‘The Black Phone 2’ Review: The Grabber May Be Gone, but His Ghost Is Still Calling in Hypnotic Follow-up

Not that long ago, I had a conversation about horror movies with Variety’s former chief Asia film critic in which I mentioned that ghost stories (especially the Japanese kind, where spirits haunt the living until some unresolved injustice from their past can be rectified) don’t really scare me, because ghosts aren’t real. Oh, but they […]