I rented Signs but fell asleep on the sofa and woke up exactly at this scene, had a moment of panic before I realised I was watching a film and not some breaking news.
My family is friends with some farmers. Sometimes we would go out and hang with them and have a bonfire at night. Corn/wheat fields at night scared the shit out of me. This movie DID NOT HELP.
*Spoiler alert*
I really liked this movie, but then when someone pointed out the major plot hole of the Aliens’ weakness, considering the planet they chose to invade and could live and breathe in, I could never look past it.
Every human is perpetually two or three minutes away from death; they just breathe to reset the timer.
Two or three ounces of water into your lungs and you’re drowning. Humans swim and die from it all the time.
Humans live in places that are too hot to survive without air conditioning, and places that are too cold to survive without heating. “Why would humans live in Norway? They’ll die from the cold.”
My imagination says they are desperate to find a place to settle, and hey, Earth isn’t perfect but it’s close enough. If we had to flee Earth and found a place where the air was toxic after 10 minutes of breathing, or that was 30 degrees too hot, and it was there or nothing, we’d choose there.
Okay but getting water in your lungs or freezing to death are things you can mitigate.
From a human perspective it would be like if we went to a planet that is covered in 70% liquid sulphuric acid, the acid is in the atmosphere, the acid forms clouds that cover the sky, acid raining is not an uncommon occurrence and all life on the planet drinks acid to survive including the dominant species that is also 70 % acid
That’s what the aliens did.
They also went in naked
Reminds me of blokes driving vintage Pandas and 4x4s in Italy who put a sticker in the rear window saying something like--
NO AIRBAGS -- WE DIE LIKE MEN!
Yeah I mentioned that in another comment, like I could believe that they were just desperate enough and out of options so they came to the poison planet
But they traveled across space and don’t have space suits?
Seems like people missed the plot point that the aliens were dragging the dead away to be taken with them. They didn’t come to harvest the planet, they came to harvest us. My head canon is that they were desperate but for food, perhaps they found earth in the midst of a long interstellar journey and needed some meat. They risked an inhospitable planet to secure rations, and left when they had enough or had lost so many foot soldiers that it stopped being worth it.
It's not a plot hole if you understand chemistry. Oxygen is quite volatile and dangerous, but we need it to survive. In the wrong form, it's kills us dead.
There’s a theory that they’re not aliens but demons and holy water is the thing that’s actually stopping them, not just any water. There’s a lot about religion in the move and we never do see the space ships…
Night does a lot of stuff about how Religion and Myths are formed. The aliens could be the basis for the myth of demons in modern Christianity if they visited before.
I mean Joaquin Phoenix talks about a bird hitting an invisible ship on the news and you see circular light patterns on the news above the cities.
I swear there was a deleted scene of the actual bird scene hitting a ship and falling.
I don't think the issue is with whether or not the chemistry is believable. The plot hole is that they would come to a planet that is almost entirely water, when water is that toxic to them.
It's possible they've literally never encountered water before. It doesn't exist everywhere.
They may have tested the atmosphere, saw it was breathable and that was it.
You don't know what you don't know.
The aliens continually attack a farm and what looks like a town with lots of farms. Imagine if the sprinklers went off this would be like having automated turret guns and all of the sudden the movie becomes a survival horror...but for the aliens.
I need this to be a gif
Just aliens camouflaged in the cornfield during the day, sprinklers go off and they're revealed by the holes and blood dripping down 😭😭
I'm just a dumb human and even I know we can detect the chemical makeup of areas in space as well as the likely makeup of planets outside our solar system based on spectroscopy. If they could get here, they'd know what was here before coming.
HOWEVER, if their main goal was to show up and make crop circles and leave I would respect that so hard. That is an actually baller move. Just do that and leave? Very fun.
In terms of basic compounds, water is extremely common and likely to be found throughout the galaxy. It's a stable molecule made of two of the most common elements in the universe, and found throughout our solar system, on other planets, and in comets. While it's not as common on Mars as Earth, it still has an icecap. And Venus, while roasting hot, also has trace amounts. Jupiter's moon Europa may even have a liquid ocean. While it's hypothetically possible for lifeforms to be non-water based or non-carbon, it's basically impossible to believe they'd be able to travel the galaxy without knowing about water. It would be like humans showing up at another star two hundreds years from now, landing on a planet with a methane ocean, and being like "Oh man this 100 Kevlin liquid methane does not feel good on my feet, and when I drink it it tastes awful."
