2016 · horror · sci-fi · thriller
Cell
Directed by Tod Williams1h 38m2016
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.
Our read: Cell (2016) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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