The Signal

I just watched The Signal, and I gotta say it pretty much ruled. Sometimes you have to sift through a lot of slop to find the good stuff, and I’m glad I found The Signal because I was getting pretty tired of slop.

The premise is insanely simple: electronic devices start emitting strange and mysterious signals that brainwash about half the population and drive them to start killing the other half.

This horror movie has a mean streak a mile wide and also some great dark humor, my taut breathlessness was broken by outbursts of laughter, and my chuckles were interrupted by startled gasps. The violence is top-notch, at times cleverly executed off-screen and at other times thrown right in your face with such amazing craft that you will wonder how they ever pulled it off so beautifully. The story is airtight and character-driven, which gives the actors a chance to show that they have the chops to be completely believable and get you invested in their roles. You’ll find yourself really liking them and actually caring about what happens to them. There are no flat or cliche characters to be found here, which is pretty refreshing given a lot of the slop being dumped on horror fans these days.

Posted in: Horror Movies »  by: Morbidementia