"Lost Signal" is a nice little movie taking the basic premises of ordinary slasher movies (that is a disoriented couple chased through the woods, hiding in abandoned cabin and seeing strange persons suddenly appearing in their backseat, before windows etc.). What is different is that the movie is very slow and in reality just the hallucinations the two have after someone slipped them LSD in their drinks on a new years eve party.
Most of the movie plays with the couple stumbling through the icy woods after leaving their car behind when they think someone lurks in their backseat. From here everything is going downward from trying not to freeze to death to seriously tripping out in the end (that is paying its homage to "Shining" pretty obviously). The only piece of sanity is the 9/11 operator that is regularly talking to them on their cellphone and trying to trace their position between losing their signal and trying to decipher their inconsistent stories.
Sure the movie is slow and has its lengths but honestly it kept me interested. Also the acting and cinematography was OK, so I don't get the negative comments on the movie that basically rip off on some continuity errors (And I give you that the scarf thing is a real bad and obvious continuity error) but that doesn't make this a 3star movie.
Spoiler ahead .... for those who say the ending didn't make any sense I wonder why you didn't get it. The guy who slips them LSD clearly wants to get in Tiffanys pants and he uses 3 glasses of which one is marked and he drinks of it. This means he drugged both, so Tiffanys actions are clear and since she hears strange voices on the phone she is obviously high as her boyfriend.
The story is pretty simple... drugs are bad and the montage shows very clear the many sufferings this evening placed on many including nice clean Tiffany who has to live with what she has done now on top of her boyfriend being dead.
Considering this is based on a true story I like it even more and give it a 9 just to raise the bar for this interesting movie yet it sure has some flaws. If I'd had to choose about a horror/thriller with drug themes I'd prefer this one over "Shrooms" for sure.
Most of the movie plays with the couple stumbling through the icy woods after leaving their car behind when they think someone lurks in their backseat. From here everything is going downward from trying not to freeze to death to seriously tripping out in the end (that is paying its homage to "Shining" pretty obviously). The only piece of sanity is the 9/11 operator that is regularly talking to them on their cellphone and trying to trace their position between losing their signal and trying to decipher their inconsistent stories.
Sure the movie is slow and has its lengths but honestly it kept me interested. Also the acting and cinematography was OK, so I don't get the negative comments on the movie that basically rip off on some continuity errors (And I give you that the scarf thing is a real bad and obvious continuity error) but that doesn't make this a 3star movie.
Spoiler ahead .... for those who say the ending didn't make any sense I wonder why you didn't get it. The guy who slips them LSD clearly wants to get in Tiffanys pants and he uses 3 glasses of which one is marked and he drinks of it. This means he drugged both, so Tiffanys actions are clear and since she hears strange voices on the phone she is obviously high as her boyfriend.
The story is pretty simple... drugs are bad and the montage shows very clear the many sufferings this evening placed on many including nice clean Tiffany who has to live with what she has done now on top of her boyfriend being dead.
Considering this is based on a true story I like it even more and give it a 9 just to raise the bar for this interesting movie yet it sure has some flaws. If I'd had to choose about a horror/thriller with drug themes I'd prefer this one over "Shrooms" for sure.