The Signal (2014)

Director
William Eubank

Main cast
Brenton Thwaites; Laurence Fishburne; Olivia Cooke; Lin Shaye; Beau Knapp

Genres
Thriller, Sci-Fi

Description
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.


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