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Director Scott Derrickson is not a stranger to sequels, per se, but he’s also not one to indulge in them too often. To be sure, he began his career co-writing the sequel “Urban Legends: Final Cut” and then co-writing and directing “Hellraiser: Inferno,” the fifth entry in that series, both in the same year<\/a>. Ever since then, Derrickson’s only been involved with one sequel, “Sinister 2,” which he co-wrote and produced but did not direct<\/a>. This weekend, “Black Phone 2” hits theaters<\/a>, and it’s the first fully-fledged Derrickson sequel: a movie that he has co-written and directed, which is a direct follow-up to “The Black Phone,” a film that he also co-wrote and directed.<\/p>\n However, it so happens that “Black Phone 2” is not the only other film in the world of “The Black Phone.” In “V\/H\/S\/85,” Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill contributed the segment entitled “Dreamkill,”<\/a> in which visions of several brutal murders are coming to a teenage boy in his dreams, which he’s then able to somehow record to videotape. This supernatural psychic ability is highly similar to the one seen in “The Black Phone,” and it turns out that the characters in each who have these gifts are related by blood. Thus, “Dreamkill” exists in the world of “The Black Phone,” which means that Scott Derrickson has made a secret little horror cinematic universe all his own.<\/p>\n