20 Things Horror Movies NEED To Stop Doing

Load up the trailer for any random new indie horror film and there's a roughly 50% chance one of the opening shots will be a drone shot - probably of a forest or a country road with a car driving through it.

With the increasing affordability of drones making it possible for even micro-budget filmmakers to use them, the past decade-ish of horror has been positively inundated with the same generic, unremarkable, over-familiar establishing imagery again and again.

Give them an extra ding if they decide to flip the drone shot upside down to convey "unease."

Sure, lower-budget filmmakers need all the help they can get to make their product look more expensive and get more eyeballs on it, but drones are so often used with little motivation or creativity in the horror genre that it's basically become a bit of a joke whenever they show up.

One of the few recent films to do anything clever or interesting with a drone shot, funnily enough, was the definitely-not-cheap Evil Dead Rise, which seemingly used a drone to show a supernatural presence gliding towards a character, only to reveal that it was in fact an in-movie drone.