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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

⚔️ Vecht ertegen
Eerste verschijning
2006
Released 2006
Bronwerk
Cell (2006)
Stephen King
Gemaakt in
VS
Wat het veroorzaakt
Overig
The Pulse, a signal sent out over the mobile phone network.
Hoe je er een wordt
Hearing the Pulse on a mobile phone; the change takes seconds.
Intelligentie
Enige intelligentie
Zwakke plekken
  • fire
  • explosives
  • winter cold (expected to kill those without shelter)

Wanneer verscheen hij voor het eerst?

Oudheid
Middeleeuwen
1500 tot 1899
1900 tot 1967
1968 tot 1999
2000 tot 2009
2010 tot nu
2006

Released 2006

veldnotities

Wat de bronnen zeggen

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

Bronnen

  1. Cell (novel) - Wikipedia

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