Backtrack vs Black Phone 2
Black Phone 2 has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 5.8/10 for Backtrack). Backtrack is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 54m. Backtrack is the older of the two (2015 against 2025). Both are horror, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Backtrack | Black Phone 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.8/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2015 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Michael Petroni | Scott Derrickson |
| Main cast | Robin McLeavy, Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, George Shevtsov, Matthew Sunderland | Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, Anna Lore, Demián Bichir, Mason Thames |
Synopsis
Backtrack
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making.
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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