{"id":9509,"date":"2010-10-23T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9509"},"modified":"2010-10-23T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T14:37:11","slug":"no-signal-mobile-cell-phone-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/23\/no-signal-mobile-cell-phone-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"No Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XIZVcRccCx0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9510\" title=\"No Signal - Mobile phones in horror films\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/No-Signal-video.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mobile phone that has no signal is one of the most overused clich\u00e9s in modern horror.<\/p>\n<p>This montage of various films over the last decade shows just how common it has become.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XIZVcRccCx0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XIZVcRccCx0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Obviously it is a quick fix for a screenwriter trying to get around the logical problem of worried characters calling for help.<\/p>\n<p>But how about an original premise that inverts this\u00a0clich\u00e9, whereby having a signal is a major problem or dilemma for the main characters?<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2008\/sep\/14\/entertainment\/ca-cellfones14\">LA Times article on the problems of phones in movies<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/comedy.com\/2008\/10\/02\/how-cell-phones-would-ruin-movies-like-fight-club-and-forrest-gump\/\">How Cell Phones Would Ruin Movies Like Fight Club And Forrest Gump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A montage of films featuring the mobile phone with no signal, perhaps the most overused cliche in modern horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1617],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}