The Signal
Dir: David Buckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry, 2007, 99′
IMDB Plot Keywords: Extreme Violence, Flashback, Poison, Beaten To Death, Loss Of Family
All the best horror movies deal with weird, unexplained shit happening on a large scale. We know this. The directors of the Signal (all three of them) know this, and they want us to know they know, so the film is littered with clever, knowing winks to other films. In the case of the Signal, the weird, unexplained shit is a signal on TV and phones that causes people to go crazy and start murdering other people. Not the most original of set-ups, but to make it interesting the filmmakers ditch the only sane character in the film after 25 minutes and spend the rest of the film concentrating on people who are dealing with actually having gone crazy. A good effort to put a new spin on an old formula, but unfortunately the movie is so wildly uneven, the whole thing ends up looking like an experiment in moviemaking onomatopoeia.
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