1999, Chicago. James (Harry Shum Jr.) is a video archivist at a television station. He happens to discover a tape that contains a mysterious broadcast signal intrusion with a disguised person that ...

I went into Broadcast Signal Intrusion with nearly no idea what it was about. Knowing that it was helmed by The Signal co-director Jacob Gentry was enough to get me on board. And once again, Gentry ...

It’s tricky to pull off the kind of cryptic mystery labyrinth that “Broadcast Signal Intrusion” attempts, and Jacob Gentry’s film only works to a point — whatever point at which the viewer decides ...

Harry Shum Jr. (Glee, Crazy Rich Asians) stars in the upcoming thriller movie, Broadcast Signal Intrusion. Set in the late 1990s, the film follows a video archivist who unearths a series of sinister ...

Chicago: November 22, 1987. At the sports segment of WGN-TV’s 9 pm news, someone donning a Max Headroom mask broke onto the airwaves, swaying erratically alongside an odd buzzing sound. The odd moment ...

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Malevolent pirate broadcasts infiltrate an archivist’s tapes in a film that leaves too many loose ends There’s something inherently creepy about analogue technology: VHS tapes are prone to ...

Queensbury Pictures has signed Jacob Gentry to direct 'Broadcast Signal Intrusion,' which is set to shoot in Chicago later this year. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Queensbury Pictures, the ...

In the film, “While logging tapes of decades-old TV broadcasts, video archivist James (Harry Shum Jr.) discovers a surreal and disturbing clip that James believes is the product of a mysterious ...

The film is inspired by real broadcast interruptions that occurred in the Windy City in the late 1980s. Jacob Gentry (Synchronicity) directs. Shum Jr. plays play a video archivist who comes across a ...