Shortwave

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Josh (a solid and likeable performance by Cristobal Tapia Montt) and Isabel Harris (a fine and affecting portrayal by Juanita Ringeling) move to a secluded hillside research facility in the wake of the disappearance of their only child. Josh and his assistant Thomas (nicely played by Kyle Davis) experience a breakthrough on their work with a cryptic radio signal that in turn has a negative influence on Isabel. Writer/director Ryan Gregory Phillips relates the absorbing story at a steady pace, takes time to develop the characters, grounds the fantastic premise in a believable everyday reality, ably crafts an eerie and unsettling mood, makes a poignant central point on the need for closure following the unexpected loss of a loved one, and even tosses in a pretty nasty twist at the end for good measure. Moreover, Dominic Fallacaro's pounding score and the evocative sound design further enhance the overall unnerving atmosphere. Lucas Garth's sharp widescreen cinematography provides an impressive polished look. A neat little sci-fi/horror item.

"I want my 88 minutes back!" Worst filck ever...Mean it as it is total garbage...

More than 1 hour of the movie dont tell anything, is just like a house video of spinning records, seen a model doing nonsense things on a bikini, non sense scenes, false dialogues, bad performance, 10 mins could be more than enough to tell same thing, i mean nothing. total waste of time.

This is not a bad effort for the budget it had. It keeps moving along nicely and kept me entertained most of the way. Juanita Ringeling acted the lead role very well, and was quite likable and charming in that I did not mind going all the way with her through the movie, even in her most gruesome scenes. The movie may have tried to do to much what it had at its disposal, but still I would recommend to watch.

I am a fan of sci-fi movies combined with a little terror or horror, but this one it's just too slow and makes no sense. It's like new directors only know how to scare people by using very sharp sounds and music but no drama, no story or lines. I can't believe a movie like this which had all the potential to be incredible, it's a >6 on punctuation.

Stupid waste! I couldn't get past the first 5 minutes! The beginning annoyed me so much I had to shut it off. Does the creator of this film have a * with women's calves while they run???? STUPID!!!!!

This is a slow, drawn out movie that combines essence of "The Outer Limits" weirdness to a very slow and painfully drawn out conclusion of what seemed to be an intriguing plot. You learn very early about why Isabel and Josh have moved out to a location in the middle of nowhere, and the fact Josh is involved in a science project, but that's about all you know about for 25 minutes as the movie drags on and reminds you of these facts over and over again. The music does not help. The ambient backing track is hypnotic in places, and with the slow pace of the movie you'll be forgiven for falling asleep in places. I began to start skipping 10 seconds here, and 20 seconds there waiting for something to new happen. The acting was OK, and there was a needless scene of Juanita Ringeling masturbating (there you go skip to 22 minutes in and enjoy). This is not a spoiler as it has very little relevance to the plot if any. The movie did not need it, but I suppose its one way to keep viewers from switching off at this point. I'm sure the writers will give you plenty of excuses for it being in the movie. On the whole the movie was painfully slow, the writers struggled to make the plot stretch for 80 minutes. I had to turn on subtitles on halfway through because the actors were talking / shouting over each other and areas that were scary were only made so because of the very loud sound effects, otherwise, nothing makes you jump. How can I get these 80 minutes of my life back?

Thanks to Shortwave I think we have a new definition for the word "boring", if not "extremely boring". First of all I am a fan of sci-fi movies. There is always alot of potential in that genre of movies because almost everything is permitted, even the craziest stories, but it has to be a good entertaining story. And that's the major problem with this movie, it is everything but entertaining. The story is boring and incredibly slow. The acting is a disaster, especially from Juanita Ringeling. She's so annoying to watch that it is difficult to do worse than her. I don't know if it was the director's orders but apparently the main thing she does is walk very slowly and caress all kind of random objects, like a tree, a bamboo stick, a door, a kitchen counter, her private parts and so on. I really struggled to stay awake and I was not even tired. How this movie got those ratings on here is just a mystery to me.

The tries hard to be "deep" and "thought provoking", but comes across as an embarrassing mess. The half-blurry cinematography was atrocious. The acting was uninspired and wooden. The most disturbing part was the amazingly bad wig the girl wears in her flashbacks.