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The Signa [FullVersion]
Directed by David Bruckner
Dan Bush
Jacob Gentry
Produced by Alexander A. Motlagh
Written by David Bruckner
Dan Bush
Jacob Gentry
Starring A. J. Bowen
Anessa Ramsey
Justin Welborn
Release date(s) February 22, 2008
Country United States
Language English
Budget $50,000
Gross revenue $251,150 [1]
Plot
The film opens, showing that Mya (Anessa Ramsey) is cheating on her husband Lewis (A. J. Bowen) with a man named Ben (Justin Welborn). They plan to escape from the city of Terminus (the old name for Atlanta) on a train together that night, which is New Year's Eve. As Mya exits, Ben turns the TV on, showing a bizarre, psychedelic sequence of images. Mya begins to listen to a CD given to her by Ben, but is menaced by men who are acting strangely in a parking garage. When she reaches her apartment building, she finds people acting strangely in the halls as well. Unknown to Mya, the signal that is coming through the TV, radio and telephone amplifies each person's negative emotional traits, causing them to act irrationally and (in most cases) violently.
Once inside her apartment, Lewis and two friends, Jerry and Rod (Sahr Ngaujah) attempt to fix the TV, but Lewis, the first to react to the signal, beats Jerry to death with a baseball bat over a minor argument. Mya escapes in panic, leaving Rod and Lewis in a struggle. After escaping, she finds the hall in chaos with people killing each other. Mya hides out in the apartment across the hall until morning. When she decides to leave and re-enter her home, she finds an unconscious Lewis, bound to a chair with duct-tape. He awakens only to see her leave him behind and exit into the hall listening to Ben's CD, but encounters Rod who drags her into a janitor's closet. He then tells her of the night he spent trying to survive in the apartment complex. It becomes evident that the signal affects each person differently, and that there is the possibility that Rod is also crazy, though he seems to largely have control of his own judgement. Together, they escape, and attempt to drive to safety, but after being wounded by a crazed policewoman and almost left behind by Mya, Rod turns on the radio in anger, exposing himself to the signal, and goes violently insane. He attacks Mya, who crashes the car. Rod is incapacitated and trapped in the vehicle, and Mya flees, telling a passerby named Clark (Scott Poythress) that she is going to the train station to leave Terminus. Clark is left to help Rod out of the vehicle.
The story turns to Ben, who finds the duct-taped Lewis and loosens his bonds. Lewis renders Ben unconscious and puts his body in the back of a pest control van. At a nearby apartment, Anna (Cheri Christian) is setting up for a New Years party. The signal has affected her so that her dutifulness as a homemaker is amplified, and despite having killed her crazed husband in self-defence, she has continued planning for the party as if nothing has happened. Clark, who is her neighbour, soon arrives. The two begin attempting to figure out what is happening, and after Anna admits that she killed her husband, Clark also admits that he had decapitated Rod, who had attacked him after being freed from the car wreck (which is outside the apartment block).
Eventually Lewis makes his way to the apartment, wrongly under the belief that Mya has been there simply because her car is crashed outside. At first, Lewis befriends Anna and Clark, and they convince themselves that none of them have been affected by the signal, and that they have to band together to survive. Lewis, whose violent and paranoid tendencies are clearly amplified by the signal, immediately kills one of Anna's friends who arrives at the door seeking help. He dismisses the act as self-defense, but Clark convinces him not to attack the next arrival, Jim (Chad McKnight) who is apparently oblivious of the signal or its effects on the population. Jim is simply expecting to enjoy Anna's New Years party, and does not realise the gravity of the situation. While Anna hallucinates that Clark is her husband, Lewis hallucinates that Jim is Ben, taunting him. He beats Jim to death, then drops any pretence of peace and attacks Anna, spraying her with insecticide until she is blind. Once he realizes she knows nothing about Mya's whereabouts, he forces her to ingest the poison, killing her. He then exposes Clark to the signal in order to convince him to tell him where Mya had gone. Ben, having woken up and freed himself from Lewis's van, enters the apartment and attacks Lewis with the pesticide canister.
Ben and Clark manage to escape, but Lewis follows them. After Ben convinces Clark that the signal is a lie, thus breaking the signal's effect on him, Clark informs Ben where Mya was headed. Ben and Clark get to the train station, to find Mya tied to a chair, being forced to watch the signal. Lewis, who arrived ahead of them, appears and strangles Clark until he is unconscious. Ben then uses Lewis's paranoia against him, eventually tricking Lewis into believing that their roles are reversed, and that Lewis is the one man he hates most: Mya's "other man". Lewis punches a signal-broadcasting TV in a frustrated rage, electrocuting himself.
The story ends ambiguously. A series of scenes showing Ben and Mya escaping with Clark, stocking up on supplies, then Ben and Mya going separate ways from Clark, suggesting they've succeeded. However we then see Mya still tied to the chair, seemingly lost due the prolonged exposure to the signal. Ben places Mya's headphones on her and she closes her eyes, a tear rolling down her cheek, before the credits appear. Whether this is the final reality, or a flashback before Ben and Mya's escape, is left for the viewer to decide
