They can get easily broken

maybe the horror creature fucks with your phone. e.g. you tap the screen desperately, it won't respond, it starts vibrating weirdly (within the limits of a phone) or maybe the screen pixels start spelling out weird shit. demonic faces, e.g. your Mum "calls" you, it's actually the demon fucking around with you.

Set it in an alternate reality where phones don't exist.

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Phone gets soaked/smashed/broken while fleeing from the monster. If it's a whole group of people the monster has electric interference or some shit. Who would you need to call anyways? 911 is not gonna kill a fucking monster, m8. If it's a human horror flick then the bad guy gets your phone somehow.

>>67104173
Takashi Miike already did it, and Ed Burns already Americanised it. Guess which one was a masterpiece and which one was lacklustre.

You cant find your phone

>>67104339

what's the name of Miike's adaptation? i've only seen audition and i'm interested in exploring his filmography.

>>67103399
Funny Games and particularly Funny Games US did it perfectly.

Those aren't really regular horror films, though (if you would even call them horror).

>>67104624

One Missed Call (2003). Deconstructed the shit out of J-Horror so hard it pretty much killed the genre at the time.

Phone breaks or something

Do what Scream did and make the phone one of the villains tools.

If you have your phone on you, I can know where you are at all times.

Also, spiritual entities/ghosts don't give a fuck about phones.

>>67103399
The battery runs out faster than a nigger runs out of a house he tried to rob

>>67104664

I call them shit.

>>67105127
That is good

>>67105200
Pleb.

Something like The Ring where the spooky ghost has some control over the phone. Like whenever you call someone you just hear the ghost taunting you.
Or maybe the ghost starts off weak but every time you make a phone call it gets stronger.