The Signal (2014 film)

The Signal is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by William Eubank and cowritten with Carlyle Eubank and David Frigerio. The film stars Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on June 13, 2014. The film is among an increasing number of lowbudget, independent science fiction films to be included at the Sundance Film Festival in recent years.

Nic, now with the number 2.3.5.41 tattooed on his arm, wakes up in a strange and sterile underground research facility where he is questioned by Dr. Wallace Damon, the head of the transition group in charge of helping Nic to cope with his strange situation. Damon tells Nic what they encountered near the house was an EBE an extraterrestrial biological entity. Nic remains in a state of disbelief. Dr. Damon then shows him footage from Nics own video camera and pauses where an EBE can be seen hiding behind a tree, looking at him. Nic is taken to his room where he hears Jonah talking to him through a small vent in the wall, saying his body feels weird. Nic also notices that his legs, previously weak but functional, are now completely numb. When Dr. Damon questions him again, Nic tries to get answers about Haleys condition she is in a coma at the time, but is unsuccessful. Following an unexplained experiment on a cow in another part of the facility, a security alarm goes off and Nic, along with other personnel, finds large scorch marks running across the walls and no sign of Jonah. Nic asks Damon where Jonah went but Damon tells him that Jonah was never recovered from the house. Increasingly agitated, Nic tries to break Haley out but is intercepted. After being restrained, hes shocked to discover that his legs have been amputated and replaced by prostheses made from alien technology. Nic then uses these superpowered limbs to break Haley and himself out of the facility, only to discover theyre in the middle of a vast barren desert.After hitching a ride with an old lady who seems sweet yet oddly troubled, Nic and Haley hijack an 18wheeler truck to try to find a way around the seemingly endless canyon that extends around the facility and surrounding area. At a visitors center, they come across Jonah disguised as one of the facility workers dressed in a white HAZMAT suit. Jonah reveals that he too had limbs taken from him, as his forearms and hands have been replaced with th

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