As welcomed and embraced as futurism in cinema is, as moviegoers we too openly accept and have a soft spot for rewinding to retroism and the eras of yesteryear.
Not every single film released out of Hollywood or by independent filmmakers has to be pioneering or the next this or that. Sometimes utilising modern technology and storytelling to recall back to older pastiches can be equally as inventive and equally as entertaining.
In Jacob Gentry‘s 2021 film Broadcast Signal Intrusion, he does just that.
Starring Harry Shum Jr., the horror-thriller film is set in the tale-end of the 90s where a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the conspiracy behind them.
Similarly to Prano Bailey-Bond’s marvellous horror-thriller Censor, Broadcast Signal Intrusion is an exercise in a investigatory quandary that leads to eventual psychological mania.
James (Shum Jr.) – our protagonist, works as …