31 More Days of Horror: The Signal (2007)

When a signal sent out across phones, televisions, and radios cause the citizens of Terminus to become crazed, murderous freaks—look out! We see humanity explode into hate-filled rage in three gory transmissions told through three distinct perspectives.

A faithless wife tries to reach her lover who gave her a kick-a$$ mix tape the previous night. In the meantime, she crosses paths with her ex-husband. Violent, yet humorous narratives overlap to create perfect 21st Century paranoia.

Transmission 1 explores the initial outbreak of ‘the crazy’ and its immediate effects on our trio. Transmission 2 is where everything amps up. With brutality and black humor, Transmission 2 finds gruesome maniacs wreaking havoc in the city, but we focus on the husband--raging with jealousy--and his weapon of choice: a fire extinguisher. Transmission 3 is our climax where good and evil co-mingle. The viewer is not longer able to distinguish the reality from the hallucination.

Despite the seemingly disjointed stories, I trust my readers are smart. The second act contains wildly different undertones and although each transmission has a certain feel, there is on unifying theme… Gore is king!

The Signal doesn’t disappoint with juicy, bloody, gruesomeness. The freaky splatter is insane. But this low budget gem is smart, terse, and perfectly disturbing; its modern unpredictable horror worth watching.