• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml
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    Any movie where 1 cell phone would resolve the situation. A lot of serial camper killers would get shut down pretty fast.

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      Just put the camp outside of cell service. Plenty of camping in the mountains outside of cell service.

      Still fully believable

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      Logical solutions to problems don’t happen in many kinds of horror movies. Even the tiniest bit of common sense applied would destroy so many, cell phones or no.

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        Our group of teenagers should definitely split up to search for the monster and/or serial killer!

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          Rather than making a swift exit to anywhere else, we should instead hide in this building where we think the killer is

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            Oh my god! It’s the killers childhood home where he brutally killed one of his family members in each room! Let’s hide in there, but we should each find a hiding spot in a different room.

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            Let’s walk right by the car we got here in and go house in the creepy building that we think the killer lives in and that we were too scared to enter before he killed our friends!

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        That’s why I love Cabin in the woods. They make it a creepy movie, but also make fun of all the common horror tropes by having the haunted grounds be a very orchestrated event.

        “Oh no my cell phone doesn’t work” It’s because the creepy org turned on a cell phone jammer

        “Why don’t they just leave?” The creepy org blows up a shit load of tnt to make the tunnel collapse

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          “Why don’t they find an alternate route out?” The creepy org put a fucking force field around the area.

          That movie definitely ventured in to silly territory, but then it was quite directly a well-meaning parody of horror movies that kinda’ HAD to get a bit silly to do too much with the premise.

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        It would be kinda funny for someone to make something that starts as a horror movie but then everyone acts in a sensible manner without contrived reasons for their efforts failing, resulting in the whole dangerous situation falling apart over the course of the plot until its more a sort of parody of horror movies than a proper example.

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          That’s just a normal movie

          The best horror movies are the ones where all the characters act in a highly capable and intelligent way and the monster/force/whatever still keeps beating them. Like The Thing. Or Alien.

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          I want a horror movie where some of the heroes are genre-savvy, Practical Guide to Evil style. I picture it starting as a horror, and shifting into a kind of heist storyline

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      There are also a swath of movies that couldn’t be made because of the ubiquity of surveillance cameras.

      Who did it!?! ~Checks camera~

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          Heh in the new Mission Impossible, it’s

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          a scary computer program interfering with the audio/video feeds so you couldn’t rely on them. Pretty well done overall, not bad at least.

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      Commando. Arnold spends a good chunk of the movie stopping people from getting to a pay phone to let the bad guy know he escaped their custody

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      Not just cellphones but every house now is equipped with a camera on the doorbell and possibly several more throughout the house. Back in the day serial killers basically just had to not be around when the police showed up and had a pretty good chance of just getting away

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      Introduce a character that’s a teacher so sick of cellphones in their class they bought a jammer off the internet. Make that character the serial killer’s first victim.