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Finney Blake is the main protagonist of the 2022 horror film The Black Phone.
He was portrayed by Mason Thames.
Biography[]
Film[]
Finney Blake is introduced as a reserved and timid 13-year-old boy with a rough life. He tends to not stick up for himself, leading to vicious bullying by classmates looking to take advantage. Unfortunately, things are not much better at home; his father is an abusive alcoholic presumably due to his wife's suicide and frequently takes out his anger by beating his two children. Finn walks on eggshells at home and school, never advocating for himself or possessing any sort of confidence to stand up to his adversaries. He looks up to people like his sister Gwen, who helps defend him from his bullies, and his friend and classmate Robin, who exudes fearlessness in schoolyard fights.
While walking home from school one day, Finn is abducted. His kidnapper is the infamous Grabber, a local serial killer that has been stalking the area and the culprit behind his friend Robin's and acquaintance Bruce Yamada's disappearances. Locked in his soundproof basement, Finn uses a phone to communicate with the Grabber's deceased victims, who insist on making sure Finn escapes alive. They help him by giving him tips on what they did during their time in the basement, such as breaking a hole in the wall that leads to a freezer, using a wire as a weapon, digging a hole, and unlocking a padlock on the back door of the house. Simultaneously, Gwen searches for him through the use of her prophetic dreams.
After attempting to escape once and getting caught, the Grabber then prepares to kill Finn. Using the items he received from the other children and motivated by a powerful pep-talk from Robin, Finn easily overpowers the Grabber, tricking him into falling through the hole and bludgeoning him with the phone, finally strangling the killer with the phone cord.
Finn then escapes into the neighborhood where he is met with Gwen and the police in tow. The officers find the killer's body, along with the bodies of the other five deceased children buried across the street. Finn reunites with his sister and father, despite the latter apologizing to both children for his abuse, they do not verbally accepts his apology as they tell the cops he was abusing them, he later was arrested and was disowned as a father by the kids. At school, Finn has gained confidence. He is finally left alone by his trio of bullies and is now willing to speak with his crush, who admires him for his bravery.
Powers & Skills[]
Powers[]
- Mediumship via; (ability to hear the phone): Like his sister, Finn inherited psychic abilities from their mother whereas in his case the ability of communicating with dead spirits (mediumship). Blake displays this power when hearing the black telephone ringing when the Grabber kidnapped him into the soundproof basement informing that the phone hasn't worked in years for him. As the teenager answers calls, he talks to the previous victims who were held captive themselves and informs Finn of their background including support.
Skills[]
- Strategist: After being captured by the Grabber, the boy takes advice from the previous victims by strategizing ways to confront the latter up close. As the boy sets a trap in the basement by digging a hole to the floor and places the metal fence from the window onto the bottom before placing a mattress over it to conceal its notification as well as attaches a screw-in circular eye hold to the side where he wraps a rope with. On the next coming day the Grabber comes downstairs to the basement with an Axe and his pit-bull dog, surrounding Finn about to swing at him until he evades it to reach the corner of the trap where the evil counterpart walks forward only to be tripped by the rope Blake pulled and falls in with his foot gets bended due to the impact of the metal fence before the young latter pounds him to death as well as tosses a piece of meat to move the pet away from the door so the boy can walk upstairs and outside.
- Combatant: Throughout the film, it is show that Blake isn't much of a fighter as he has been bullied and beat up numerous occasions. Until his abduction he was the sixth victim before using a knife in self-defense to slice the Grabber's arm which failed but with the power of mediumship one of his deceased friend guides him how fight hand-to-hand brawling techniques by using the telephone as a melee weapon filling it with concrete dirt to increase its damages. As Finn studies his friend's spiritual stances to lean backwards, briefly up front. back again, before making harden swinging strikes at opponents this works after the Grabber gets lured into the teenager's set trap and performs the stance he was train with on the latter successfully subduing him before he strangles his neck with the cord of the phone and kills him.
- Intelligence: Finney Blake is a well scholar middle school student that he claimed he wouldn't need a partner for his science class and can handle it alone even before Donna paired herself with him but overtime this intellect came in use once he gets captured. Learning that the basement was soundproof he looks around the area finding spots to dig up and knew that leaving the dirt noticeable would be suspicious to the capturer and flushes them in the toilet completely hiding the evidence.
- Determination: During the film, Finn was noticeably a somewhat coward towards tragic situations that he usually choose to walk, hide, and runaway from instead of confronting them. However in his experience in being held captive by the Grabber, he tried many ways to figure out how to escape by trying numerous solutions with the guidances of the dead victims spirits who contacted him through the phone they inform him of all the the Evil counterpart's methods and made Finn desperate to get out until he gets caught outside and beaten unconscious to end up back in captivity. Feeling almost defeated and watches the death of Max, he listened to Robin the victim before him and his friend to encourage that Finn was always a fighter as he never stopped with efforts and to use it to avenge his fallen and confront against the latter when time was right. With this newfound determination the younger teenager sets out a trap for the capturer to be subdued by his wits, brawling skills, and bravery successfully killing him, avenging the deceased, and freeing himself to be reunited with family as well as being announced around the community about his accomplishment he has become dreaded by the bullies of his school and build confidence to be more openly social.