) years prior.
Elsewhere the Grabber himself "dies" again at the end, but in terms of flesh-and-blood characters in the main 1982 timeline, not a single character is killed off despite the sequel a sizable roster of potential victims.
While it would've been a cop-out to turn Black Phone 2 into a generic slasher movie, it still feels like the sequel was lacking some stakes and visceral impact as nobody dies in the present timeline.