Q 01/05

In The Black Phone, which sport links Finney to Bruce, the first ghost to call him?

A) Baseball

B) Ice hockey

C) Football

D) Wrestling

Answer · why

A) Baseball

Baseball. Bruce won a game off Finney's pitching and told him his arm was mint; in the basement that same arm swings the phone receiver at the Grabber...

Q 02/05

The Black Phone is based on a 2004 short story by which author?

A) Grady Hendrix

B) Joe Hill

C) Stephen King

D) Paul Tremblay

Answer · why

B) Joe Hill

Joe Hill, author of Horns and NOS4A2, first published the story in 2004 and writes under a shortened form of his middle name, Hillström, to succeed on...

Q 03/05

Which short-story collection contains 'The Black Phone', the tale behind the film?

A) Night Shift

B) 20th Century Ghosts

C) Strange Weather

D) Full Throttle

Answer · why

B) 20th Century Ghosts

20th Century Ghosts, the author's 2005 debut book, held the story. In 2021 publishers reissued the whole collection under the title The Black Phone, a...

Q 04/05

Which actor plays the masked child-killer known as the Grabber?

A) Michael Shannon

B) Bill Skarsgård

C) Ethan Hawke

D) Sam Rockwell

Answer · why

C) Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke plays the Grabber. He had long avoided villains, believing that once an audience sees the demon inside an actor it never unsees it, but pa...

Q 05/05

Which young actor made his feature-film debut as Finney in The Black Phone?

A) Julian Hilliard

B) Walker Scobell

C) Mason Thames

D) Jacob Tremblay

Answer · why

C) Mason Thames

Mason Thames had never made a feature. After months of fruitless searching through agencies, an open call turned up his self-tape, and the director te...