Signs (2002) | The Fact taht I didn't watch this at a formative age is a travesty.
I first referenced this movie in my review of Our Strange Skies , a podcast about UFOs. I had heard of it vaguely knew it was a beloved cult horror film but had never really had much interest in watching it. From what I knew it had a scary scene at a birthday party and it was the makeup of Scary Movie 3. The fact that it was a Shyamalan film escaped my notice. For most of my adult life people have been shitting on M. Night Shyamalan. If there not making tired and cliche jokes about his 'shitty twists', there usually bagging on some movie that failed to meet there expectation. Usually something he did in the early 2000s. For me if you put a gun to my head and asked me to remember something about him I would remember like the colorism discourse around his Avatar movie or the way that he demonizes a lot of mental illnesses in his modern films. I want to be clear here that Shyamalan isn't universally considered a bad director. It's merely that the highs of his career are ...
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