20 Rules You Must Follow To Survive A Slasher Movie

16. Get Your Car Checked, And Bring A Phone Charger

These are just basic life lessons really. You made sure that your car was healthy enough to drive you hundreds of miles from the city to the isolated backwoods, so surely you would also check that it's ready to start instantaneously in the unlikely event that you may need to make a quick getaway? The only excuse for not having a fully-primed escape vehicle is inclement weather like snow. Meanwhile, make sure your phone is always charged. In the 1980s/90s, this wasn't even an issue. The hero/heroine had to run for miles to find a payphone to call the police, only to realise that the lines have all come down in the storm. Now, slasher films are having to come up with very clever plot twists, like phones dying or a lack of signal, in order to isolate victims. The signal thing is fairly unresolvable, but you can at least make sure your phone won't die - even though you inevitably will.