Jan 9 2008'The Signal' Trailer and an Amusing, Topical Joke
In short, it looks like a 28 Days Later-esque tale in which TVs and other devices start receiving a mysterious signal that makes everyone want to kill each other, so they do. Hey, isn't that signal already called American Idol?! Now imagine a rimshot (or do it with your mouth, if you're telling this to a friend).
Reader Comments
1. Jake - January 9, 2008 5:05 PM
Sounds an awful lot like Stephen King's "Cell".
2. Grover - January 9, 2008 5:17 PM
Cell - Cell Phones + TV = The Signal
3. Brad Shiach - January 9, 2008 5:28 PM
Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this already well worn premise a direct uncredited lift of Stephen Kings "Cell"...?
4. masterless - January 9, 2008 6:08 PM
Its a lot like Cell too.
5. Harrison - January 9, 2008 7:07 PM
There's an episode of X-Files titled "Blood" that this is a direct ripoff of. It's a little cheesy, but it's solid. And it's better than this will be.
6. Chris - January 9, 2008 7:31 PM
If I were the producer that had to listen to this pitch, I'd just shoot myself in the face.
Well, after I shot the writer, anyways.
7. Zed - January 9, 2008 8:30 PM
Death to Videodrome!
All hail the New Flesh!
8. Noah - January 9, 2008 8:40 PM
This movie has received a ton of critical praise since it's debut early last year. I can't wait.
I also remember reading that the screenplay was written BEFORE the SK book.
9. YUMAYWANNAGETMEAKLEENEX - January 9, 2008 10:25 PM
So I was sitting in front of my computer practicing my "one-handed" typing and I was watching this trailer and found a way to hack the sound that they talk about in the trailer and I have discovered that it is a count down...
til they attack...
the cities...
with aliens...
Vivica...
We have one hope... get me Roland Emmerich.
10. Leah - January 10, 2008 10:55 AM
Geez... it's not like any ideas out there are completely new and original. My buddy Jacob and his film company Pop Films (see The Last Goodbye) produced this movie. It's not some big Hollywood jackfest, this is a film made by film buffs. It previewed at Dragon-Con last August and the crowd loved it. Check it out, if only for the blunt force head trauma scene halfway through. Gotta love good gore.
11. ChrisInNYC - January 10, 2008 11:17 AM
Me and a friend went to a screening of this a few months back and it was absolutely bad ass perfect, except for the sorta weak ending. There is so much violence and absurdity that I wound up laughing so hard I almost pulled my taint. OR had a hernia, whatever. This movie is woderful.
12. ChrisInNYC - January 10, 2008 11:26 AM
...And, might I add, it's a hell of a lot better than shit like 'The Eye' 'The Ring' 'The Grudge' 'One missed Call' and on and on. I'm not much of a film buff, so I don't pick every scene apart analyzing this and that, I just watch shit that looks good, and this movie was crazy good, just as good as '28 Days Later', and just as good as 'The Mist'. Everyone goes totally batshit crazy and kills, axes, knives, guns, lamps, pesticide sprayers, television sets, cell phones, baseball bats, etc. Lovely lovely violence. Pointless violence.
13. ChrisInNYC - January 10, 2008 11:28 AM
The very start of it is unrelated to the rest of the movie, and shot like an old 70's ultra-violent slasher flick with some creepy dude carving up two 20 something girls in a shack in the woods, and it just reminds you of how much better shit was back in the 70's.
14. soesghost - January 10, 2008 12:27 PM
Yup this looks almost as good as WHEN I READ THE BOOK IT WAS STOLEN FROM - GJ STEPHEN KING
very original to jack someone else's ideas and throw them up on screen
that said, I'll go see it anyhow because I love apocalypse / chaos movies :P
15. Alice - January 10, 2008 7:38 PM
Y'all, I heard this was a rip off of some Stephen King schlock called "Cell." Now, don't quote me, since I only heard it like five times in a row in these comments.
16. John - January 11, 2008 3:37 PM
it's worth mentioning that this movie is presented in three segments or chapters or whatever, each by a different director, and each part has a distinct style. big studios never take that risk, mostly because of the director's guild rules about film credits.
i think this film will be special... the older trailer is pretty cool as well.
17. KJ - January 13, 2008 9:56 PM
This makes me want to kill people!