'The Signal' Has the Crazy
After years of remakes and halfway horror marketed toward the PG-13 crowd, the genre is on the upswing. With old pros like George A. Romero shopping around Diary of the Dead and Dario Argento waiting in the wings with his Suspiria follow up, The Mother of Tears: The Third Mother, young new horror hot shots are ready to unleash a storm of new terror. Perhaps one of the most anticipated is The Signal, and Bloody-Disgusting.com got its hands on the new trailer.
A cross between 28 Days Later and J-Horror (like Ringu), The Signal has a self-produced feel that made the likes of Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre the classics they still are today. The Signal's plot revolves around a "terminus" transmission broadcast over every cell phone, radio and TV. Once experiencing this transmission, it's kill or be killed. Having already premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, the film is set for an October 26 release -- to go toe to toe with Saw IV.
That kinda sounds like Stephen King's book 'Cell', except scarier. Cool.
This isn't related to the original post, but I couldn't find a better place to post it. (Sorry for that.)
In the early 90's the late-October MonsterFest weekend was hosted by (the legendary) Roger Corman. For the occasion, he made a serial-style film entitled "The Phantom Eye" which was shown in segments throughout the Fest, the in its entirety at the end. Are there any plans to ever show that again, and/or release it on DVD? I enjoyed it immensely then , but haven't seen it since.
One of my co-workers here at work just finsihed shooting a film with the lead from this movie. She has seen it and she says it's very good. I'm really looking forward to it too!