The Signal: Critic Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

[A] cagey low-budget horror flick.

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.

With just one compelling sequence emerging from so many filmmakers' efforts, The Signal is decidedly less than the sum of its parts.

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

Thesps get seriously into the roles, rendering the situation that much funnier.

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.

It doesn't take long for the The Signal's promising beginning to fade into a haze that leaves the viewer exhausted and irritated.

...suffers from an increasingly uneven sensibility that ultimately becomes oppressive...

Funny, terrifying and haunting all at once, this tripartite vision of postmodern alienation, societal breakdown and mental disintegration is as arresting as a baseball bat to the head - while still cutting to the heart.

Esforcando-se ao maximo para alcancar o equilibrio entre gore e parodia que transformou Uma Noite Alucinante em cult, esta bomba torna-se risivel apenas pela incompetencia generalizada com que foi realizada.

It's definitely an interesting premise and the three filmmakers almost pull it off, but the last ten minutes were a bit of a disappointment to me.

This is much more than a typical genre piece; it's a sort of hip, almost punk, combination of drama, science-fiction and horror.

The film is both an impressive "calling card" work for the filmmakers and a failure as an actual film.

A bloody banquet of excessive, tasteless gore, but with an odd infusion of unsavory humor that never meshes with the horror. Think fatal car crash with a laugh track.

All I kept writing down in my notes during the movie was "gruesome" "I can't breathe" "My stomach is in knots."

In the end THE SIGNAL will burn it's transmission into your brain and leave you with an impression that will never go away. This is that film that leaves you with that special glow (yes, kind of like after sex), the smile that doesn't fade and the convers

Too fuzzy and indistinct to work on either a literal or a metaphoric level, The Signal nonetheless pulses with enough random static to hold viewers' attention.

For a soup overseen by three cooks, the whole works reasonably well, with some pretty complex interlocking, A must for fans of nonlinear storytelling.