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The Signal Details

2007 Certificate 18
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It's New Year's Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year's resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic transmission that preys on fear and desire driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy, the rebellious Ben .. Read more

Starring Anessa Ramsey, Sahr, AJ Bowen, Matt Stanton
Director David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, Dan Bush
Genres Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller

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The Signal

It's New Year's Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year's resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic transmission that preys on fear and desire driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy, the rebellious Ben must save the woman he loves from the bedlam in the streets as well as her crazed sadistic husband. But the only way he can tell who to trust or who has given in to violence is by uncovering the true nature of The Signal. Told in three parts from three unique perspectives by three visionary directors, The Signal is a horrific journey towards discovering that the most brutal monster might actually be within all of us.

Starring Anessa Ramsey, Sahr, AJ Bowen, Matt Stanton, Suehyla El-Attar, Justin Welborn, Cheri Christian, Scott Poythress, Christopher Thomas
Director David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, Dan Bush
Studio OPTIMUM RELEASING
Run time DVD: 1 hr 39 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 43 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released DVD: 06 Apr 2009
Blu-ray: 06 Apr 2009
Production year: 2007
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of

    Too fuzzy and indistinct to work on either a literal or a metaphoric level, The Signal nonetheless pulses with enough... read more on Time Out

    • Joshua Rothkopf, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 41 out of 43 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    The greatest film of the year that no one has seen

    This is without doubt or hesitation the best film of 2008 and no one seems to know it exists. THE SIGNAL is a blend of horror and subtle humour and from the opening scenes to the end credits is a captivating and creative edge of the seat roller coaster ride experience. The best way I can describe the signal is as FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS meets 28 DAYS LATER. If you haven’t seen this film and I doubt you have then rent this movie now you won’t regret it.

      • A customer from Newport
      • Posted 18 Dec 2008 14:05

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  • 12 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    Absolutely Abysmal

    I haven't written a review here in a very long time but I felt driven to after watching The Signal. I'm a huge horror fan, and I'll watch virtually anything in the horror genre. However this turkey was so astonishingly, mind-bogglingly bad that I felt the need to warn ahead in case others get suckered like I did. The review is spoiler free, though, in case you really feel masochistic!

    The online trailers looked good and atmospheric, with a suitably apocalyptic feel to proceedings. However within the first half-an-hour it becomes apparent that something is dreadfully wrong - the film lurches in ints second part from serious horror into broad, badly-acted comedy. I was completely bewildered by this uneven and unwelcome change in tone until I saw the credits for the film - it is directed by three different people, a section each, with absolutely no regard for coherence and consistency of pace or tone. Within 40 minutes the whole thing has fallen apart completely. Worse, it isn't a portmanteau film, so characters who have been behaving seriously in the first part suddenly start cracking deadpan jokes and falling about to comedy music. It really is awful stuff.

    Don't be fooled - you can consider yourself warned now! Rent [Rec] instead - now that's a scary film alright.

      • A customer from Liverpool
      • Posted 29 Apr 2009 17:49

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