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outshine plotline in stylish sci-fi head trip   Indebted to both
"District 9" and "The Blair Witch Project," but unlikely to
enjoy the success of either of those films, "The Signal" has
absolutely no relation to the low-budget horror triptych of the
same name that premiered in Sundance's Park City at Midnight
section seven years ago. Instead, director William Eubank's
sophomore feature begins with hacker pals Nic (Brenton Thwaites)
— coping with the early stages of MS — and Jonah (Beau Knapp)
tracking a mysterious online presence dubbed Nomad who taunts
and tantalizes them. The boys get so wound up, they agree to
meet Nomad face-to-face, with Nic's girlfriend Haley (Olivia
Cooke) in tow.  That decision leads to a sequence right out of
"Blair Witch," or at least "Catfish," in which the three find
themselves inside an eerie abandoned house at night, and the
story's sci-fi twists really start to escalate. After blacking
out, Nic wakes up in a government