The Signal

As glasses are raised for a New Year's Eve toast, the denizens of the city of Terminus fall prey to a mysterious transmission that pulses through all electronic devices and transforms rational, sane people into murderous, rampaging psychopaths. All forms of communication have been jammed, and now ...more

An intimate study of the apocalypse, as seen from the perspective of a small group of survivors whose perception may or may not have been irreparably damaged by a sanity-scrambling transmission of unknown origins, David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry's ambitious sci-fi horror film fluctuates between horrific, hilarious, and hopelessly amateurish -- often in the course of a single scene -- but ultimately manages to frighten and surprise, thanks to the fact that these filmmakers were willing ...more