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Illustration of Phoners
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Phoners

IzincwadiUtheleleke, usaphila2000 kuya ku-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

Lwa nayo
Kuvele kuqala
2006
Released 2006
Umsebenzi womthombo
Cell (2006)
Stephen King
Yenziwe ku-
I-USA
Okuyibangela
Okunye
The Pulse, a signal sent out over the mobile phone network.
Indlela oba ngayo yinye
Hearing the Pulse on a mobile phone; the change takes seconds.
Ubuhlakani
Ubuhlakani obuthile
Izindawo ezibuthaka
  • fire
  • explosives
  • winter cold (expected to kill those without shelter)

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Izwe lasenduloEzikhathini Eziphakathi1500 kuya ku-18991900 kuya ku-19671968 kuya ku-19992000 kuya ku-20092010 kuya namuhla2006

Released 2006

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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

Imithombo

  1. Cell (novel) - Wikipedia

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