The schlock-horror signal in which they've been bathed makes them believe that their grindhouse misogyny is the human condition.

| Oct 17, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

[A] cagey low-budget horror flick.

| Dec 17, 2008

It's all screwball fun until someone gets bugsprayed down the throat.

| Original Score: C | Feb 29, 2008

An outright horror film that nonetheless veers on occasion into surreal black comedy, The Signal takes Marshall McLuhan's famous statement 'the medium is the message' to extremes not explored since David Cronenberg's Videodrome in 1983.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 22, 2008

None of the rabbit holes in The Signal go that deep. But you do leave persuaded that you've discovered some talented people.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 22, 2008

A movie that explores the common ground between visceral horror and sketch comedy, and finds plenty of it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2008

The Signal is electrifying, deliciously mad and twisted filmmaking. It's certainly not for everyone, but chances are it will inspire many.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 22, 2008

This three-part horror movie directed by a trio of Atlanta filmmakers is set during the collapse of Terminus, a fictional city whose citizens are being driven to rage.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 22, 2008

A slasher fest that references such predecessors as George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead and Pulse, a 2001 chiller by Japan's talented Kiyoshi Kurosawa, while still remaining original.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2008

You will definitely appreciate this film's ambition, if not its execution.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 22, 2008

A startlingly original, smart indie film that so effortlessly mixes high-caliber gore, suspense and shocking violence with vaudevillian hilarity, it's clearly animated by the spirit of the classic Re-Animator films.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2008

It is the wildly chaotic and loony middle section where The Signal truly achieves a level of out-of-control B-movie brilliance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2008

For many fans of the genre, the success of the first act and the ambition of the entire concept will be more than enough to make them fans of The Signal.

| Feb 22, 2008

The Signal is a well-oiled example of that oxymoronic Tarantino phenomenon: the arty grindhouse picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 21, 2008

In a movie about perception, misperception and the ramifications of misunderstanding, it's a bit ironic that the directors can't get out of one another's way.

| Feb 21, 2008

This Look Ma, no hands! And no head either! horror film makes a Mixmaster stew out of Poltergeist, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Re-Animator, They Came From Within, and Shaun of the Dead.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 20, 2008

This uneven but impressive shot-on-digital shocker earns a marker in the mausoleum of apocalyptic horror -- a genre that's proving (un)surprisingly durable in the new century.

Full Review | Feb 20, 2008

The Signal has a cosmic sense of justice that's often hilarious; a sense of irony about the suggestion that we really could amuse ourselves to death.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2008

This low-budget horror film charts the fallout from a mysterious media transmission that cognitively rewires people into killers, and eventually turns out to be an imbalanced project that delivers increasingly diminishing returns.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2007