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For my second installment of Metroglow reviews I’ve decided to go a little further back in the movie rental arena. Horror movies are pretty hit and miss nowadays, not offering much more than senseless gore or weird Japanese girls that twitch a lot. So why did I choose to review a little known movie that came out in 2007? Because I genuinely believe that The Signal is one of the best horror movies released in the last several years.
The first thing to mention about this movie, is to give it at least five minutes. It begins with some very poorly shot footage, this is not the way the entire movie is. The story is about the character, Mya, who plans on leaving with the man she is having an affair with. Things begin going very wrong as a mysterious signal is sent through telecommunication devices, causing people to go completely out of their minds. The story follows Mya as she tries to get to the train station, and being pursued by her husband who has given in to the signal.
One of the most interesting aspects of this movie is that it is never really revealed what the signal does to people. There are even moments where the audience thinks that a character has gotten over the madness, only to do something even more confusing and bizarre. Which adds a great amount of suspense to this movie.
The movie is split in to three parts, which actually we’re done by three different directors. The three parts of the movie really spice things up, adding comedy (comedy that actually doesn’t cheapen the story too much) and hefty amounts of genius gore scenes that are a must for any horror fan.
This film offers so much to like that the flaws are very easy to look over. This is after all is a movie on the lower end of funding so sometimes the acting can get a little cheesy. However the majority of the performances are fantastic for a horror movie so this really overlooks the small quirks. If you are looking for something a little different in your horror films give The Signal a shot, if offers up a very fresh and very fun view.
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