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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

Di lwantshe
E tlhagile la ntlha
2006
Released 2006
Tiro ya metswedi
Cell (2006)
Stephen King
E dirilwe kwa
Amerika
Se se e bakang
Tse dingwe
The Pulse, a signal sent out over the mobile phone network.
O fetoga yone jang
Hearing the Pulse on a mobile phone; the change takes seconds.
Botlhale
Botlhale bo bonnye
Bokoa
  • fire
  • explosives
  • winter cold (expected to kill those without shelter)
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

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

Metswedi

  1. Cell (novel) - Wikipedia

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