The Signal(2007 / R)
"Imagine every cell phone, radio, and television in your city suddenly broadcasting the same mysterious signal over and over. Now imagine these "terminus" transmissions evoking violent, uncontrollable, psychotic chaos from everyone who comes in contact with them.
The Signal invades the minds of everyday citizens living their workaday lives and having their sordid affairs. Suddenly struck by the power of the insidious transmissions, they are compelled to kill or be killed. Complicating matters is a zombielike resistance some characters have to the idea of remaining dead. The story violently explodes, blending bloody gore with psychological satire, for a truly original horror experience. The Atlanta filmmaking team of David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry tell the eerie tale in three parts (cleverly called "transmissions"), shifting perspectives to draw out a larger story that explores dark secrets and fears as well as jealousy and betrayal." (imdb.com)
This was a near perfect movie! Horrific, funny, gory, crazy... just an overall pleasure to watch. The only reason I'm not going to give this a full 5 Bruce heads is because the ending didn't quite live up to the preceeding chunk of film (it kinda slowed down too much near the end), and also because one of the main characters kept reminding me of Screech from saved by the bell. Neither Screech himself or anybody that even remotely looks like him should be cast in any movie ever. It kept taking me out of the film and that pissed me off. But other than those minor complaints I highly highly recommend this movie!
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