Signs: M. Night Shyamalan's Alien Thriller Turns 20
Movie conversations can get a little tense when the name M. Night Shyamalan comes up. When thinking of Shyamalan, muddled plots and twist endings that make zero sense may come to mind. It's quite reasonable, considering that the critically shredded After Earth and Avatar: The Last Airbender are both part of his filmmaking resume. But before all the bad twist endings and muddled plots, M. Night Shyamalan was seen as the next big filmmaker in Hollywood.
Right out of the gate, Shyamalan's first two movies were The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, two movies considered as his best. Beyond that, they were some of the best movies of the late 90s to early 2000s. To this day, The Sixth Sense is seen as an all-time great horror/thriller, and Unbreakable is still one of the best deconstructions of the superhero genre — which is quite an impressive feat seeing as how much the superhero genre has grown since Unbreakable's release. But it was twenty years ago now that his first blemish would appear on his resume: the 2002 alien thriller, Signs.
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The movie features an impressive cast. Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) is a former reverend who now takes care of his two children, played by Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin, with the help of his brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix). The film takes place on their farm after the death of Graham's wife. When «signs» start to point to the otherworldly danger coming, the life of the Hess family begins to turn even more upside down. What follows is a series of what seems to be unconnected moments that lead up to another M. Night Shyamalan twist.
The movie actually did quite well at the box office, going well over its 70 million dollar budget. But what made Signs the first glimpse intoShyamalan's
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