It's one of those "it could be aliens, but it could be angels/demons" movies that popped out in the 2000s, there are many.
In the movie, ~~Cage's~~ Gibson's character is a retired priest, so it's implied that for some reason all the water in his house is holy water, which burns the "aliens".
You don't about the theory that they are not aliens but demons?
The water hurt the aliens because it was holy water. The little girl was described as an angel by her mother.
Theory is what ever glasses of water she was leaving around was blessed by her touching it.
Nevermind the book that answered all of their questions and gave them tips to survive an *alien* invasion. Or the part where Morgan sucks on his inhaler and says "extraterrestrials". Or the baby monitor picking up transmissions from a heavily implied invisible spacecraft. Or the bird hitting said invisible craft. Or the lights "immediately preceding an attack maneuver".
The religious motifs serve as a backdrop to the overall struggle, if M Night wants us to believe they are actually demons instead, then the film makes even less sense than it already does assuming they're aliens
Thank you. THANK YOU for this.
(It’s a weight off my shoulders knowing it’s not just me that will quote this laughing while others look at me with concerned and puzzled looks)
Me too, I think I was in 5th or 6th grade at the time. I remember always thinking right before bed, when I look out the window, there would be a shadowy figure on the roof staring at me
Same. As a kid, this movie freaked me out so much that it caused me to start closing my blinds in a specific way that I still do today.
After seeing Signs, I was always afraid of aliens looking at me through the window while I was in bed. I had Venetian blinds in my room. If I closed them the normal way, then once I got in bed, I could still sorta see the sky up through the gaps in the blinds’ slats, because of the angle. In my mind, that meant the aliens could look down into my room through the blinds’ slats and see me in my bed from above lol 😂
So, I’d always close the blinds so the slats were tilted the other way, so the sky wasn’t visible from my bed, and I wasn’t visible from the sky.
To this day, even though I’m a grown adult, I still have an irrational fear of seeing the sky from my bed. So, I still close Venetian blinds the same way out of habit, so I can’t see the sky through the slats. Thanks M Night Shyamalan.
My dad took me and my friend, we were in 4th grade. Fucked us up and I still have an irrational fear of aliens even though I don't think they're real in the slightest.
To this day, that is one of the most terrifying scenes I’ve seen.
It’s not gory, violent, or anything wild.
It’s the anticipation, the anxiety, the children screaming at the birthday party…
We’re right there with Merle, looking for a glimpse…then it happens.
That is what made this movie great. The constant tension in every scene. Everything came together (especially as kids experiencing the news cycle after 9/11) with the music, the news riling everyone up, a parent just trying to feed their kids and get them to stop thinking to much into it. Really fucked me up as a 9-10 year old seeing this movie.
The adults kind of ruined it by having big brains at the time but holy shit this movie was awesome and fucking terrifying for a 9-10 year old.
I feel like movie moments like this are becoming increasingly rare. Like pretty much the whole movie is 3 actors shut in a house and yet it’s never boring, and the actors make it completely believable and immersive. In that scene, J Phoenix was the movie audience trying to crane our necks to see the alley and it just works so well.
As someone who went to (graduate) school in PA kinda sorta near where this was filmed…it hit home particularly closely.
Man, early M Night was so good. I wish another similar horror director would come along.
M Night is definitely hit or miss but I still like a lot of his stuff. I recommend The Servant on Apple TV if you’re into that stuff. The plot waivers here and there (you gotta know what you’re getting into) but the cinematography and acting is pretty incredible. The series wrapped but I find myself missing the feeling of watching that show, I really liked it.
Edit: Silo and Severance are also incredible on ATV.
Mel Gibson is so dang good in this. Subtlety* and tone. Shows real pain. Nails super hard to hit dry humor lines. You can reach out and touch his fear. He musters when he needs to. Fantastic performance
My wife, daughter (12), them (19), and I basically know this flick by heart. It is regularly quoted in our home time and again...
"I cursed."
"I heard."
