(Most of which is integral to the story telling and explaining what has actually happened. Though the scenes they took from the book were fairly accurate, they cut out at least 40% of the content. (And funnily enough, even cast the same actors in my eyes for both Clay and Tom.) However, the final product for the big screen was such a let down. In short, another example of modern horror at its brutal and most thoughtful best.When I first read Cell many years ago, I instantly thought it could be transferred to an amazing movie. "The Signal" will surprise, thrill and terrify. Some visual and plot aspects may have suffered due to budgetary constraints, but therein also lies its charm. This original chiller is the American equivalent of "28 Days Later" mixed with Romero's "The Crazies" via Stephen King's novel "Cell". In a society where media has taken over every facet of our lives, technology is rife for abuse, and this movie exploits that paranoia to great dividends.
Brutal, dark and completely absorbing, this grainy DV effort is always believable and therein lies its power. Transmission 3 ties up the loose ends of the plot and weaves them all together in order that all main characters collide in a chaotic but much needed denouement. Transmission 2 looks at the ensuing madness from the perspective of one of the afflicted (a very creepy concept which is notoriously tough to execute, but is worked to almost perfection here), and laces it with more than just a smattering of very black humour. Transmission 1 examines the initial outbreak and its effects on the main protagonists. The film's three directors each take on board a different aspect of the overlapping narrative, with the running time evenly divided into 3 parts. Thrown into a violent and chaotic world, the story focuses on the three of them and the truth about their intertwining relationship as the city of Terminus literally goes to hell around them. Mya leaves Ben to return home to her husband only to find everyone going crazy. Suddenly the TV is blasted on, transmitting a noisy psychedelic signal which is echoed throughout every other media form from radio to mobile phones. The movie opens with a young couple, Mya and Ben, in a tryst where it soon becomes apparent that Mya is married but very much not in love with her husband, Lewis. Why? Because this movie is powerful, thoughtful and downright terrifying in its execution.
Let's hope that with "The Signal" however, this doesn't happen. Even as an avid horror buff, low budget titles like this tend to slip through the net usually simply due to their lack of big name distribution. From time to time, I stumble across movies that I know nothing about, and under normal circumstances probably wouldn't be that inclined to see.
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