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In the fictional city of Terminus, lovers Ben and Mya are awakened when a barrage of seemingly random sounds and colors begin emitting from Ben's television. The couple quickly discovers that telephones are similarly affected. Ben dismisses the disturbances and tries to persuade Mya to finally leave her husband Lewis.
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In the fictional city of Terminus, lovers Ben (Creator/JustinWelborn) and Mya (Creator/AnessaRamsey) are awakened when a barrage of seemingly random sounds and colors begin emitting from Ben's television. The couple quickly discovers that telephones are similarly affected. Ben dismisses the disturbances and tries to persuade Mya to finally leave her husband Lewis.
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In the fictional city of Terminus, lovers Ben and Mya are awakened when a barrage of seemingly random sounds and colors begin emitting from Ben's television. The couple quickly discovers that telephones are similarly affected. Ben dismisses the disturbances and tries to persuade Mya to finally leave her husband Lewis. After making tentative plans to leave Terminus with Ben the next day, Mya returns to her apartment building, but something is terribly wrong. Her neighbors are acting strangely and seem to be growing increasingly agitated and violent. Her husband Lewis most of all...
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In the fictional city of Terminus, lovers Ben and Mya are awakened when a barrage of seemingly random sounds and colors begin emitting from Ben's television. The couple quickly discovers that telephones are similarly affected. Ben dismisses the disturbances and tries to persuade Mya to finally leave her husband Lewis. Lewis.
After making tentative plans to leave Terminus with Ben the next day, Mya returns to her apartment building, but something is terribly wrong. Her neighbors are acting strangely and seem to be growing increasingly agitated and violent. Her husband Lewis most of all...
After making tentative plans to leave Terminus with Ben the next day, Mya returns to her apartment building, but something is terribly wrong. Her neighbors are acting strangely and seem to be growing increasingly agitated and violent. Her husband Lewis most of all...
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jim Parsons maintains a supernatural level of obliviousness to the situation around him. This adds some great comedy to the film's second act, but unfortunately leads to AloneWithThePsycho. Given how obsessed with sex he is (he has almost no lines not revolving around women) he may have been affected by the signal as well and become obsessed to the point of not noticing the chaos around him.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
** Jim Parsons maintains a supernatural level of obliviousness to the situation around him. This adds some great comedy to the film's second act, but unfortunately leads to AloneWithThePsycho. Given how obsessed with sex he is (he has almost no lines not revolving around women) he may have been affected by the signal as well and become obsessed to the point of not noticing the chaos around him.
** Jim Parsons maintains a supernatural level of obliviousness to the situation around him. This adds some great comedy to the film's second act, but unfortunately leads to AloneWithThePsycho. Given how obsessed with sex he is (he has almost no lines not revolving around women) he may have been affected by the signal as well and become obsessed to the point of not noticing the chaos around him.
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''The Signal'' is a 2007 American horror film. In the fictional city of Terminus, lovers Ben and Mya are awakened when a barrage of seemingly random sounds and colors begin emitting from Ben's television. The couple quickly discovers that telephones are similarly affected. Ben dismisses the disturbances and tries to persuade Mya to finally leave her husband Lewis. After making tentative plans to leave Terminus with Ben the next day, Mya returns to her apartment building, but something is terribly wrong. Her neighbors are acting strangely and seem to be growing increasingly agitated and violent. Her husband Lewis most of all...
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''The Signal'' is a 2007 American horror film. It is told in three acts, each written and directed by a different individual but following the same story.
In the fictional city of Terminus, lovers Ben and Mya are awakened when a barrage of seemingly random sounds and colors begin emitting from Ben's television. The couple quickly discovers that telephones are similarly affected. Ben dismisses the disturbances and tries to persuade Mya to finally leave her husband Lewis. After making tentative plans to leave Terminus with Ben the next day, Mya returns to her apartment building, but something is terribly wrong. Her neighbors are acting strangely and seem to be growing increasingly agitated and violent. Her husband Lewis most of all...
In the fictional city of Terminus, lovers Ben and Mya are awakened when a barrage of seemingly random sounds and colors begin emitting from Ben's television. The couple quickly discovers that telephones are similarly affected. Ben dismisses the disturbances and tries to persuade Mya to finally leave her husband Lewis. After making tentative plans to leave Terminus with Ben the next day, Mya returns to her apartment building, but something is terribly wrong. Her neighbors are acting strangely and seem to be growing increasingly agitated and violent. Her husband Lewis most of all...
