Friday, 20 January 2012

The Signal (David Bruckner, Dan Bush & Jacob Gentry, 2007)

On paper, the premise is a promising one compared to the horror B-movie norm: three directors showing three different perspectives of events. This largely turns out to be false advertising, however: no Rashomon, this. The three perspectives only consist of following a different character in each segment: there's no actual uncertainty as to the reality of the situation, and what we're left with is a fairly bog-standard variation on the survival-zombie epidemic genre, with TV and radio signals turning the populace psychotic. There's an attempt at wringing gallows humour out of the splatter, but it's leaden-footed fare.

4/10

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