10 Things To Avoid If You Want To Survive A Slasher Movie

In all honesty, cell phones must be one of the worst things to ever happen to horror movies, given that every slasher now has to find a way of explaining why the characters can't simply use their phone to call for help.

Back in the good old days, all you had to do for a gripping story was plop a bunch of teenagers away from civilisation to completely strand them at the mercy of serial killers but this is becoming impossible now with the widespread of mobile phones.

Hence the birth of the no reception/low battery trope, as a way for writers to offset this shortcoming. But it's become such a laughable cliché because it's almost as though the scriptwriters take cell phones for walkie talkies and don't realise that most modern phones allow long-distance calls and have batteries that last longer than 30 minutes.

It just makes you wonder what the killers would have done if their victims had been able to call the cops. (It's more likely that the cops would have been killed anyway because almost everyone in a slasher movie is as competent as a doorknob)

Movies like: 30 Days Of Night, The Strangers; The Blair Witch Project House on Haunted Hill (1999); Drag Me to Hell; Saw; as well as The Windmill Massacre; have all used this trope in one way or another.