You answer an unknown call on your cell phone and seconds later you're a raging, homicidal maniac. No, it wasn't your ex-girlfriend or your mother-in-law, it's a strange pulse that has transformed you -- and everyone else with a cell phone -- into a new breed of zombie. As if it needed any more introduction, welcome to the insane mind of Stephen King, the literary luddite whose "Cell" is being adapted for the big screen for director Eli Roth.
Scared of the living dead? Don't be. It's the plain living who should trouble you, Roth insisted. "Everyone on a cell phone gets zapped with this pulse and they all go completely insane. But, what happens is, the generators go out, the power goes out, the water goes bad, so the people that survive suddenly become more dangerous than the phone crazies," Roth said of the frights in his next flick. "Like, the people outside running around killing, they actually become the least of the problems." Read More...
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