Sundance. The Signal.

"The Signal is the big discovery of the Sundance Film Festival," declares Quint at AICN. "Directors David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry have made their Bad Taste. The Signal is rough and low budget, but so fucking entertaining and well made that tonight's audience was electric."

"This one sold in the lobby of the Egyptian Theater around 2 am," announces Variety. Magnolia's paid $2.3 million for US, UK and Australian rights.

Updated through 1/26.

"I can't make heard nor tails of the film's official site," Brendon Connelly. "Can you make it do anything other than screech awfully, flash a bit and implant subliminal orders to become a murdering psychopath into your brain?"

Bloody Disgusting has talked with all sorts of people involved in making the film.

Update, 1/24: For Filmmaker, James Ponsoldt interviews all three directors, one by one.

Updates, 1/25: Zoom In Online's Annie Frisbie: "Because there's no logic to the story, there's nothing to be afraid of, and the truest feeling it evokes is tedium."

Eric Kohn for the New York Press: "The base fear of Signal stems from the idea that any innocuous digital helper could turn on you mercilessly.... Oh, and did I mention that it's funny?... Signal has a cosmic sense of justice that's often hilarious; a sense of irony about the suggestion that we really could amuse ourselves to death."

Update, 1/26: Scott Weinberg at Cinematical: "It's a character-based (and very well-acted) science fiction horror flick that's got a solid sense of humor, an admirable air of dread and a 50-ton vat of ultra-gooey gore: Cool."

Coverage of the coverage: The Park City Index.

Posted by dwhudson at January 23, 2007 1:49 PM