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Phoners

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Phoners are people turned into violent killers by a signal carried on mobile phones in Stephen King's 2006 novel. They move from attacking everyone in sight to flocking and acting as a single telepathic mind. The novel follows an artist searching for his young son after the signal hits Boston.1

Fa ko
Ɛdii kan puee
2006
Released 2006
Fibea ho adwuma
Cell (2006)
Stephen King
Wɔyɛɛ no wɔ
Amerika
Deɛ ɛde ba
Ɛfoforɔ
The Pulse, a signal sent out over the mobile phone network.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
Hearing the Pulse on a mobile phone; the change takes seconds.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • fire
  • explosives
  • winter cold (expected to kill those without shelter)
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

At first they attack anyone in sight1

2

Later they gather in flocks, for example on a football pitch, and switch off together overnight1

3

A flock behaves as a single mind and develops psychic powers, including the power to compel people to kill themselves1

4

A character theorises that later phoners received a corrupted version of the signal, like a computer worm1

5

Filmed in 2016 with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson; King rewrote the ending for the screenplay1

Fibea

  1. Cell (novel) - Wikipedia

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