Horror Movies' Phone-Call Horrors

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A Brief Taxonomy of Phone Calls in Horror Movies

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Horror movies often find themselves in situations involving the urgent need to make or receive phone calls.

This trope thrives in media set during the age of land lines, but it’s followed the genre into the smart-phone era.

The idea for this taxonomy actually came about because 1988âs 976 -EVIL, directed by Robert âFreddy Kruegerâ Englund , arrives on Shudder this month .

Horror characters in desperate need of a phone need to frantically call for help, send a life-or-death warning, or tap into GPS capabilities.

For land-line users, the cord might be cut, or the jack might be smashed and ripped out of the wall.

This brings an additional element of terror into the story because it means whoever wants to do you harm has already been in that room.

976 -EVIL arrives on Shudder March 15 .

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