The Signal Movie Review Trailer and Analysis

I didn't know much about the movie ‘The Signal' when I sat down to view it but from the moment I started to watch, I was instantly hooked.

The movie is written in 3 parts (transmissions) by three different writers from three different viewpoints. The first sets the story in motion, the second brings an element of comedy and the third wraps things up with a little romance added in for good measure.

It's like a well concocted blend of all the different ingredients needed to make a horror movie work, and although this isn't your standard edge of your seat, thrill a minute movie what it actually manages to be is something much more clever and completely unique. It frequently makes you question if what you are seeing is real and if you have the plot of the movie correctly sussed out, giving you as a viewer that same exact sense of paranoia that the characters themselves begin to feel as the movie progresses.

Here's the official synopsis:

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 transmission that preys on fear and desire driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy, the rebellious Ben must save the woman he loves from the bedlam in the streets as well as her crazed sadistic husband. But the only way he can tell who to trust or who has given in to violence is by uncovering the true nature of The Signal.

Told in three parts from three unique perspectives by three visionary directors, The Signal was originally conceived as an experimental film project called Exquisite Corpse where one filmmaker would begin a story then hand it off to another filmmaker to continue and then to another and so on until the movie was complete. The story eventually took shape and evolved into a scifi/ horror/thriller that imagines a world where everyday anxieties become the catalyst for inhuman terror. The Signal is a horrific journey towards discovering that the most brutal monster might actually be within all of us.

Now unlike the other film I just reviewed (The cellar door) this movie DOES live up to its synopsis and goes well beyond that. I don't think I have ever felt so many different emotions in one movie and maybe that's the element of genius behind my love of this film. It dares to be different and push the boundaries in terms of both gore and violence and doesn't take it for granted that we as viewers need everything dumbing down and explaining along the way.

My advice to you if you are considering watching this movie (which I hope you are!) is that you should go into it with a completely open mind, don't expect things to make sense right away and just see where the movie takes you and you won't be disappointed!

Watch the trailer below: