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On the funny side - the middle section is a splash of bright red black comedy - it gives us characters who openly acknowledge the preposterous genre cliches and conventions - idiotic decision-making (often involving trips to the basement), stock characters and situations, portentous camera placement - that we've been conditioned to hoot at in cheap horror movies. On the scary side, "The Signal" has a 1970s low-budget look and feel that serves it well: garish, grainy, raw. Both forms share a zest for the outlandish in logic and execution, which is probably why the frightening and the laughable bleed together so readily.
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The result is a movie that explores the common ground between visceral horror and sketch comedy, and finds plenty of it. Written and directed in three segments, or "transmissions," by David Bruckner, Jacob Genry and Dan Bush, respectively, "The Signal" originated as an experiment called "Exquisite Corpse," in which a story is passed along from one filmmaker to another, each taking it in new directions before handing it off to the next.
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And the fourth, well, that's just a bonus tip that could come in handy someday. The third one you should know from every zombie or slasher movie ever made, and besides it's common sense. The second one you should already know from life experience and from movies like "Videodrome" and the Japanese horror film "Ringu" (" The Ring").