Halloween<\/i> the movie would never work today, because the screaming babysitter could just call 911 from her cell phone while barricaded in the closet. Any movie involving nubile teens camping in the woods as a serial psychotic murderer stalks them now needs to deal with the fact that said teens today would be Tweeting the entire experience, or at least texting friends to come help them. Nobody is alone anymore. The cell-phone-problem (as it were) MUST be handled by horror and suspense films now, it can’t be ignored – otherwise current-day audiences just won’t believe that these people are 1. stranded 2. there’s no way out 3. there is no one who can save them.<\/p>\n
Check out this very funny and pointed compilation of scenes below – of various people trying to find signals, unable to find signals, commenting on their cell phone coverage in the middle of a horror film, lamenting that there are “no bars”, or – even more desperately – dropping their cell phones in puddles, or of scaffolding … ANYTHING to make sure that these people do not have cell phones<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Funny stuff. Kudos to Rich Juzwiak who put this together – it’s quite impressive. (Thanks to Edmund, for the clip<\/a>).<\/p>\n \n
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