Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Stephen King's Cell opens on a signal broadcast over the global cell phone network that instantly turns most of humanity into mindless, vicious animals. The sole thread of purpose left belongs to a New England artist who sets out to find his young son in a world that has turned murderous overnight. Stories near this one share that same violent rupture — ordinary life annihilated by a hidden channel, and one person navigating the wreckage with everything personal at stake.
Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals.
From the Wikipedia article Cell_(novel), available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Cell
A direct adaptation — the same cell-network signal triggers the same murderous epidemic among New England survivors.
Film
The Cell
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer's mind to save his latest victim.
Film
Cellular
A young man's cell phone connects him to a kidnapped woman whose husband and child are the next targets.
Film
Cell Phone
A TV host's phone holds so many secrets that when its contents get out, catastrophe follows.
Film
Cyborg X
A cyber virus seizes a weapons manufacturer and turns its machines into a lethal army survivors must destroy.
Film
The Cello
An aspiring cellist discovers the cost of his new instrument is far more insidious than the price tag.
Series
Cellphone Investigator 7
A high-schooler stumbles into a covert agency fighting cyber terrorism and is partnered with an AI.
Series
Click
A technology news programme covering the latest gadgets, apps, and digital issues.
Series
BrainDead
Alien spawn eat the brains of Washington politicians, and a young Hill staffer watches the government stop working.
Series
Cells at Work! CODE BLACK
Inside a body ravaged by alcohol and stress, blood cells fight a war that never ends.
Series
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
Stephen King's hospital drama where patients and staff hear a mysterious girl's voice in the walls.
Series
Calls
Interconnected phone calls pull strangers toward an apocalyptic event, with communication as the ominous thread.
Book
Dead Man's Cell Phone
Jean answers a dead man's ringing phone at a cafe and is drawn into something far darker than expected.
Book
It [1/2]
A companion volume to *It* — synopsis data is too thin to characterise further.
Book
Hell Phone
A used cell phone brings desperate callers — including one from Hell — to a teenager who just wanted to text his girlfriend.
Book
Cell
A radiology resident watches smartphones begin to transform medicine in a sweeping paradigm shift.
Book
Contagious
A mysterious pathogen turns ordinary people into raging killers in an epic story of humanity's secret battle.
Book
Blackout
The world's most destructive computer virus is unleashed, and five street kids race to stop it.
The 2016 film adaptation Cell follows the same premise of a signal turning people into violent creatures, while Calls on TV delivers a similarly apocalyptic dread through interconnected phone conversations building to catastrophe.
Contagious mirrors Cell's premise closely — a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers across America, offering the same large-scale survival panic with a biological twist instead of a signal.
It taps into everyday tech anxiety — the phone as weapon — wrapping a stripped-down survival chase around a father desperately trying to reach his son, making the horror feel both intimate and apocalyptically vast.