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The Signal (2007)
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Reviews Counted:67
Fresh:36
Rotten:31
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: The Signal is gruesome, funny, and has big thoughts about society, but those disparate elements fail to come together convincingly.
Theatrical Release:Feb 22, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Much like 28 DAYS LATER, THE SIGNAL is a zombie film in disguise asking the question, "What would you do if everyone suddenly turned psychotic?" Conceived by Atlanta filmmakers Jacob Gentry, Dan... [More]
Starring: Anessa Ramsey, Sahr, AJ Bowen, Matt Stanton
Director: David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, Dan Bush
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Reviews for The Signal
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 1.5/4 |
...suffers from an increasingly uneven sensibility that ultimately becomes oppressive... Full Review |
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Funny, terrifying and haunting all at once, this tripartite vision of postmodern alienation, societal breakdown and mental disintegration is as arresting as a baseball bat to the head - while still cutting to the heart. Full Review |
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[A] cagey low-budget horror flick. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Esforçando-se ao máximo para alcançar o equilíbrio entre gore e paródia que transformou Uma Noite Alucinante em cult, esta bomba torna-se risível apenas pela incompetência generalizada com que foi realizada.
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2.5/4 |
It's definitely an interesting premise and the three filmmakers almost pull it off, but the last ten minutes were a bit of a disappointment to me. Full Review |
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This is much more than a typical genre piece; it's a sort of hip, almost punk, combination of drama, science-fiction and horror. Full Review |
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2/5 |
The Signal has an incredibly interesting premise, which makes it all the more disappointing that filmmakers David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, and Dan Bush really have no clue what to do with it. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The film is both an impressive "calling card" work for the filmmakers and a failure as an actual film. Full Review |
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A bloody banquet of excessive, tasteless gore, but with an odd infusion of unsavory humor that never meshes with the horror. Think fatal car crash with a laugh track. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
All I kept writing down in my notes during the movie was "gruesome" "I can't breathe" "My stomach is in knots." Full Review |
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4/5 |
In the end THE SIGNAL will burn it's transmission into your brain and leave you with an impression that will never go away. This is that film that leaves you with that special glow (yes, kind of like after sex), the smile that doesn't fade and the convers Full Review |
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3/6 |
Too fuzzy and indistinct to work on either a literal or a metaphoric level, The Signal nonetheless pulses with enough random static to hold viewers’ attention. Full Review |
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For a soup overseen by three cooks, the whole works reasonably well, with some pretty complex interlocking, A must for fans of nonlinear storytelling. Full Review |
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3/5 |
tone shifts awkwardly to a Shaun of the Dead-meets-Fido-style satirical commentary on domestic life Full Review |
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5/10 |
The Signal reveals killer horrors skills on the part of Bruckner, and to a lesser extent of Gentry and Bush. So if you don't mind a film that starts strong and finishes weak, check it out. Full Review |
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7/10 |
It's a pity that the film isn't a little bit better, to really do the concept justice. It's not a bad movie...but it's not at all good in the ways that you'd hope. Full Review |
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You, too, may be feeling violently angry by the time the movie ends. Did the writers-directors sprinkle their reels with the script's airwave-riding rage-ohol? Nope: The Signal just sucks. Full Review |
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It's all screwball fun until someone gets bugsprayed down the throat. Full Review |
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8/10 |
The perversely funny, consistently spooky and pornographically violent The Signal, is the first great cult hit of 2008. Full Review |
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Has a certain gritty punch...but in the end it doesn't amount to much but the usual genre static. Full Review |
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August 24, 2008:
OtherCool.com: A bloody banquet of excessive, tasteless gore, but with an odd infusion of unsavory humor that never meshes with the horror. Think fatal car crash with a laugh track. 
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February 19, 2008:
A bloody banquet of excessive, tasteless gore, but with an odd infusion of unsavory humor that never meshes with the horror. Think fatal car crash with a laugh track.
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