Eight days ago I was waiting for an IRT uptown train and close to going nuts from a pulsing high-pitched whine that sounded like the cry of the mutant ants in Them! (’54). This morning Patton Oswalt tweeted that an eerie ringtone coming out of someone’s cell phone had the same damn sound. If this was a ’50s sci-fi film, somebody would wave this off as a coincidence. But this is real life. A voice is telling me something’s up.
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