What happens at the school brings the thus-far only rather confusing series of events into the realm of absurdity. Passing by a prep school, Clay, Tom, and Alice meet the headmaster, Charles Ardai (Stacy Keach) and one of his pupils, Jordan (Owen Teague), who show them an entire stadium full of what they are calling “phoners,” all laying on the ground, apparently recharging and somehow connected to a central signal.
They are less violent, starting to flock, and seem to be moving and acting in some kind of concerted, collective way (and this is where the parallel to The Happening comes in). On the way north, Clay, Tom, and Alice realize that the behavior of those affected by the Pulse is changing.
Together, the three of them decide to head up to New Hampshire where Clay’s estranged wife and son live: he was talking to his wife on the phone when the “Pulse” struck, and he desperately wants to find them, hoping against hope that they are unaffected. Managing to escape the mayhem, Clay meets up with Tom McCourt (Jackson) and they make it back to Clay’s apartment where they pick up fellow survivor Alice Maxwell (Isabelle Fuhrman), traumatized from having just killed her mother. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening (2008), though not nearly as good as either (yes, not as good as The Happening!).Ĭlay Riddell (Cusack) is at the airport in Boston when everyone talking on a cell phone (which is just about, well, everyone) starts foaming at the mouth and savaging their neighbors (this is the part that’s like 28 Days Later and all of its fast zombie successors). Jackson, and was written in part by Stephen King himself, promised much more than what, unfortunately, has been delivered.Ĭell is something of a cross between Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later (2002) and M. Moreover, the fact that Cell is directed by Tod Williams, who also directed Paranormal Activity 2 (in my view, the best entry in the franchise), stars John Cusack and Samuel L. Cell is a disaster, and I say that as someone who has read (and liked) Stephen King’s novel and was very much looking forward to this adaptation.
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