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Short Movie Review: The Signal (2007)

Posted by AbsurdRandomness - May 18th, 2008


I understand why this film receives mixed critic reviews, and why no has actually bothered to see it. It's an uncompromising, audacious, complex film about paranoia, jealousy, and anarchy.

The film begins with a young, married woman (late 20s or so) getting ready to go home after a nice, long "sexual intercourse" with her lover. When she arrives home, everything almost immediately falls apart, beginning with her husband fervently questioning her where she was all day while his friends try to mend a broken TV. We can see the anguish and suspicion in his eyes, but he embraces her anyway, to show he still loves her and can't live without her. Afterwards, he orders her to take a shower, and as she's walking by the hallway to the bathroom, her husband attacks and kills one of his friends holding a bat, fearing he was about to hurt his wife. Hell breaks loose instantaneously, with everyone in the apartment building attacking and killing everyone they see. She tries to escape with one of her husbands' friends, but he eventually detaches himself from reality and his views become violent, twisted and disarrayed.

And all of a sudden, the film shifts genre, to the point of view of a different, but related character. This triggers a series of perplexing events, changing from an absurdist comedy to an effective, terrifying horror film, at times directly.

At this point, the film becomes an incisive exploration of both horror film clichés' and the human mind at its most vulnerable and delusional. It becomes a gripping roller-coaster ride of paranoia and deceit. All the while maintaining that raw, gritty feeling of 70s horror.

This is not a perfect film, at times the films' themes become muddled and at times unfairly ORGANIZED, and its ending was frustratingly incomprehensible, but for the most part it was an entertaining, thrilling, parallax fun.

8.5/10


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