![]() Anyone who's familiar with the Max Headroom signal hijacking incidents will immediately see the inspiration for the signal intrusions in this movie. I lived for a long time in northwestern Indiana, close enough to the Illinois border that we got Chicago programming over the airwaves. One of the reasons this movie tickled my fancy is because I grew up at a time when signal intrusions like this happened periodically. This is, absolutely, one of those movies. Second, I want you to set aside enough time that as soon as the credits roll, you can go back and watch it again. First, I need you to temper your expectations - I'm going to gush in this write-up, and I want that to influence you as little as possible. I cannot express to you just how much I enjoyed this movie, but if you decide to watch it for yourself, I want you to promise me two things. With his curiosity now replaced by obsession to find out why Hannah disappeared and who may have abducted her, James proceeds down a rabbit hole which has already wrecked the lives of other amateur investigators, risking his own sanity to discover the truth about his wife's ultimate fate. As if that wasn't bad enough, a rumored third intrusion took place the day before Hannah vanished. While hunting for the second tape, James learns a woman was kidnapped the day after each signal intrusion happened. What's more, James learns there was a second similar intrusion a short time later, but the tape of that particular broadcast is missing from the station archives. Someone with access to high-powered equipment managed to override the station's broadcast and replace it with one of their own.Ĭurious, and with little else interesting going on in his life aside from the occasional trip to his local support group for people who have lost loved ones to suicide, James begins investigating the bizarre signal break-in only to discover he's not the first person to look into this incident, and the FBI is maintaining a database on anyone who requests information about the signal break-in. A few seconds later, the news feed returns. The audio pitches and spikes, sounding almost like a scream, while the figure's mouth moves as though it's trying to talk. While attempting to tune out yet another nightly news broadcast from the 1980s, James sees the signal distort momentarily, then the talking heads are replaced by the disturbing image of what appears to be a woman in a white latex mask and wig. Since his wife Hannah's disappearance three years ago, he hasn't had much to live for. It's a lonely job, spending eight hours a night watching old broadcast recordings by yourself, but it suits him just fine. ![]() James (Harry Shum Jr.) works the evening shift in the basement of a Chicago television station as a digital archivist, transferring the station's considerable analog tape archive to DVD.
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