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I'm curious if there's anyone else out there that likes the movie The
Signal. I'm talking about this one from 2014:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2910814/

(Apparently there was another movie by the same name in 2007 about
killer cell phones, and also a TV series with the same title in 2024).

The one I'm interested in is a relatively low-budget movie about two
computer students from MIT taking one's girlfriend on a cross-country
road trip because she transferred to CalTech. Along the way a
mysterious hacker named Nomad starts hassling them. They trace his
location to the Nevada desert, drive there and find an abandoned
house...and next thing the main character Nic knows he's in a maximum
security hospital being attended to by hazmat suit-wearing staff
headed up by Laurence Fishburn. He tells Nic that the three were
abducted by aliens and exposed to hazardous biological material, but
very little else. Nic starts to figure out how to escape...and then
the movie gets really weird.

The best part is that the ending actually explains what was going on,
although you have to use your brain a bit (it doesn't spoon-feed you).

I thought it was a fantastic movie. After being disappointed by a lot
of sci-fi films that turn out to be crappy, brain-dead horror movies,
this was one that started out looking like it was going to be a
bog-standard, found footage style horror movie and then it suddenly
takes off into this mind bending sci-fi film.

I looked it up on IMDB and was shocked to see it only has a 6.0
average. Lots of scathing reviews (with a few 9 and 10 stars mixed
in). Even the few critical reviews I could find seemed lackluster at
best. I'm kind of baffled as to why so many people disliked this
movie.

-- Bob
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