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* EyeScream: FakeOutOpening: The first scene is a campy homage to low-budget splatter movies that does not relate to the characters in the rest of the film.
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** [[spoiler: Lewis]] slowly blinding [[spoiler: Anna]] with the insecticide.
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** [[spoiler: Lewis]] slowly blinding [[spoiler: Anna]] with the insecticide.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Rod constructs a highly effective morning star using a metal stand, some steak knives, and duct tape.
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** One of Mya and Lewis's neighbors is dispatched by another neighbor who cuts her throat with a pair of gardening shears.
* MadeOfIron: One of the side effects of the Signal is apparently being resistant to pain and injury. People in the grips of madness survive grievous injuries.
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* ShoutOut: When Rod drags Mya into the storage closet a sticker can be seen on the door that resembles the logo of [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Umbrella Corporation.]]
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** When Rod drags Mya into the storage closet a sticker can be seen on the door that resembles the logo of [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Umbrella Corporation.]]]]
** In the background of one shot, a dark-haired man in a blue shirt and dark slacks is chasing some people with a red chainsaw, making him look suspiciously like Ash Williams of ''Franchise/TheEvilDead''.
** When Rod drags Mya into the storage closet a sticker can be seen on the door that resembles the logo of [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Umbrella Corporation.
** In the background of one shot, a dark-haired man in a blue shirt and dark slacks is chasing some people with a red chainsaw, making him look suspiciously like Ash Williams of ''Franchise/TheEvilDead''.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Averted with Rod. When Lewis snaps, he murders his caucasian friend first and Rod is the one who subdues and restrains him. Rod then spends the rest of the night battling other crazy tenants and rescuing and securing sane ones.]]
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* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Rodd is horrifically clubbed in the skull with a hammer, shot multiple times and thrown through a windshield before finally being decapitated. Later, his severed head is briefly "re-animated" by a crazed, hallucinating Clark.]]
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* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Rodd Rod is horrifically clubbed in the skull with a hammer, shot multiple times and thrown through a windshield before finally being decapitated. Later, his severed head is briefly "re-animated" by a crazed, hallucinating Clark.]]
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jim Parsons maintains a supernatural level of obliviousness to the situation around him. This adds some great comedy to the film's second act, but unfortunately leads to AloneWithThePsycho. Given how obsessed with sex he is(he has almost no lines not revlolving around women) he may have been affected by the signal as well and become obsexed to the point of not noticing the chaos around him.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jim Parsons maintains a supernatural level of obliviousness to the situation around him. This adds some great comedy to the film's second act, but unfortunately leads to AloneWithThePsycho. Given how obsessed with sex he is(he is (he has almost no lines not revlolving revolving around women) he may have been affected by the signal as well and become obsexed obsessed to the point of not noticing the chaos around him.
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*** Then there's Lewis (and eventually [[spoiler: Ben]],) Ben]]), and that tank of bug spray...
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* {{Leitmotif}}: The music (being a cover of "[[JoyDivision Atmosphere]]") from Mya's CD player is an in-universe example [[spoiler: which Ben ultimately uses to free her from the Signal.]]
* MindScrew: The Signal messes with peoples' perceptions. Several scenes are reshot with a different character to show how the perceptions of the infected are warped. In particular, [[spoiler:Ben and Lewis]] keep swapping places in different shots, leaving it ambiguous as to who did what.
* MindScrew: The Signal messes with peoples' perceptions. Several scenes are reshot with a different character to show how the perceptions of the infected are warped. In particular, [[spoiler:Ben and Lewis]] keep swapping places in different shots, leaving it ambiguous as to who did what.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: The music (being a cover of "[[JoyDivision "[[Music/JoyDivision Atmosphere]]") from Mya's CD player is an in-universe example [[spoiler: which Ben ultimately uses to free her from the Signal.]]
* MindScrew: The Signal messes with peoples' perceptions. Several scenes arereshot re-shot with a different character to show how the perceptions of the infected are warped. In particular, [[spoiler:Ben [[spoiler: Ben and Lewis]] keep swapping places in different shots, leaving it ambiguous as to who did what.
* MindScrew: The Signal messes with peoples' perceptions. Several scenes are
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* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Rodd is horrifically clubbed in the skull with a hammer, shot multiple times and thrown through a windshield before finally being decapitated. Later, his severed head is briefly "reanimated" "re-animated" by a Crazed, crazed, hallucinating Clark.]]