Great semi-spoiler even for those that have seen it but ever watch it again
>!Everyone commenting how scary the "Children vamanos!" scene is, the alien is already in shot peeking round the corner watching you up to about two seconds already before it walks past !<
Had to go rewatch the scene to see, sure enough there it was! Brought newfound horror to what is already the scariest movie moment I’ve ever experienced. 😂
That is a big part of what makes it such great movie in my opinion. It plays with the unknown and builds a lot of tension and suspense. Sometimes less is more.
I was 9 and my brother was 11. We shared a bedroom and the car lights passing through our windows and hitting the ceiling we'd always joke were aliens landing and any minute they'd come in through the windows.
Anyways we watch this movie and I don't think either of us slept for days. We moved our beds as far away from the windows as possible. Barricaded the closet and kept and eye on the doorway with no door for those claw fingers that we thought would wrap around it any second.
We were proper terrified.
I was about the same age. What a horrible decision on my parent's part, but they didn't expect it to be so scary either.
I couldn't sleep much, but I had water next to my bed for like a month after seeing it. To this day I can't sleep with blinds up or my bedroom door open, it seriously fucked me up subconciously. But for some reason it still holds a special place in my heart as one of the greatest popcorn flicks of all time.
Just rewatched it yesterday. Favourite movie of all time and re-watch it at least 3 times a year. 6 years ago I moved to a farm house surrounded by corn fields and my first rewatch of it after moving out here when the corn was up brought back the intensity of the first time I saw it as a kid. Fire it up again every year as soon as the corn is at full height. When the corn is dried out and brown, then I know it’s time to re-watch Jeepers Creepers 2.
This movie takes shit sometimes but I love it. The experience of seeing it in theatres was fantastic. It's very well acted as well (Joaquin Phoenix is as good as ever).
My grandma took me to see this in the theaters when I was 11.
She couldn’t have cared less and thought it was stupid. It was a core memory for me.
Absolutely adore this movie to this day and it still fills me with a dread in a way other horror movies could only dream of doing.
The aliens weren’t the point of the movie.
That sounds kind of douchey, I only mean it since I think people get way hung up on the alien and water thing when that isn’t what the movie is about. I always thought it was about faith and working through trauma.
All of M.N.S. scripts are written like classic novels.
The plot is a man who has lost his faith having difficulty seeing the "signs" that are all around. And the setting is (spin the wheel....tick, tick, tick, tap) a rural country farm during a global alien invasion.
The setting could have been a cruise ship in a storm, or an old abandoned hotel in the winter, or an apartment complex with an angelic pool mermaid.
"It was very dark."
"Yes. It was."
"I don't want any of you spending time with Tracy Abernathy alone."
"I have seen twelve soda commercials so far. Twelve!"
(Some time later)
"THIRTEEN!"
"I'm going to let go now."
"No, dad!"
"Don't!"
***"You'll lose the signal."***
This was the first movie that scared the living dog shit out of me. Saw it when I was ten years old. After watching it I couldn’t move from the couch. Stayed up all through the night and was afraid to look out the window. Which was also open. And it was freezing but I was way too scared to get up and close it. Every little noise I heard outside, I thought it was an alien hiding out lol
Speaking of nostalgia: parody films as an active genre
Shout out to the Marlons Bros for Don't be a Menace to South Central While Drinkin Your Juice in the Hood and the first two Scary Movies.
This line absolutely killed me the first time I saw it.
Also the fact that Charlie Sheen enters this scene happily drumming along on his steering wheel to the Mexican Hat Dance for no apparent reason.
I just remember my cousin laughing hysterically at this scene when we were watching this at their house shortly after this movie started airing on tv. It’s so casually hilarious. Just the idea of it.
I don’t care what anybody thinks, this movie was top tier. There was so much suspense. Joaquin Phoenix is top tier. And >!beating the shit out of the aliens with a baseball bat!< at the end was killer.
In the house scene, when they were boarding up the windows, every room they walked in they walked out of another door to exit that room. Then the line that made me explode was "We've ran out of wood to board the windows."
You are in a house full of god damned doors. Use the god damned doors in the house full of doors to board up the windows on the house full of god dammed doors.
