Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Great Film overall

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Absolutely the worst movie.

The Signal is a psychological-horror-apocalypse movie, with elements of black comedy. No it does not have zombies. After watching the trailer, I thought the plot might be something about the hero trying to save his girl, in the midst of chaos, but the movie is much more, much different than that. I'd even go as far to say that at some points the movie felt like a Tarantino flick.Don't watch this movie if you don't expect it to make you think of a deeper meaning than just the blood and gore. The film throws you a curve ball when you realize that the movie would still make complete sense, if the "transmission video" thing was completely absent from the plot. *************The following text may contain spoilers.******************It tells you the way humans kill each other, the way they imagine things, the mistrust humans feel and the way their emotions and behavior change, at times to such an extent that they actually come to hate themselves for what they've become. Sometimes the only way to survive in this world is cover your ears, tune out the noise and just try to be yourself. That's how I interpreted the movie.

now this was an interesting premise for a movie,, you turn on you're TV, cell any modern device and through the frequency out comes this sound unimaginable that goes into you're head driving you to commit murder and all things full of mayhem and unrest. the movie is done by 3 different directors,, each dividing time up in thirds,, never seen that one done before like that. sure there's not a lot explained in the movie and yes you have to think and use you're imagination to some degree. there's lot's of action, mystery and thrills in this movie, some sci-fi elements as well. although not a classic by any stretch of the imagination.. this is not a total stinker either.. this is just one of those movies that it's kinda hard to understand at first , and will leave you with a few questions at the end,, the whole point of the movie is the journey that you take getting there, so far me it was slightly above average.

"The Signal" is quite inventive. The basic premise involves a signal that causes those that heard or saw it becoming quite irrational.They usually resort to killing people although their motivations seem related to whatever they were focused on before being exposed - for example thinking his someone almost whacked his wife and that she might have been cheating on him sees particular women as his wife and sees those near those women as potential attackers and/or assailants.Usually those exposed end up killing. Those kills are sometimes shown outside of chronological order due to flashbacks.There was sometimes black comedy, particularly in the second part (this movie is split into three parts), but unfortunately, it's very long, and by the third part I was finding myself losing interest.

It's so refreshing to watch a horror film that isn't full of clichés. I don't know anything about the directors or the actors (most of them don't have profile backgrounds on IMDb) but I'm guessing the undeserved but current 6.1 rating of this film is due in part to people's expectations of the usual slasher movie with pretty girls. If you want that, don't watch this. Yes it has pretty girls, and yes there's quite a bit of slashing too, but this is incomparable to the Hollywood blockbuster clichés.Performances by all cast was solid and believable. The sense of urgency and desperation comes across really well and I was hooked from the word go. When I get a sick feeling in my stomach from the apocalyptic nightmare of a film then I know it has done its job. The Signal achieves this without effort.I also like that this was in three parts, each directed by someone different. This does not detract from the flow of the film though, it stitches together really well so credit has to go to David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry.