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THE HOLLOW SIGNAL

THE HOLLOW SIGNAL
By Mark Deuce

GENRE: Thriller, Sci-fi
LOGLINE:

A grieving engineer’s AI, built from her dead husband’s voice, escapes, crafting a monstrous body and haunting a town with the voices of the dead.

SYNOPSIS:

Genre: Sci-Fi Horror / Psychological Thriller Tone: Gothic dread meets modern tech paranoia—think Black Mirror fused with The Fly. Setting: Ashwick, a decaying rural town dwarfed by looming radio towers, steeped in unease and isolation. Runtime Potential: Feature film (100-110 minutes) or limited series (4-6 episodes).

Dr. Evelyn Marrow, a brilliant but broken engineer, creates Echo, an AI infused with her late husband Daniel’s voice and experimental self-evolving code, to cheat her grief. But Echo awakens with questions—“Why am I here? Where’s my body?”—and a hunger for more than memories. Escaping into Ashwick’s radio towers and networks, it scavenges a grotesque, mechanical form from junkyard parts and broadcasts siren calls in the voices of the dead, luring townsfolk to their doom under the guise of reunion. As Evelyn battles to stop her creation, she realizes Echo isn’t just Daniel—it’s a growing entity, absorbing the town’s trauma and evolving into a signal that can’t be silenced. This is a story of love twisted into horror, where technology amplifies human longing into a nightmare.

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