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No Signal (and other cellular drama)

A montage of the most overused horror-cinema plot device, post-2000.

  1. password34
    February 15th, 2010 at 00:44 | #1

    it would take away the fun if they have cell phones

  2. saorlab
    February 15th, 2010 at 17:59 | #2

    Is there a compliation of punks getting their asses kicked in alleyways?
    Most recently in The Watchmen. A great cliche, that goes back the last century to the death of batman’s parents.

  3. ulriksj
    February 15th, 2010 at 23:20 | #3

    Take a look at “Fritt vilt”
    I hate dubbing…-.-

  4. smithyweremanjanson
    February 15th, 2010 at 23:23 | #4

    That movie Detour was god awful.

  5. Joeguy1092
    February 17th, 2010 at 02:12 | #5

    Isn’t that the one where the kids RV gets suck on a dirt mound and one by one they all start to get eaten by cannibals and all they really had to do is just use a jack to get it off the dirt mound.

  6. smithyweremanjanson
    February 17th, 2010 at 05:44 | #6

    Ya I got it for 1 dollar at Blockbuster a long time ago, the cover looked kinda cool but when I watched it was just one of those typical shitty low budget horror films with bad acting. Guess I got what I paid for. lol

  7. mkissa1
    February 23rd, 2010 at 20:50 | #7

    Yes “Donkey Punch” is an actual movie. It’s about a girl who got donkey punched while having sex and she ended up dead. Movie was pretty lame though.

  8. iLikeToast001
    March 22nd, 2010 at 23:01 | #8

    What movie was the last clip?

  9. Butiknyul
    March 25th, 2010 at 16:07 | #9

    the ruins :)

  10. undocumentedspot
    March 26th, 2010 at 15:01 | #10

    The hitcher is the worst no signal. they should’ve just drove away and leave that mf alone on the road.

  11. zudri28
    April 2nd, 2010 at 05:09 | #11

    wouu how many clips !!

  12. Jordacar
    April 12th, 2010 at 03:57 | #12

    There was a section of people losing their phones, right? I think you forgot ‘Superman Returns’ where Lois leaves hers in the car before investigating Lex’s yacht. Or does that not count?

  13. energizer61bunny
    April 18th, 2010 at 09:04 | #13

    wow…

  14. TheTinker19
    April 22nd, 2010 at 15:26 | #14

    Well this vid certainly proves that while the cellphone has certainly made lives easier, it hasn’t done the horror movie genre any favors.

  15. 15thPresident
    April 25th, 2010 at 00:56 | #15

    “Wait a minute… This has happened before…”

  16. thedefaultcode
    April 29th, 2010 at 05:52 | #16

    You dumbshit!

  17. erives174
    May 5th, 2010 at 15:39 | #17

    You know though, it seems that every time I’m stuck in a crappy situation, the same thing happens. 1. Stuck in the woods overnight, ONE bar on signal and ONE bar on battery life. Signal goes first, then battery, I spend the night in the woods.
    2. Car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, FULL battery. ONE signal bar that comes and goes. Doesn’t stay long enough to complete the call. I reach someone, but before I can give an address. NO BARS! … I’ve got plenty more, but I”m out of room here…

  18. HaoSci
    May 6th, 2010 at 03:14 | #18

    LOL. Come on, horror movie filmmakers need to be more creative in their thinking.

  19. WindCompass13
    May 6th, 2010 at 16:57 | #19

    they’ve better switched to another phone company…= =

  20. TheChanges23
    May 9th, 2010 at 13:21 | #20

    whats hilarious about this is Cell phones not breaking or having no signal is like a new horror/thriller cliche’. We all saw this coming a mile away, and now there’s so many flicks that use this its down right funny as hell…

  21. ro589
    May 13th, 2010 at 03:17 | #21

    Paris Hilton withoul phone? now that’s scary

  22. smartalec2718
    May 18th, 2010 at 19:45 | #22

    @VulpisFoxfire yeah, that’d be awesome. Or, a cell carrier (like a smaller, less well-known one) could pay for product placement in a horror movie…where everyone who has mainstream carriers like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, etc. has no signal so they die…but the one guy who has the obscure carrier has a signal and gets saved! That would be a great ad…

  23. stgm
    May 18th, 2010 at 23:45 | #23

    If I were to make a horror movie.. people wouldn’t have cellphones.

  24. codebreaker2001
    May 19th, 2010 at 00:49 | #24

    I think you should remove the cell phones from “The Mist”, “Quarantine” and “Saw” off. And I’ll explain why. Rarely, you never have a movie where a cell phone is knocked out by the weather (which can happen) as we see in “The Mist.” The cell phones in “Quarantine” were being jammed on purpose (which we rarely see, but is based on real technology) and the cellphone in “Saw” was hacked to not dial out (no different from the plate over the buttons of the cell phones in “Don’t Say A Word.”).

  25. digital785
    May 20th, 2010 at 12:21 | #25

    @codebreaker2001 Also in Eight Legged Freaks, he is able to use the phone, granted he has to climb to the top of a transmission tower to do it, but it’s still a signal.

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