Heading north through New England in search of his wife and son, Clay Riddell (Cusack) is joined by a group of survivors hoping to fend off the bloodthirsty and hyper-connected “phoners. When a powerful signal is broadcast across mobile networks worldwide, cell phone users’ minds are instantly and dangerously re-programmed. 1 2 The novel follows Charlie Reade, a 17-year-old who inherits keys to a hidden, otherworldly realm, and finds himself leading the battle between forces of good and evil. That alone is more than enough to ensure I'll be watching. Fairy Tale is a dark fantasy novel by American author Stephen King, published on Septemby Scribner. What it does have is the endlessly delightful John Cusack sporting some batshit crazy hair while he battles a zombie horde alongside Sam Jackson. With the zombie apocalypse landscape so saturated over the last decade, I hope Cell can deliver some subversive subgenre good in the vein of 2007's The Signal, but it doesn't seem to have the intimacy of that movie. The effects don't look particularly impressive and the "phoners" are essentially zombie tropes with a bit of a techno-bent thrown in. As a movie, Cell looks like a meh-level Stephen King adaptation that could be a good time. As a novel, Cell was meh-level Stephen King, an amusing if inconsequential read that cribbed a bit too much from his better works.
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