It took about ten minutes of Mason Thames on the big screen in Regretting You for me to figure out who he was. I leaned to my friend and said, “That’s Black Phone.” By “Black Phone,” I did not mean the heavily marketed, Freddy Kreuger–esque villain of The Black Phone franchise — that’s the Grabber, played by Ethan Hawke and his abs. I meant Thames plays the ostensible lead of The Black Phone and Black Phone 2 : the child turned teen terrorized by the Grabber. The films have grossed more than $200 million worldwide. For $100, do you think you could name the character Thames plays in those movies? Nice try, but it’s Finney Blake, as in “Mason Thames is Finney Blake.”

Horror movies are not necessarily judged by your ability to remember a protagonist’s name, but 18-year-old Tham

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