...and fuck our way to freedom
10:37 PM 7/28/08 · The funny thing is The Signal wasn't what I thought it was. There's a movie where a signal comes through tlelevisions and changes people mentally. There's some kids unaffected by this who everyone starts trying to get to watch television so they can be effected and it is a horror/scifi flic...
...but that's not this movie.
Something that really hooked me to this movie was the fact that one of the main characters is a dead ringer for
Gremlin. Well, not exactly but the resemblance is stunning...to me. I was recently cleaning stuff around the house and I found I still had the invite to his Memoral Service, which has a number of pictures of him on it. The actor in question is Justin Welborn and he doesn't look exactly like him but once it hit me who he reminded me of I couldn't shake the association.
The Signal is largely about what it says. There's no specific indication as to where it originated but it's in telelvisions, radios, phones, and pretty much everything that people use to connect to the world. It slowly switches the way people perceive the world around them making them violently crazy. They remain, seemingly, surprisingly lucid but they're mainly focused on killing others as though it were a perfectly natural thing to do.
As you might imagine, this is not a good thing.
It starts a bit off topic, but not so you'd know it at first, and then switches to a very endearing and sweet moment. From there, things get progressively bizarre fast...with a dark comedy dealio roundabout the middle. The movie is broken into sections, each listed as "Transmission" with a corresponding number after it. The signal switches and revs up quite a bit as time goes on, with each section, and it's bizarre. Looks like a really warped version of the graphics that are optional viewing on a lot of mp3 players...
...but there's a lot going on in it. There's faces and words and popular symbols, I even saw the Burger King logo swim by briefly. I know this as one of the DVD's special features is the signal itself. I watched it for all of about 10 minutes before I couldn't take it anymore.
No murderous impulses so far.
Yay!
This movie was made with an extremely low budget, which made viewing the making of it really entertaining. I'd like to pop around and see if I can find anything else made by these guys. Sort of already have given that the off topic start is a short film they made years back, the full version is in the special features.
An odd thing is that the 2 main characters on the box don't look right. She does but he's got more hair on the cover than he does in the movie itself.
Go figure!
This is a really good movie and worth seeing...so long as blood and gore don't bother you that much.
...but that's not this movie.
Something that really hooked me to this movie was the fact that one of the main characters is a dead ringer for
Gremlin. Well, not exactly but the resemblance is stunning...to me. I was recently cleaning stuff around the house and I found I still had the invite to his Memoral Service, which has a number of pictures of him on it. The actor in question is Justin Welborn and he doesn't look exactly like him but once it hit me who he reminded me of I couldn't shake the association.
The Signal is largely about what it says. There's no specific indication as to where it originated but it's in telelvisions, radios, phones, and pretty much everything that people use to connect to the world. It slowly switches the way people perceive the world around them making them violently crazy. They remain, seemingly, surprisingly lucid but they're mainly focused on killing others as though it were a perfectly natural thing to do.
As you might imagine, this is not a good thing.
It starts a bit off topic, but not so you'd know it at first, and then switches to a very endearing and sweet moment. From there, things get progressively bizarre fast...with a dark comedy dealio roundabout the middle. The movie is broken into sections, each listed as "Transmission" with a corresponding number after it. The signal switches and revs up quite a bit as time goes on, with each section, and it's bizarre. Looks like a really warped version of the graphics that are optional viewing on a lot of mp3 players...
...but there's a lot going on in it. There's faces and words and popular symbols, I even saw the Burger King logo swim by briefly. I know this as one of the DVD's special features is the signal itself. I watched it for all of about 10 minutes before I couldn't take it anymore.
No murderous impulses so far.
Yay!
This movie was made with an extremely low budget, which made viewing the making of it really entertaining. I'd like to pop around and see if I can find anything else made by these guys. Sort of already have given that the off topic start is a short film they made years back, the full version is in the special features.
An odd thing is that the 2 main characters on the box don't look right. She does but he's got more hair on the cover than he does in the movie itself.
Go figure!
This is a really good movie and worth seeing...so long as blood and gore don't bother you that much.