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In the American remake of The Grudge, this happens to one of Kayako's victims, Susan.and yet it's been walking and talking as advertised since they bought it. Possibly the creepiest moment in Child's Play occurs when the mother of the family realizes there are no batteries in the Chucky doll.

When the phone rings at the appointed time, he decides he doesn't want to answer it, and he unplugs and smashes the phone.

In The Mothman Prophecies, protagonist John Klein has been promised a call from his long-deceased wife.

Howard!' They get frustrated and destroy the paging system but it continues to page them, even as they're shooting it, until it says, 'Oh, they got me!' The three play doctors and are constantly being paged, 'Dr.

Played strictly for laughs in The Three Stooges short 'Men in Black' ( no relation).

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Not only does the game un-pause itself, leaving his avatar standing inert while its enemies close in, but the van's power locks and windows seal themselves so he can't get to the controls. He pauses the game to fetch something from the real house, leaving the console inside his van.

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In Stay Alive (2006), a film in which players of a video game die if their game-avatars do, one character uses a portable game console to send his avatar into the game's analog of a real haunted house.

Maximum Overdrive has a few scenes that fall under this trope, notably the electric carving knife that turns on and attacks a waitress.

In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Heather's son keeps watching the original Вґ A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), even after Heather pulls the plug on the TV.

He's still able to call, however, and mock her about Glen's upcoming death.

In the original A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Nancy yanks her phone out of the wall after she gets a call of Freddy's trademark claw scraping noises.

Hitting it with a metal baseball bat causes the bat to shatter.

Weird Science features a computer that goes wild.

The horror film 1408 had a hotel alarm clock/radio that went off even after it was unplugged.

They are essentially having a remote-of-war.

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An amusing subversion in the original Poltergeist: the family's television keeps changing channels on its own, only to have them discover that the neighbor's TV remote uses the same signal.

While a child is watching a kids' program in Stir of Echoes, the television keeps changing channels to show the original Night of the Living Dead (1968).

At the end of the movie, the protagonist is trying to reverse his sudden adulthood, and at first only gets normal fortunes out of the machine - until he realizes that it's actually plugged in, and swiftly pulls out the plug to set it back in 'magic mode'.

In Big, the fortune-teller machine works despite not being plugged in.

In Bruce Almighty, Bruce gets a call on his pager from the same number, even after ripping out the battery, hurling it out of the window, and watching it get run over.

and it gets REALLY WORSE for him afterwards.

Then the mechanism gets stuck, showing a still frame of the victim looking just like Sadako. When he reviews the footage, he tries to delete the interview. Asakawa's former assistant, now investigating the urban legend himself, records footage of a Cursed Video victim and promises to watch the tape so she can be spared. A variation, 'It won't delete,' from the Japanese sequel Ring 2.Even that fails, and he instead picks up his video camera and tries to film her, but Samara then attempts to grab Jake face-first through the camera's screen. The short film Rings (which bridges between the two American Ring films) takes this up a notch: the protagonist Jake Pierce sees Samara trying to come out of his TV, and when unplugging it doesn't work, he grabs a small lamp and tries smashing it against the TV screen.And to make things worse, this version is even longer than the actual tape that was shown in the film, with more disturbing content to go with it. It is possible to access a recording of The Tape that, once started, cannot be stopped by any means (presumably, short of unplugging the player, manually turning off your TV, or hard-resetting your computer). One of the DVD special features combines this with The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You.

For a split-second, the TV (which isn't even plugged in) has an image of a silhouette peering down into the well.

In the American remake, when Rachel and Noah climb down beneath the cabin to find the well, Samara's Psychic Powers turn on the TV, then unscrew the floorboards so that it slides down and crashes into Rachel, sending her down the well.

In The Ring, at the start, one of the characters has this problem with a screen showing static.

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