Movie Trailer


Redband Trailer for THE SIGNAL

By: Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor
Date: Wednesday, January 09, 2008

It has been close to a year since this horror film premiered at the Sundance Festival but Magnolia Pictures is finally distributing it in theaters next month. IGN got their hands on the latest redband trailer, which I'll place below for you. The Signal stars Anessa Ramsey, Sahr Nguajah, AJ Bowen, Matt Stanton, Suehyla El-Attar, Justin Welborn, Cheri Christian, Scott Poythress, Christopher Thomas, Lindsey Garrett and Chad McKnight. The horror was directed by David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, Dan Bush, who also penned the screenplay. Magnolia has only pegged this film for a limited release on Feb 22, 2008 but it may expand to wide.

Plot Summary: It's New Year's Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year's resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic transmission that preys on fear and desire driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy, the rebellious Ben must save the woman he loves from the bedlam in the streets as well as her crazed sadistic husband. But the only way he can tell who to trust or who has given in to violence is by uncovering the true nature of The Signal.

Told in three parts from three unique perspectives by three visionary directors, "The Signal" was originally conceived as an experimental film project called "Exquisite Corpse" where one filmmaker would begin a story then hand it off to another filmmaker to continue and then to another and so on until the movie was complete. The story eventually took shape and evolved into a sci-fi/horror/thriller that imagines a world where everyday anxieties become the catalyst for inhuman terror. "The Signal" is a horrific journey towards discovering that the most brutal monster might actually be within all of us.

 

Here's the new redband trailer.

 


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Comments/Responses
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MrJawbreakingEquilibrium • Jan 09, 2008, 02:18am •
Man, I had the same idea but instead for a movie for a book, since I am an aspiring writer, where someone would write a chapter or a few and give it to someone else and then get the story back and then continue on till the story was done. It was just between two people though.

I also had an idea where I'd take an outline of a story and write different stories based off it but each story I'd be influenced by a different stimulant; alcohol, marijuanna, something hallucineginic, and sober. But I can't find anything hallucineginic anymore, marijuanna makes me want to write songs instead, and when I'm sober I have no motivation. And being drunk...psst, you know how that goes.

daforce • Jan 09, 2008, 02:25am •
Um, actually this is the EXACT plot for Stephen King's book, Cell. Only, instead of trying to 'save the woman he loves', the hero in the book is trying to save his son.

ponyboy76 • Jan 09, 2008, 03:01am •
Well, I like the idea. Instead of a virus or something like that making people nuts, its a signal and from the trailer it sounds as if it might not even be the signal causing it. Its like someone just flipped the morality switch off in people. What I`d like to know is if you are already a psycho, how does the signal effect you.

squidward247 • Jan 09, 2008, 05:36am •
I did something like this years ago, however it was at a church camp in Traverse City, MI. There were, oh, maybe 10 different groups. Each group was given the same beginning and ending, but HOW they got from beginning to end was totally different. There were some funny things and some scary things (well scary for a chruch group).

I like the sound of this. I seem to have a memory of another movie, TV show that was along the same lines. Maybe it was a documentary. Either way it sounds interesting.

sasquatchb • Jan 09, 2008, 06:09am •
"The horror was directed by David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, Dan Bush, who also penned the screenplay."
To clarify, each director wrote their own segment, or "transmission".

It's good fun.

zack2366 • Jan 09, 2008, 06:37am •
i posted this video yesterday - kind of reminds me of night of the comet

madmanic999 • Jan 09, 2008, 07:01am •
daforce is right, this is very silular to king's Cell (which is a great read by the way, and a bit of a departure from the normal King spooktaculars, very raw) except in cell the transmission is sent solely through cell phones. This does look cool however.

Sanity • Jan 09, 2008, 08:34am •
Yeah, so now when Cell is released on the big screen - which is already in the works - people will think that it's ripping off The Signal, and not be as interested in seeing it. That totally sucks! Cell was a good book that could make an even better movie.

I will say that The Signal doesn't look quite as end-of-the-world, 28-days-later that Cell will. Eh, I guess we'll see.

sasquatchb • Jan 09, 2008, 07:43pm •
This movie was being shot when Cell was released in bookstores.
Check out the website www.doyouhavethecrazy.com for more.

SONYMANswallows • Jan 09, 2008, 11:51pm •
Sounds like a cool movie but are you sure that isnt a pic of the chick from the anti meth ads that were filmed on the SAW set?

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