The Signal (2007)
Today I finally get this blog started. It was a New Year’s resolution to get this thing going again. And what a choice! I get home from work and Netflix has sent The Signal. It’s a horror film, though I didn’t get very scared or anxious, in fact I laughed a fair amount (feel kinda weird about that given all the brutality).
This is a film by three directors, David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry. I didn’t recognize any of the actors. One of them, Justin Welborn, is in Final Destination and one of the Ben 10 TV shows. Aside from that, nothing rang a bell…
So, what’s it about? It’s about a strange “signal” that has invaded the tv and radio and telephone lines. Whoever listens to it, apparently, gets infected as it were and decides it’s a good idea to kill people, or later sees some dead people and thinks they are alive and well. The most clever part to all this mistaken identity is how the filmmakers swapped out the real person with the character they thought they were talking with. Something blocks the character from the camera for a split second and when they come back into the frame it is someone else. Nice.
The other part that I noticed, and you know its odd when you believe you recognize some of the streets or buildings, is that the film takes place in a city called “Terminus”, but actually filmed in Atlanta. Terminus was one of Atlanta’s first names, changed to Marthasville, and then Atlanta. I guess it distracted me to actually see something on the screen that I’ve seen in real life and so I missed a little of the action.
All in all, not a horrid horror movie, lots of blood, etc, gory enough to earn the R rating, but I put this in the category of movies that I will not take time to watch again. There are better things out there so no repeat viewing for me.
One last thing before I go … Interesting that the first movie I end up blogging about is how that television/radio get into your head and make you think what they want you to. Turing me into mush! haha! Also that it takes place on New Year’s Eve, back when I was making the decision to do something creative on the Internet – if you can call this creative! Well, enjoy!
2007 – Rated R. 103 minutes (1 hour 43 minutes). Good deal of blood, gore, killing, profanity, and rear male nudity plus a glimpse of a bottomless female but you don’t see anything.
I saw something about this on TV last night
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