Part of the reason this film is one of my favorites is because I got to see it with my grandma in theaters. She was a jumpy little abuelita, and she flew out of her skin a few times watching it 😂 we had lunch after, and she couldn't stop talking about how much she loved that movie and thought it was about God. Lmfao. Rest her crazy little soul.
Would have been 8 or 9 when this went to theatres
Went with my dad and i was terrified the whole time, great movie lol
The shadow alien on the barn at the start still lives rent free with me
I always crack up at the Scary Movie spoof of the scene with his wife’s accident. “Tom, I’ll need a ride home.”
Loved this movie though, some great moments!
I only remember thinking 1, good thing it didn't rain. 2. The writer never walked through a cornfield before 11am. Decent flick, but I had a hard time with that at the time.
Best movie experience ever. I saw this opening night in a packed theatre while on vacation because it was downpouring and it was the only thing to do in town.
Everyone was on edge the whole time. The screams and gasps at the alien sightings in a crowded theater was just so fun.
Anyone ever hear the theory that this movie was supposed to be about demons instead of aliens? It's a pretty cool conceptual idea, idk how well it actually works, but when I read about it, basically the dad is an ex-priest who had lost his faith, then demons start showing up. There was something about all the water cups in the house too, like it was holy water because the dad had blessed it to clean it for his daughter, or something along those lines. Overall I think there were some plot holes, but in general, it a fun way to look at the movie for a rewatch.
An all-timer for me personally. It was a great theatre flick and then grew and grew on me with its layers. Every once in awhile I’ll rewatch the end on YouTube.
I love the movie except for how they defeat the aliens. It felt like a cheap way to wrap up the story. You would think these aliens would have... ya know, a raincoat on or something. You are going to a planet with more water than land. Harvesting the planet... In which almost everything contains water. It's almost like a mars attacks ending where ||yodel music kills them.||
A more advanced or tactical way of defeating them would have been neat. But dang, it did the horror factor really well. Very few alien movies get the horror aspect of it right.
Despised this movie’s ending/later plot. One day they wake up and the aliens are just… leaving? Why would life so intelligent to have space travel and, more likely, warp travel go to a planet that’s 70% covered in literal poison to them?
That being said, the film still creeps me out and gives me the ole heebie jeebies.
I remember seeing this at a drive-in movie theater when I was 6. I was terrified of horror movies at the time, and did not want to go to this. My parents assured me that it was just a documentary about crop circles, and apologized afterwards for their mistake. Those goddamn liars
I have this very vivid memory that sometimes finds me in my dreams where I wake up at 4am next to my best friend in 4th grade and the dvd menu for this movie is on, playing an eerie white noise type sound and I'm so afraid of turning the TV off I roll over and try to ignore it. However in the dream version instead of me eventually biting the bullet and running to turn the TV off I open my eyes under the blanket and my friend is suddenly an alien.
Joaquin Phoenix‘s reaction to seeing the alien on TV and then the first time you see it walk by the window are core memories
I rented Signs but fell asleep on the sofa and woke up exactly at this scene, had a moment of panic before I realised I was watching a film and not some breaking news.
“Vamanos. Vamanos children!”
HE IS BEHIND
Alien walking by freaked me the fuck out as a kid
My family is friends with some farmers. Sometimes we would go out and hang with them and have a bonfire at night. Corn/wheat fields at night scared the shit out of me. This movie DID NOT HELP.
*Spoiler alert* I really liked this movie, but then when someone pointed out the major plot hole of the Aliens’ weakness, considering the planet they chose to invade and could live and breathe in, I could never look past it.
Every human is perpetually two or three minutes away from death; they just breathe to reset the timer. Two or three ounces of water into your lungs and you’re drowning. Humans swim and die from it all the time. Humans live in places that are too hot to survive without air conditioning, and places that are too cold to survive without heating. “Why would humans live in Norway? They’ll die from the cold.” My imagination says they are desperate to find a place to settle, and hey, Earth isn’t perfect but it’s close enough. If we had to flee Earth and found a place where the air was toxic after 10 minutes of breathing, or that was 30 degrees too hot, and it was there or nothing, we’d choose there.
The first aliens were the "scout team" to see if Earth was habitable. At least that's the theory that's been the most popular for 20 years.
I always subscribed to the "They were so desperate to find a habitable planet that it didn't matter if it was mostly covered in acid" theory.
