Signal, The

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Magnolia Pictures (99 minutes)
David Bruckner , Dan Bush , and Jacob Gentry
Robin Acker , Jeff Adelman , J. Howard Bach , Ben Bailey , Becky Ballard , Ngozi Lamar Beane , Biluxi , and AJ Bowen

Rating: R strong brutal violence throughout, pervasive language and brief nudity

Summary: 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 signal that preys on the fears and desires of everyone in the city. Told in three parts from three unique perspectives by three visionary directors, The Signal is a horrific journey toward discovering that the most brutal monster might actually be within all of us. (Magnolia Pictures)

Jeremy Knox
Film Threat:
(80) If you’re tired of zombie films or rabid people films, Signal is like a cool drink of water on a hot day. It’s got all the goodness from the best of those genres while creating its own niche at the same time.

Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle:
(78) Both apocalyptic and suitably vague, The Signal's only serious weakness comes from some borderline histrionic performances; then again, it's tough to call hysteria anything other than a sane response to a world gone mad. Crazy, man.

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe:
(75) The Signal is like a Romero zombie movie in which the zombies aren't dead, they're just really temperamental. Evil here is technology-born. Maybe our cellphones and satellite dishes are giving us all the crazy.

M. E. Russell
Portland Oregonian:
(75) The film suffers slightly from diminishing returns -- its first third is by far its scariest -- but it's still a bold, artful take on a popular horror idea.

Tirdad Derakhshani
Philadelphia Inquirer:
(75) The Signal has its share of things to say about urban paranoia, road rage, addiction - whether to sex, drugs or, more dangerously, consumerism. But it stands apart from other pictures of the same ilk by using its apocalypse as a backdrop to a bitter-sweet love story.

Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide:
(75) It has a creepy power all its own.

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