Once this crew is set adrift, bloody and terrified, we don’t leave their side as they’re hunted by a massive killing machine that’s hungry and annoyed that the war has come to its corner of the ocean.

A leaden bore, a movie that alternates between making no sense at all and insulting the intelligence of the audience.

Black Phone 2” takes place in 1982, a few years after Finney ( Mason Thames) made national headlines as the only survivor and ...