In case anyone is wondering, this is from Signs (2002).
They would literally die if you piss on them.
Just watched this again last week after years. Movie still holds up. My kids enjoyed it too. More thrillers like it need to be made.
There’s a scene where Phoenix and Gibson are just quietly talking about fate for like 10 minutes in that dark while the kids sleep, and it’s captivating.
The acting, dialog, and theme are all incredible.
Also: I’m a big believer that it’s al not about aliens, but about demons that are manifestations of people’s fear. And they’re defeated by acts of faith and hope.
Everyone in town talking about their fears of what the aliens will be is correct, and on the radio, they never actually explain what killed them worldwide.
And you never actually see a spaceship or any kind of technology for that matter.
Yeah this alien fucked me up as a kid, this movie was absolutely wild
Like yeah the twist was a little dumb but Signs was a great movie overall. Tension for the whole family. I really enjoyed it.
I’m sorry but the ‘swing away’ line is silly and I make fun of it every time I think of it
I read somewhere that they weren’t aliens, they were demons, and the water only worked because it was blessed, so it became holy water. What a twist!
They called the little girl an angel more than once.
Also see where he locked one in a closet and it couldn’t get out. Don’t know if that’s a demon thing or not, but he couldn’t see it’s reflection in the knife.
It turns out that Shyamalan, in an interview from 2006, has confirmed this.
“You know what I said about giving a Dracula movie a deceptive title? That’s what I did with Signs. That was a story about a war between Heaven and Hell. The aliens were demons and the people’s dead loved ones were angels.”
What a twist!
It wasn’t just the alien, it was the setup of the scene and the reaction of Joaquins character. Brilliant moment in a silly movie.
There was an old lady sitting in crying of me at the theatre, and when the cupboard scene jump scare happened I kicked the back of her reclining seat so hard I knocked her into the floor.
I noticed a few years later that all the theaters had changed the seats so that the back of the reclining seats are no longer directly exposed, so I’m guessing it wasn’t a unique incident.
