When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England.When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England.When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England.
Jeff Hallman
- Hog Tied Man
- (as Jeffrey Hallman)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaStephen King announced in 2009 that he had written a screenplay for the movie, and had created a new ending, based on reader complaints about the book's ending.
- GoofsOn Tom McCourt's advice, Clay puts a cellphone in the fridge to cool the battery down to make the charge last longer yet he fails to do the obvious and turn it off. Also the theory of 'making a phone battery last longer by freezing it' is dubious at most, but the characters may not know any better.
- Quotes
Tom McCourt: Clay, I'm really sorry about your family.
Clay Riddell: Don't be sorry because there is nothing to be sorry about yet.
- Crazy creditsAfter the closing credits have finished, the catalyst signal from the movie plays for approximately 5-10 seconds, with no image, as if attempting to convert the audience.
- ConnectionsFeatured in FoundFlix: Stephen King's CELL (2016) Ending Explained (2016)
- SoundtracksI am glad, I am very glad, because i'm finally returning back home
aka "Trololo song"
Music by Arkadiy Ostrovskiy
Performed by Eduard Khil
Featured review
Not terrible and this is worth seeing, but I just feel it could have been so much more than another in the line of zombie movies
"Quite a problem these cell phones have caused." Clay Riddell (Cusack) has just landed and is talking to his wife about getting together with his kid again. When his phone dies he begins to look for change when all of a sudden he hears screaming and everyone in the airport falls to the ground. What happens next is unthinkable and now, in a type of post apocalyptic world Clay and a small group of survivors try to make it back to his family, before it's too late. I had no idea what to expect from this movie. I liked the fact that it was a Stephen King book, though I never read it, and the idea of technology leading to some sort of downfall is scary in its possibility. All of the excitement started to slowly fade away when the movie fell into what it really was
another zombie movie. The symbolism of cell phones turning people into zombies wasn't lost on me and the movie did have a message in that sense, but it essentially became just another generic zombie movie. Overall, not terrible and this is worth seeing, but I just feel it could have been so much more than another in the line of zombie movies. I give this a B-.
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- cosmo_tiger
- Aug 30, 2016
Details
Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $1,323,012
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
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