#THE GRABBER SERIAL#
#THE GRABBER CODE#

Distraught, Finney has a breakdown as the phone rings again. Learning of a hole in the wall, Finney grabs the toilet lid and breaks his way through the wall only to realize he was trapped behind a refrigerator. He grabs him and threatens to gut him and use his intestines to strangle the life out of him should he scream, before knock him out.īack in the basement, Finney gets a call from a punk named Vance. Unfortunately, the Grabber's dog alerts its master and the Grabber sprints after the young boy. After unsuccessfully trying to undo the lock, Finney finally finds the combination and flees. Finney takes advantage of this and sneaks upstairs. He also senses that the Grabber was asleep.

#THE GRABBER CODE#

Meanwhile, Finney receives another phone call, this time from Griffin, who explains that the Grabber took a lock from his bike and used it to lock the front door, but Griffin has written the code on one of the basement wall. She then dials the police to investigate. However, that too fails.įinney's sister Gwen has several visions in her dreams describing the Grabber's abductions until she learns the address to what she assumed was the Grabber's lair. Explaining that the Grabber deliberately leaves the door unlocked so he could beat the child to death in a game of 'Naughty Boy,' Billy has Finney find a chord that he tried to use to escape through the window. Showing that’s how he knows his name.Īfter that fails, Finney is stopped from going upstairs by another ghost child named Billy. Finney instead lies leading to the Grabber becoming enraged and angrily smashing the plate containing eggs and a soda bottle on the ground and revealing a newspaper detailing his disappearance. Sometime later, the Grabber offers Finney food and tells him that he thinks to let him go but asks him what his name was. Finney does as he is told and covers the hole with a rug.

He tells Finney that there was a floor tile that he tried to dig out before being stopped by the Grabber. While trapped, Finney receives a call from Bruce who had no recollection of his life prior to his kidnapping and untimely end. Trapping him in the basement, the Grabber, now wearing a mask, informs Finney that he won't hurt him, that nothing bad will happen to him anymore and that the black phone on the wall doesn't work when the boy tried to use it (this is later debunked by the ghost boys who confirm that he actually can hear them). In 1978, the Grabber kidnaps Finney when he lured him into helping him after dropping his groceries. He seems to have the same abilities than Finney has by being able to hear the black phone too, even if he denies it, claiming it's just static electricity sparking the phone's exposed wiring. He had killed a total of five children, with Finney Blake's friends Bruce and Robin being his latest victims. He would eventually kill the boys and bury the bodies in a house across the street. For reasons unknown, the Grabber abducts young boys and imprisons them in his basement unbeknownst to his brother. What is known is he lives with his drug addict brother in a Denver suburb and has a day job.

#THE GRABBER SERIAL#

Not much is known about the serial child murderer known as the Grabber. He was portrayed by Ethan Hawke, who also played Martin Asher in Taking Lives, The Fizzle Bomber in Predestination and Arthur Harrow in Moon Knight. He is the archenemy of the film's protagonist Finney Blake. By the time of the film's events, the Grabber kidnaps Finney Blake, intending to keep him trapped in his basement for the rest of his life, before changing his mind later in the film and wanting to torture and kill him instead. He is a serial child abductor and killer who preyed on the boys of a Denver suburb. ~ The Grabber instructing Finney to hang up the phone.Īlbert Shaw, better known as The Grabber, is the main antagonist of the 2022 supernatural horror film The Black Phone, which is based on the 2004 short story of the same name by Joe Hill from his 20th Century Ghosts collection.

~ The Grabber trying to reassure Finney Blake after abducting him. Because nothing bad is going to happen to you here.

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