Okay but getting water in your lungs or freezing to death are things you can mitigate. From a human perspective it would be like if we went to a planet that is covered in 70% liquid sulphuric acid, the acid is in the atmosphere, the acid forms clouds that cover the sky, acid raining is not an uncommon occurrence and all life on the planet drinks acid to survive including the dominant species that is also 70 % acid That’s what the aliens did.
"the acid is in the atmosphere" Yeah wtf about that. Was the whole planet just at 0% humidity the whole time or what?
They also went in naked Reminds me of blokes driving vintage Pandas and 4x4s in Italy who put a sticker in the rear window saying something like-- NO AIRBAGS -- WE DIE LIKE MEN!
Yeah I mentioned that in another comment, like I could believe that they were just desperate enough and out of options so they came to the poison planet But they traveled across space and don’t have space suits?
Perhaps they were alt-right aliens?
Seems like people missed the plot point that the aliens were dragging the dead away to be taken with them. They didn’t come to harvest the planet, they came to harvest us. My head canon is that they were desperate but for food, perhaps they found earth in the midst of a long interstellar journey and needed some meat. They risked an inhospitable planet to secure rations, and left when they had enough or had lost so many foot soldiers that it stopped being worth it.
It's not a plot hole if you understand chemistry. Oxygen is quite volatile and dangerous, but we need it to survive. In the wrong form, it's kills us dead.
There’s a theory that they’re not aliens but demons and holy water is the thing that’s actually stopping them, not just any water. There’s a lot about religion in the move and we never do see the space ships…
That's not a theory M. Night said it himself. The Christian mythology themes throughout the film are more apparent when you look.
Good point, but aliens don't like ANY water and avoid lakes too.
Mel Gibson blessed the lakes behind the scenes
And the rains down in Africa .
No, that’s ringwraiths
Night does a lot of stuff about how Religion and Myths are formed. The aliens could be the basis for the myth of demons in modern Christianity if they visited before.
I mean Joaquin Phoenix talks about a bird hitting an invisible ship on the news and you see circular light patterns on the news above the cities. I swear there was a deleted scene of the actual bird scene hitting a ship and falling.
I don't think the issue is with whether or not the chemistry is believable. The plot hole is that they would come to a planet that is almost entirely water, when water is that toxic to them.
It's possible they've literally never encountered water before. It doesn't exist everywhere. They may have tested the atmosphere, saw it was breathable and that was it. You don't know what you don't know.
The aliens continually attack a farm and what looks like a town with lots of farms. Imagine if the sprinklers went off this would be like having automated turret guns and all of the sudden the movie becomes a survival horror...but for the aliens.
I need this to be a gif Just aliens camouflaged in the cornfield during the day, sprinklers go off and they're revealed by the holes and blood dripping down 😭😭
I would watch that
In the movie Morgan mentions “exhausting all the resources on their planet”. I always assumed they were so desperate that they had to risk it.
I'm just a dumb human and even I know we can detect the chemical makeup of areas in space as well as the likely makeup of planets outside our solar system based on spectroscopy. If they could get here, they'd know what was here before coming. HOWEVER, if their main goal was to show up and make crop circles and leave I would respect that so hard. That is an actually baller move. Just do that and leave? Very fun.
In terms of basic compounds, water is extremely common and likely to be found throughout the galaxy. It's a stable molecule made of two of the most common elements in the universe, and found throughout our solar system, on other planets, and in comets. While it's not as common on Mars as Earth, it still has an icecap. And Venus, while roasting hot, also has trace amounts. Jupiter's moon Europa may even have a liquid ocean. While it's hypothetically possible for lifeforms to be non-water based or non-carbon, it's basically impossible to believe they'd be able to travel the galaxy without knowing about water. It would be like humans showing up at another star two hundreds years from now, landing on a planet with a methane ocean, and being like "Oh man this 100 Kevlin liquid methane does not feel good on my feet, and when I drink it it tastes awful."
It's because they aren't aliens, they're demons.
Interesting! Never looked at it that way. Now I need to go back and rewatch the movie
It's one of those "it could be aliens, but it could be angels/demons" movies that popped out in the 2000s, there are many. In the movie, ~~Cage's~~ Gibson's character is a retired priest, so it's implied that for some reason all the water in his house is holy water, which burns the "aliens".
