![]() He’s a distinctly masculine man – not in an Arnie sort of way, but in the sort of way that means he’s cold, quiet, emotionless. Shum Jr is the standout as James: a purposefully blank slate, guided to explore the BSIs first by boredom, then, by grief and rage. The performances, to begin with, are more than solid. However, there is still much of Gentry’s strange film to unpick. The minutiae of BSI are difficult to discuss without delving into spoiler territory, because much of what makes the film work is in its last ten minutes. ![]() It’s a film that leans more towards mystery than horror, but it’s undoubtedly an unsettling, ultimately devastating watch. Gentry’s film follows video archivist James (an excellent, understated Harry Shum Jr) as he unearths a fascinating, horrifying conspiracy of broadcast signal intrusions in the 1980s and 90s that may or may not be connected to his missing wife. And now we can add Jacob Gentry’s Broadcast Signal Intrusion to this disconcerting list. Just last year, Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor embodied the video nasty era of the 1980s as it followed a woman on her quest to find her missing sister, using different cameras as she furthered her descent into madness. Scott Derrickson put it to truly horrific use in 2012’s Sinister, in which a demonic entity possesses small children and makes them kill their family, while also forcing the child to film the murders on a camcorder. The film form is of interest to many genre filmmakers. ![]() The ghost of toxic masculinity haunts this techno horror-mystery from Jacob Gentry. ![]()
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