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The minute Joe Hill saw The Grabber\u2019s mask, he knew \u201cThe Black Phone<\/a>\u201d could become a franchise.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mask was crafted by Tom Savini<\/a> and Jason Baker<\/a>,\u201d Hill<\/a> says. \u201cI saw the mask with its swappable mouths: Sometimes the devil face is grinning, sometimes it\u2019s frowning, and sometimes he has no mouth at all. I saw that mask and thought, \u2018Oh, I think there\u2019s gonna be a whole bunch of these movies.\u2019 It struck me as instantly iconic in the way Freddy Krueger<\/a>\u2019s glove is iconic, in the way Michael Myers\u2019 mask is iconic. I thought, \u2018This is nightmare fuel, and people are going to want a lot of it.\u2019 I thought he had the potential to become of these big, memorable ongoing horror villains, and if that\u2019s going to be the case,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spoiler Alert: This article contains very light spoilers about \u201cBlack Phone 2,\u201d now playing in theaters. The minute Joe Hill saw The Grabber\u2019s mask, he knew \u201cThe Black Phone\u201d could become a franchise. \u201cThe mask was crafted by Tom Savini and Jason Baker,\u201d Hill says. \u201cI saw the mask with its swappable mouths: Sometimes the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2099074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2099073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Black-Phone-2-Mastermind-Joe-Hill-on-How-He-Came.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099075,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099073\/revisions\/2099075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2099074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}