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Phoners

EbitaboAkwatiddwa, akyali mulamu2000 okutuuka 2009

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

Lwanyisa
Yasooka okulabika
2006
Released 2006
Omulimu gwe kyava
Cell (2006)
Stephen King
Kyakolebwa mu
Amerika
Ekikireeta
Ebirala
The Pulse, a signal sent out over the mobile phone network.
Engeri omuntu gy'afuukamu omu ku bo
Hearing the Pulse on a mobile phone; the change takes seconds.
Amagezi
Amagezi matono
Ebifo ebinafu
  • fire
  • explosives
  • winter cold (expected to kill those without shelter)
ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

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

Ensibuko

  1. Cell (novel) - Wikipedia

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