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The Signal

  • 2014
  • PG-13
  • 1h 37m
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The Signal (2014)
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On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness - only to find himself in a waking night... Read allOn a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness - only to find himself in a waking nightmare.On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness - only to find himself in a waking nightmare.

  • Director
    • William Eubank
  • Writers
    • Carlyle Eubank
    • William Eubank
    • David Frigerio
  • Stars
    • Brenton Thwaites
    • Olivia Cooke
    • Beau Knapp
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.0/10
    67K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,207
    376
    • Director
      • William Eubank
    • Writers
      • Carlyle Eubank
      • William Eubank
      • David Frigerio
    • Stars
      • Brenton Thwaites
      • Olivia Cooke
      • Beau Knapp
    • 317User reviews
    • 171Critic reviews
    • 54Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 3 nominations

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    Laurence Fishburne in The Signal (2014)
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    Brenton Thwaites
    Brenton Thwaites
    • Nic
    Olivia Cooke
    Olivia Cooke
    • Haley
    Beau Knapp
    Beau Knapp
    • Jonah
    Laurence Fishburne
    Laurence Fishburne
    • Damon
    Patrick Davidson
    • Boy Playing Claw Game
    Jeffrey Grover
    Jeffrey Grover
    • Gas Station Clerk
    Roy Kenny
    • Hazmat 1
    Timothy Holmes
    • Hazmat 2
    Ricardo Campos
    • Hazmat 3
    Drew Sykes
    • Hazmat 4
    Lin Shaye
    Lin Shaye
    • Mirabelle
    Robert Longstreet
    Robert Longstreet
    • James
    • Director
      • William Eubank
    • Writers
      • Carlyle Eubank
      • William Eubank
      • David Frigerio
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The time period - firmly set in the 2014 era, with internet hacking and smartphones - was intertwined with props from a previous era - with cassette recorders and landline telephones. This was done on purpose, as director Eubanks felt the addition of "old tech" works as a possible misdirect.
    • Goofs
      When Nic is pulling Haley with his wheelchair in the corridors, as he turns the corner, her bed gets stuck. You can see the foot of a crew person who must've been pushing the bed and making sure it got stuck.
    • Quotes

      Nic: The truth of the matter? What is the truth of the matter here? The only thing I know for certain is that you don't know what you're dealing with. You will be pulled from this shitty little shack you call a research facility so fast that the only thing relevant to be shown for any of this is the way it's all exposed, wrecked, and forgotten. You have *no* idea! You have no clue! Do you? Have any clue how fast dumb, lost little kids like me, Jonah, or Nomad could ruin a place like this? Have it come grinding to a halt like the stone wheel it is? You're clueless law in the Wild West, Damon. You're a relic protecting ruins. You're pathetic! The truth of the matter is that I'm the only one that has any sense around here.

    • Soundtracks
      La villa dei delitti
      Performed by Gabriele Bazzi Berneri

      Written by Gabriele Bazzi Berneri

      Courtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

    User reviews317

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    6/10
    apart from the ending, an interesting failure at best
    Here is another low budget movie that seems ultimately to have been made to ornament one or two fairly lavish setpieces. see for example skinwalker ranch and the banshee chapter which without one or two meretricious moments would not amount to much at all. and of course it is always hard to criticise low budget pictures which are also genre pictures. so in fairness we have a very skillfully shot film, nicely edited ( owing i felt a large debt to 'Primer' stylistically). and there is laurence fishburne who is good but he is only now and forever more morphius in the matrix for all eternity, more or less. unfortunately, the script is a mere cypher, merely to take you from the promising beginning, through the lacklustre and plot less main hour or so until you arrive at the climax where the largest part of the budget is spent. goodnight and thankyou. but think about this for one moment after and you will find a film which collapses under scrutiny. which is not the worst thing, after all some of the most entertaining movies i have see are ridiculous when analysed.. but apart from the million dollar effects shot this is a film that struggles to tell any kind of cogent narrative at all. it is similar in tone to chronicle, a superior film in it's depiction of humans becoming 'more than human'.. and it has very strong echoes to donnie darko. so kudos for the effort. next time try and develop character and plot a little more and you will come up with something quite good i am sure. as it is a sunny day i gives it 6 : )
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 10, 2014 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Tín Hiệu Kích Động
    • Filming locations
      • New Mexico, USA
    • Production companies
      • Automatik Entertainment
      • Low Spark Films
      • Signal Film Group
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $4,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $600,896
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $155,642
      • Jun 15, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,595,622
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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