Broadcast Signal Intrusion

The rest of the picture – a muddle of loose ends and shapeless paranoia – fails to match the malevolent potency of these video nasties in miniature.

The ending, especially, is hugely disappointing, even moronic.

[An] unsettling paranoia thriller...

A movie that needs to just go off the rails at a certain point and arguably doesn't do so until its disappointing final scene.

As long as "Broadcast Signal Intrusion" stays in the realm of shadowy ambiguity, it's effectively suspenseful.

Jacob Gentry's film punches through all the layers of homage to arrive at a place of true horror.

Starring Harry Shum Jr as a video archivist on a mission, Broadcast Signal Intrusion is a paranoia-fuelled, noir-like sci-fi thriller that doesn't quite know what to do with its irresistible premise.

[the film] keeps the audience in the dark as much as it does its protagonist... The viewer inevitably grows more entangled in James’ investigation, and by extension becomes complicit in his increasingly erratic behaviours.

Broadcast Signal Intrusion really delivers on slow creeping atmosphere. Directed by Jacob Gentry and written by Phil Drinkwater and Tim Woodall, it riffs on a few classic movies but its a credit to the films construction that nothing feels derivative.

An OK horror cocktail, with a finale that tries ever-so-hard to deliver something ugly and confronting, which, of course, is what we all want from horror films. Predictability prevents it from paying off, but undemanding fans of the genre should be happy.