![]() ![]() Then ‘Dan Martin’ turned it into silicone-based nightmare fuel.” Once we began creating the pop-cultural ephemera within the world of our story such as the 80s sitcom character, SAL-E Sparks, which would’ve inspired our fictional video pirates, we cross-pollinated that with Tara the Android and a host of other unsettling video artifacts from the recesses of our disturbed minds. “Then once we began designing it, a creepypasta from the early days of Youtube called “I Feel Fantastic” aka “Tara The Android” was a primary touchstone for the aesthetic. “The concept of the creepy android was in Phil and Tim’s original script,” he reveals. “Even though our version of the intrusions is fictionalized, there are many interesting parallels between fact and fiction.”Ĭautioned with a spoiler warning, the tapes presented in Broadcast Signal Intrusion all feature an absolutely horrifying android. “ Broadcast Signal Intrusion is set in the late 90s and is a kind of historical fiction of similar events that focuses on a video archivist discovering them while transferring decade-old videotapes,” he adds, explaining how the real-life event influenced the story of the film. It was considered a federal crime at the time, but even after a long FBI investigation the case still remains unsolved to this day.” ![]() ![]() “They hacked the signal of both the nightly news on WGN and ‘Doctor Who’ on the PBS affiliate with bizarre videos of someone wearing a Max Headroom mask with strange distorted ranting over eerie feedback sounds. “It’s inspired in large part by a 1987 event known as ‘ The Max Headroom Incident‘ where video pirates hijacked the broadcasts of two different Chicago TV stations on the same night,” Gentry tells Bloody Disgusting ahead of tonight’s premiere. The coolest aspect of Broadcast Signal Intrusion is that it was inspired by actual broadcast interruptions that occurred in Chicago in the late 1980s, and remain unsolved to this day. Now James must confront two very real possibilities: that the videos may be clues to a crime beyond all comprehension and that whoever was behind them may be very aware that James is coming uncomfortably close to the truth.” His discovery takes a sinister turn when he tracks down similar broadcast intrusions that send him on an obsessive mission. “While logging tapes of decades-old TV broadcasts, video archivist James discovers a surreal and disturbing clip that James believes is the product of a mysterious broadcast signal hacking. World Premiering tonight at SXSW is The Signal director Jacob Gentry‘s thriller Broadcast Signal Intrusion, billed as “an unsettling journey into our collective technological nightmares, confronting our deepest, darkest fears of both man and machine.” ![]()
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