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Originally Posted by _____V_____
As a standalone film maybe it can be called semi-decent but after all the marketing and hype of it being a horror film, and because of Shyamalan's brand name behind it, I went in expecting a solid horror film (I am a huge, huge fan of Unbreakable, loved The Sixth Sense, and Signs was more than decent too, IMO).
Imagine my jaw dropping in sheer surprise, and that followed by seething anger the moment the "twist" came in midway through the film! What followed from the "twist" onwards is well-known by now that it wasn't horror in the REMOTEST of senses.
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When I watched that movie, I loved the first part of it - then "the twist" came, and the movie was completely ruined for me. So I totally agree with you. It COULD have been a good movie if it had allowed to actually BE a horror movie. But it left me feeling like a kid who has just been told that Santa isn't real.
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Originally Posted by Straker
Signs- I thought this was a horror movie list not a sci-fi list.... I'm all for blurring the genre lines a little, but if ever a movie was out and out sci-fi its this one. Its also pretty mediocre outside the performance of Joaquin Phoenix.
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Signs is - for ME personally - one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen. When I first attempted to watch it, I had to leave the room, and I think that's the only time a horror movie has done that to me in my adult life.
I do get what you're saying about sci-fi, but I heard no complaints about Alien or The Thing making the lists... Signs is about "monsters from space" too.