The Signal Page #4

Synopsis: A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
58%
R
Year:
2007
103 min
Website
296 Views


'cause you don't even realize

what's happening to you.

Heh. You don't even know.

Your wife left you, alone,

tied to a chair,

helpless so the world could

take your life

and the savages could feast

on your bloody remains.

No. She's here.

She's fine.

Sorry.

But that's just not true.

I love you, Ken.

But I know where she is,

and I'm going to find her

and free her of the burden

of being the used up,

adulterous whore

that she is.

I'm going to get to her.

I'm gonna get to her

before you

and there's nothing

you can do about it.

My wife's in there,

and she's upset

because I accidentally

killed her friend.

But she's safe now

and you can't get to her.

I won't let you get to her.

What?

That was kind of odd.

What are you saying?

Where is she?

Who?

My wife.

How the hell do I know?

I just met you.

I didn't know

you were married.

That's kind of...

Kind of cool.

I wish I was married.

What'd you do that for?

Where's my wife?

Where's Mya?

She's fine.

She didn't leave me.

She loves me and only me.

And everything is going

to be safe and quiet.

Don't touch her.

She was just upset,

and I was consoling her.

Please leave us alone,

we don't want you here.

I'm trying to have

an intimate moment

with my husband

before the end of the world.

But I'm your husband.

You're not my husband.

You're a homicidal maniac.

But I killed him

for you.

I didn't want that,

and I didn't ask for it.

And the last person

I want to die with is you.

Ken.

I think he's gonna kill us.

I'm not Ken.

Okay? Look, that's Ken!

Sh*t, o... Okay.

No, I... I'm Ken.

I can be Ken.

You're not Ken.

She's not Mya.

Look, I'll be whoever you guys

want me to be.

If she's not Mya,

that means you did something

to Mya.

No, no, no, no.

She can be Mya.

Right? Right.

Mya, Mya... Ah!

Look at me. Look at me.

So I was admittedly

a little f***ed up earlier.

It's been

a crazy day for me

as I'm sure it has been

for you as well.

But I get it now.

You're not Mya.

You never were Mya.

You're just some other woman

that doesn't matter.

So, what I need you

to tell me...

so that we don't have

to stretch this out

any longer than either

of us wants to...

where is Mya?

Where is my wife?

Answer me or you get

the spray again.

Where is Mya?

I can't see.

She has to be here somewhere.

Her car is outside.

I know she's been here.

I can smell her perfume

all over this place.

We were having a party.

I need to know

where she is.

I have to find her.

I love her.

I have to save her.

I gotta see

so I can have a party.

Look, I know

my wife came in here,

so tell me where you're

hiding her or where she went,

so I can kill you

and get it over with,

and then I'll know

where she is.

Where's Ken?

I want to see Ken.

Ken's enjoying the party.

Ken. I...

I want to see you.

Ken? Ken?

What are you doing to her?

It's time

to go home now.

Ken, I am home, silly.

Oh, my God.

You. You know.

You know

where she went.

You're wrong.

You're wrong, man.

You're seeing things wrong.

The stuff that's in your head

is not real.

You'll see things

the way I'm seeing them.

You just

gotta understand.

Understand the message

coming through.

No, it's making people think

the wrong things.

Everything is not what it seems.

I was misunderstanding it

before, but I get it now.

It's telling me

what I should do.

What I should want.

I want my wife,

and I want my home.

And I want all of you people

to stop bothering us.

So tell me

where she is.

You can't just kill...

What's in your head

to tell you...

It's not what...

It's a... It's a poisonous,

radioactive...

You had to kill

those people, didn't you?

That's right.

They were keeping you

from happiness.

Now you understand.

I wanna be happy.

You will.

You will if you let go

and tell me.

Tell me where she went.

Terminal 13.

She said she was going

to Terminal 13 to get out.

Get out of, uh, Terminus.

See?

See how easy that was?

You're him.

Rod!

F***.

Come on.

Stand up. Come on.

Oh, don't do that.

Get up.

See how easy that was?

Stop.

Please stop.

Please stop, Lewis.

I'm not Lewis.

I really need your help, Okay?

The girl in the car outside.

Did you see her?

Did you see where she went?

Look, everything's going to be fine. Okay?

But I need you to listen to me, okay?

Just listen. If you listen to me,

I can help you make it go away.

Okay?

Who are you? What's your name?

- Na...

- Just tell me your name.

It's... Clark...

- I'm Clark.

- Hi, Clark.

- Um... I'm Ben.

- Ben.

We need to get out of here right now.

All right?

Um...

No, no.

- You just hold on.

- No, no, no!

It's all right. Alright?

It might hurt, just a little bit.

No, no, no, no!

Wait! Wait! Wait!

Clark!

Clark!

Clark. I need your help.

Clark?

Clark?

Clark?

Clark? Open the door!

Right now?

Clark?

Lewis Denton.

Open the door!

Listen to me.

Open the f***ing door!

The car. The one that's wrecked.

The one that's outside...

the girl inside there...

where... where did she go?

- I told you already!

- Not me, that wasn't me.

We've got to find her.

- I don't know. I don't know.

- I need you to do me a favor.

- Maybe he knows.

- Open the door, all right?

He was with her.

Man, he's not going to be able

to talk to us.

I killed him.

Didn't I?

Think back. Okay?

Did he say anything before... he died?

Oh God!

F***!

He's going to help us, all right?

We just gotta get the brains fired.

What?

If we stimulate the pre-motor cortex...

we can...

we can definitely restore

some limited speech patterns.

Right?

Okay. Sure, do it.

- Oh God! Oh God!

- Just relax. Relax.

Just hold on. I got this, okay?

You just finish jump starting your head.

Okay?

Okay.

Clark?

All right then!

F*** you want...?

Can you hear me?

Got a smoke?

I don't smoke.

Ask him about the girl.

Want to know about the girl,

give me a cig...

cigarette.

- He wants a cigarette.

What?

You gotta be f***ing kidding me.

What's he saying?

Where'd she go?

She told you she went to Terminal 13.

B*tch.

Terminal 13.

She said she was going to terminal 13.

Terminal 13.

No!

- She was going to find you.

- Nobody leaves Terminus.

Hey, he also says

that no one can leave Terminus.

Because it's an impossibility, so...

That's what's there.

- Is that right?

- Ya.

Good work.

You're aware you're having a conversation

with a decapitated head. Right?

Listen to me. Listen.

Listen to me.

Do you hear that... listen...

It's past the noise in your head.

That is the natural world...

that has been here a long time before us.

It's going to be here

a long time after we are gone.

That is real.

And that... is what we focus on.

Past the noise.

Ya.

This calls for a radical reassessment

of all the facts.

Clark?

Lewis Denton again...

Look man, ahh... I think I found

that your sledge hammer out here so

I'm going to borrow it for a second,

if that's okay.

I'm going to knock this door

off its f***ing hinges.

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David Bruckner

David Bruckner is an American film director. With Jacob Gentry and Dan Bush, he co-wrote and co-directed The Signal (2007). He also co-wrote and directed "Amateur Night" in the horror anthology V/H/S. more…

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