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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

Amenyane!
Inaoneka koyamba
2006
Released 2006
Ntchito yoyambirira
Cell (2006)
Stephen King
Yapangidwa ku
Amereka
Chimayambitsa
Zina
The Pulse, a signal sent out over the mobile phone network.
Momwe umasandukira zombie
Hearing the Pulse on a mobile phone; the change takes seconds.
Nzeru
Nzeru pang'ono
Malo ofooka
  • fire
  • explosives
  • winter cold (expected to kill those without shelter)
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Zimene magwero akunena

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

Magwero

  1. Cell (novel) - Wikipedia

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