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* TheSmartGuy: Clark, who has a [[MrExposition very solid hypothesis]] on what the Signal is doing to people and how. [[spoiler: Later, after Lewis forces the Signal upon him, he becomes even more speculation-obsessed, without becoming noticeably more violent.]]
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* TheSmartGuy: Clark, who has a [[MrExposition very solid hypothesis]] on what the Signal is doing to people and how. [[spoiler: Later, after Lewis forces the Signal upon him, he becomes even more speculation-obsessed, speculation obsessed, without becoming noticeably more violent.]]
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* {{Leitmotif}}: The music (being a cover of "[[JoyDivision Atmosphere]]") from Mya's CD player is an in-universe example [[spoiler: which Ben ultimately uses to free her from the Signal.]]
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''The Signal'' is a 2007 American horror film. In the fictional city of Terminus, lovers Ben and Mya are awakened when a barrage of seemingly random sounds and colors begin emitting from Ben's television. The couple quickly discovers that telephones are similarly affected. Ben dismisses the disturbances and tries to persuade Mya to finally leave her husband Lewis. After making tentative plans to leave Terminus with Ben the next day, Mya returns to her apartment building, but something is terribly wrong. Her neighbors are acting strangely and seem to be growing increasingly agitated and violent. Her husband Lewis most of all...
Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheSignal2014 2014 thriller of the same name]].
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!!This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* ActingUnnatural: A man has just been killed.
-->'''Anna:''' ''[doorbell rings]'' Party guests!\\
'''Clark:''' ''[holding bloody shovel]'' Act natural.\\
'''Anna and Lewis:''' ''[line up behind Clark at the door with weapons ready]''
* AnachronicOrder: The story takes small leaps backward and forward in several spots.
* AntiVillain: Despite brutally murdering several people, all Lewis wants to do is find and protect his wife even though she is cheating on him.
* BatterUp: Lewis's weapon for the first half of the film before switching to a tank of bug spray.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Averted with Rod. When Lewis snaps, he murders his caucasian friend first and Rod is the one who subdues and restrains him. Rod then spends the rest of the night battling other crazy tenants and rescuing and securing sane ones.]]
* BrownNote: Although not everyone who is affected becomes violent, no one can encounter the Signal without having their perception of reality altered.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jim Parsons maintains a supernatural level of obliviousness to the situation around him. This adds some great comedy to the film's second act, but unfortunately leads to AloneWithThePsycho. Given how obsessed with sex he is(he has almost no lines not revlolving around women) he may have been affected by the signal as well and become obsexed to the point of not noticing the chaos around him.
** The brief glimpse of Ken and Anna's relationship prior to the Signal indicates that they were hardly normal to begin with.
* TheDeterminator: Ben, Mya, and Lewis all follow this trope in their own distinctive way in their respective quests to find one another.
* DuctTapeForEverything: Rod is quite resourceful with it in an emergency.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Lewis]] slowly blinding [[spoiler: Anna]] with the insecticide.
** Later, [[spoiler: Lewis]] attempts to gouge out [[spoiler: Ben's]] eyes. [[spoiler: He is unsuccessful.]]
* HatePlague
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Rod constructs a highly effective morning star using a metal stand, some steak knives, and duct tape.
** Handyman Clark is capable of thwarting Crazies with anything from a shovel to an electric screwdriver.
*** Then there's Lewis (and eventually [[spoiler: Ben]],) and that tank of bug spray...
**** One of Mya and Lewis's neighbors is dispatched by another neighbor who cuts her throat with a pair of gardening shears.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: After entering VillainousBSOD Lewis electrocutes himself by punching his fist through a monitor displaying the Signal.]]
* LeftForDead: It is not clear whether [[spoiler: Jim and Anna]] are still alive at the end of their encounter with [[spoiler: Lewis,]] though the odds are not good based on what we see.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The music from Mya's CD player is an in-universe example [[spoiler: which Ben ultimately uses to free her from the Signal.]]
* MindScrew: The Signal messes with peoples' perceptions. Several scenes are reshot with a different character to show how the perceptions of the infected are warped. In particular, [[spoiler:Ben and Lewis]] keep swapping places in different shots, leaving it ambiguous as to who did what.
* PsychoticLoveTriangle: Enforced due to [[spoiler: all three members]] coming under the influence of the Signal at one point or another.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Rodd is horrifically clubbed in the skull with a hammer, shot multiple times and thrown through a windshield before finally being decapitated. Later, his severed head is briefly "reanimated" by a Crazed, hallucinating Clark.]]
* ShoutOut: When Rod drags Mya into the storage closet a sticker can be seen on the door that resembles the logo of [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Umbrella Corporation.]]
