In the very beginning of the movie a thunderstorm is booming over head a power plant. Then the bolt strikes a power line sending a sudden surge in power in the station. My theory (and dont laugh) Aliens somehow were able to manipulate our weather and caused the lightning to strike precisely on the power line thus creating the pulse. I also feel the aliens were the ones controlling the pulse and the actions we saw in the movie.
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I won't laugh, as that is similar to what I thought as well. The 'electricity's action" had design and purpose, it was NOT random so therefore has to be controlled by someone or something.
When I first saw this film back in the '80s, the VHS box said "Aliens transmit messages via elctrical appliances." I was skeptical of that description after seeing the film. After all, what 'messages' exactly are they trying to send?? That they want to control us, that they can destroy us....or worse make us insane and destroy ourselves? That we're too dependent on electricity???
Then recently, I read a different description. It said "What if our electricity was being controlled by someone else? Someone not very nice? What if they wanted to control bigger things, like us?"
On viewing the film again, that's what I think: that either aliens or some alternate dimension/universe of evil wanted to control them. Or simply torment them.....or both!
I'll never understand WHY the film didn't bother to explain itself?? WTH was up with that?!
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
Your theory isn't more crazy then anyone else's, but there NEEDS to be a "Why" and a "How" connected to this movie! It reminded me of Poltergeist, but that film had a back story & reasoning. This was simply "rouge electricity?" And it would just movie from house to house and stay there, driving everyone crazy in that particular house until everyone was killed... Only THEN it would move to the next house? When, in a city the size of L.A.... Where thousands of houses would share one grid...?
I am a movie lover, and I fully understand the "suspension of belief" one would need to appreciate sci-fi & horror movies... But this was just way too much to swallow.
Trust me,
Swan
My, you're nosey, aren't you?
I like that the movie doesn't over-explain it.
shareI think the message was that it is us, with our over-reliance on technology, doing it to ourselves. I wouldn't say it's a particularly hard-hitting film but how pertinent a message that has become in 2015.
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