Anyone else getting fed up with mobile phones in horror movies?

Actually, given how close they were to the marina lights, I'd say they weren't more than a few hundred meters offshore.

On top of that, I think she says in that scene that she's trying to call the police back home. Maybe a local call would have worked but the long distance would be less reliable?

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I know that if the hero just called the police the moment the masked serial killer was outside it would make the film a lot shorter. But I'm just getting fed up with every time someone takes a mobile phone out of their pocket it's either low battery or no signal.

About the only film that got round it that I've seen in recent times in Funny Games (US) where the killer makes a point of disabling the phone before he strikes.

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I agree it's become the tired excuse for a lack of originality and it's been done to death. Pardon the pun!
I watched until the guy did the rabbit punch and killed the silly girl and couldn't bare to watch any more as it was that bad a film.

So, was there no ship to shore radio then.........:)

Since everyone has cell phones nowadays, if you didn't include a scene where the good guys try to call for help, everyone would say, "Well, how come they didn't try to use their cell phone?"

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