The Signal
by Dan Bush, David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry
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Actor: AJ Bowen, Anessa Ramsey, Justin Welborn, Sahr Ngaujah, Scott PoythressDirector: Dan Bush, David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry
Brand: SIGNAL, THE (DVD MOVIE)
Writer: Dan Bush
Writer: David Bruckner
Writer: Jacob Gentry
Producer: Alexander Motlagh
Producer: David C. Ballard
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Magnolia
Movie Reviews of The Signal
Movie Review: entertaining horror comedy
Summary: 3 Stars
***1/2
"The Signal" starts off like a straightforward horror film on the order of "Night of the Living Dead" or "28 Days Later," but about a third of the way through, it turns into a tongue-in-cheek parody of the whole apocalyptic-thriller genre.
It's New Year's Eve, and a mysterious, hypnotic signal is being broadcast on TVs and radios across the planet, resulting in a mass psychosis that turns ordinary, average citizens into cold-blooded killers.
This is a fun, good-natured spoof that is as creepy as it is amusing, at least up to a point. That point is passed a few times when the movie turns a little more gruesome and sadistic than it really needs to be. Yet, despite having to work with an extremely low budget, directors David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry and Dan Bush do an effective job creating a post-apocalyptic atmosphere, while the script, co-written by all three men, employs a canny combination of flashbacks and fantasy sequences as part of the narrative.
A spirited and unnerving parable about urban paranoia, "The Signal" should delight fans of offbeat horror.
Summary of The Signal
Its new years eve in the city of terminus & chaos is this years resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by a mysterious transmission that preys on fear & desire driving everyone in the city to murder & madness. Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 06/10/2008 Run time: 94 minutes Rating: RThe Signal proves once again budget restraints prove no barrier to ingenuity: this scruffy, rough-around-the-edges horror film has a strong central idea and a habit of jolting you with real shocks. Something in TV and radio transmissions is getting into the brains of ordinary people and turning them into homicidal maniacs--something other than the usual homicide-inducing stuff, that is. (Incidentally, this movie was shot before the arrival of Stephen King's novel Cell, which has a similar idea.) We learn the concept in a nerve-slicing opening act, as a young woman (Anessa Ramsey) leaves her extramarital fling (Justin Welborn) to tell her husband she's splitting. Unfortunately, this is the moment a mysterious signal has infiltrated TV transmissions and cell phones, turning most of humanity, or at least the people living in the city of Terminus, into murderous savages. Serves them right for living in a city called Terminus. Why some people get "the Crazy" and some people don't is one of the problems with the film--horror movies generally rely in certain rules to carry them through--although the biggest issue viewers might have is the hodgepodgey style. Three Atlanta-based directors, David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, and Dan Bush, helmed the three distinct sections of the movie; thus the exciting opening is followed by a jarringly comic second act, and wrapped by a somewhat bleak finale. There's enough invention here to justify the film for genre buffs, despite the nagging feeling that it doesn't quite hold together. --Robert Horton
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