Absentia vs Black Phone 2
Black Phone 2 has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 5.8/10 for Absentia). Absentia is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 54m. Absentia is the older of the two (2011 against 2025). Both are horror, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Absentia
Black Phone 2| Absentia | Black Phone 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.8/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2011 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 31m | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Horror, Mystery | Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Mike Flanagan | Scott Derrickson |
| Main cast | Doug Jones, Scott Graham, Justin Gordon, Dave Levine, Courtney Bell | Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, Anna Lore, Demián Bichir, Mason Thames |
Synopsis
Absentia
Tricia's husband has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia'. Tricia is reluctant, always holding out hope, but Callie is practical and wants her to move on. As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house.
Black Phone 2
Four years after escaping The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.
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