There’s a reboot of Nightmare on Elm Street in theaters, and the new Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley), is going to have to contend with something Robert Englund never had to face in the original: cell phones.
If teens in peril can just pull out their phones to call for help, the scary movie just isn’t as scary. The result is a new horror movie truism: Cell phones only work until Freddy or Jason show up.
This necessitates the disabling of cell phones. There are four basic limitations in the horror film provider package:
There’s no signal. This method is employed in the upcoming film The Human Centipede and in the remake of The Hills Have Eyes.
Limited cell phone battery life. It’s even shorter than the life of a teenager in a horror film, especially when you’ve got chatty friends like the characters in The Roost.