* TheSmartGuy: Clark, who has a [[MrExposition very solid hypothesis]] on what the Signal is doing to people and how. [[spoiler: Later, after Lewis forces the Signal upon him, he becomes even more speculation-obsessed, without becoming noticeably more violent.]]
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''The Signal'' is a 2007 American horror film. In the fictional city of Terminus, lovers Ben and Mya are awakened when a barrage of seemingly random sounds and colors begin emitting from Ben's television. The couple quickly discovers that telephones are similarly affected. Ben dismisses the disturbances and tries to persuade Mya to finally leave her husband Lewis. After making tentative plans to leave Terminus with Ben the next day, Mya returns to her apartment building, but something is terribly wrong. Her neighbors are acting strangely and seem to be growing increasingly agitated and violent. Her husband Lewis most of all...
Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheSignal2014 2014 thriller of the same name]].
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!!This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* ActingUnnatural: A man has just been killed.
-->'''Anna:''' ''[doorbell rings]'' Party guests!\\
'''Clark:''' ''[holding bloody shovel]'' Act natural.\\
'''Anna and Lewis:''' ''[line up behind Clark at the door with weapons ready]''
* AnachronicOrder: The story takes small leaps backward and forward in several spots.
* AntiVillain: Despite brutally murdering several people, all Lewis wants to do is find and protect his wife even though she is cheating on him.
* BatterUp: Lewis's weapon for the first half of the film before switching to a tank of bug spray.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Averted with Rod. When Lewis snaps, he murders his caucasian friend first and Rod is the one who subdues and restrains him. Rod then spends the rest of the night battling other crazy tenants and rescuing and securing sane ones.]]
* BrownNote: Although not everyone who is affected becomes violent, no one can encounter the Signal without having their perception of reality altered.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jim Parsons maintains a supernatural level of obliviousness to the situation around him. This adds some great comedy to the film's second act, but unfortunately leads to AloneWithThePsycho. Given how obsessed with sex he is(he has almost no lines not revlolving around women) he may have been affected by the signal as well and become obsexed to the point of not noticing the chaos around him.
** The brief glimpse of Ken and Anna's relationship prior to the Signal indicates that they were hardly normal to begin with.
* TheDeterminator: Ben, Mya, and Lewis all follow this trope in their own distinctive way in their respective quests to find one another.
* DuctTapeForEverything: Rod is quite resourceful with it in an emergency.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Lewis]] slowly blinding [[spoiler: Anna]] with the insecticide.
** Later, [[spoiler: Lewis]] attempts to gouge out [[spoiler: Ben's]] eyes. [[spoiler: He is unsuccessful.]]
* HatePlague
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Rod constructs a highly effective morning star using a metal stand, some steak knives, and duct tape.
** Handyman Clark is capable of thwarting Crazies with anything from a shovel to an electric screwdriver.
*** Then there's Lewis (and eventually [[spoiler: Ben]],) and that tank of bug spray...
**** One of Mya and Lewis's neighbors is dispatched by another neighbor who cuts her throat with a pair of gardening shears.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: After entering VillainousBSOD Lewis electrocutes himself by punching his fist through a monitor displaying the Signal.]]
* LeftForDead: It is not clear whether [[spoiler: Jim and Anna]] are still alive at the end of their encounter with [[spoiler: Lewis,]] though the odds are not good based on what we see.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The music from Mya's CD player is an in-universe example [[spoiler: which Ben ultimately uses to free her from the Signal.]]
* MindScrew: The Signal messes with peoples' perceptions. Several scenes are reshot with a different character to show how the perceptions of the infected are warped. In particular, [[spoiler:Ben and Lewis]] keep swapping places in different shots, leaving it ambiguous as to who did what.
* PsychoticLoveTriangle: Enforced due to [[spoiler: all three members]] coming under the influence of the Signal at one point or another.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Rodd is horrifically clubbed in the skull with a hammer, shot multiple times and thrown through a windshield before finally being decapitated. Later, his severed head is briefly "reanimated" by a Crazed, hallucinating Clark.]]
* ShoutOut: When Rod drags Mya into the storage closet a sticker can be seen on the door that resembles the logo of [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Umbrella Corporation.]]
* TheSmartGuy: Clark, who has a [[MrExposition very solid hypothesis]] on what the Signal is doing to people and how. [[spoiler: Later, after Lewis forces the Signal upon him, he becomes even more speculation-obsessed, without becoming noticeably more violent.]]
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