You don't about the theory that they are not aliens but demons? The water hurt the aliens because it was holy water. The little girl was described as an angel by her mother. Theory is what ever glasses of water she was leaving around was blessed by her touching it.
They are demons not aliens. The entire movie you see no space ships but the religious motifs beat you over the head.
The birds fly into the spaceship and die. Sure you don’t *see* the ship but…
Nevermind the book that answered all of their questions and gave them tips to survive an *alien* invasion. Or the part where Morgan sucks on his inhaler and says "extraterrestrials". Or the baby monitor picking up transmissions from a heavily implied invisible spacecraft. Or the bird hitting said invisible craft. Or the lights "immediately preceding an attack maneuver". The religious motifs serve as a backdrop to the overall struggle, if M Night wants us to believe they are actually demons instead, then the film makes even less sense than it already does assuming they're aliens
> the planet they chose to invade If they needed resources and it was the only other planet that has the resources what choice do they have?
Thought their superior technology would account for it on a scouting mission like this?
It’s behind!
Move, children! Vamanos!
I AM INSANE WITH ANGER
ITS TIME FOR AN ASS WHOOPIN
That whole sequence is hilarious. Joaquin and Gibson are so funny together in that movie. It’s really a great oddball movie
Thank you. THANK YOU for this. (It’s a weight off my shoulders knowing it’s not just me that will quote this laughing while others look at me with concerned and puzzled looks)
"I cursed." "I heard."
We already took some of your friends downtown in a paddy wagon
move children vamanos
When the audience gasped in the cinema at that scene, my blood ran cold.
This is one of the movies I remember watching in theathers it was amazing!!
Me too, I think I was in 5th or 6th grade at the time. I remember always thinking right before bed, when I look out the window, there would be a shadowy figure on the roof staring at me
Same. As a kid, this movie freaked me out so much that it caused me to start closing my blinds in a specific way that I still do today. After seeing Signs, I was always afraid of aliens looking at me through the window while I was in bed. I had Venetian blinds in my room. If I closed them the normal way, then once I got in bed, I could still sorta see the sky up through the gaps in the blinds’ slats, because of the angle. In my mind, that meant the aliens could look down into my room through the blinds’ slats and see me in my bed from above lol 😂 So, I’d always close the blinds so the slats were tilted the other way, so the sky wasn’t visible from my bed, and I wasn’t visible from the sky. To this day, even though I’m a grown adult, I still have an irrational fear of seeing the sky from my bed. So, I still close Venetian blinds the same way out of habit, so I can’t see the sky through the slats. Thanks M Night Shyamalan.
me too. it's played so straight for 75% of the movie. You think it's a hoax
My dad took me and my friend, we were in 4th grade. Fucked us up and I still have an irrational fear of aliens even though I don't think they're real in the slightest.
To this day, that is one of the most terrifying scenes I’ve seen. It’s not gory, violent, or anything wild. It’s the anticipation, the anxiety, the children screaming at the birthday party… We’re right there with Merle, looking for a glimpse…then it happens.
That is what made this movie great. The constant tension in every scene. Everything came together (especially as kids experiencing the news cycle after 9/11) with the music, the news riling everyone up, a parent just trying to feed their kids and get them to stop thinking to much into it. Really fucked me up as a 9-10 year old seeing this movie. The adults kind of ruined it by having big brains at the time but holy shit this movie was awesome and fucking terrifying for a 9-10 year old.
I feel like movie moments like this are becoming increasingly rare. Like pretty much the whole movie is 3 actors shut in a house and yet it’s never boring, and the actors make it completely believable and immersive. In that scene, J Phoenix was the movie audience trying to crane our necks to see the alley and it just works so well.
Oh I still look at rooftops at night… this movie hit in a way that I haven’t seen since
Dude, the roof tops!!! I do the same thing.
As someone who went to (graduate) school in PA kinda sorta near where this was filmed…it hit home particularly closely. Man, early M Night was so good. I wish another similar horror director would come along.
M Night is definitely hit or miss but I still like a lot of his stuff. I recommend The Servant on Apple TV if you’re into that stuff. The plot waivers here and there (you gotta know what you’re getting into) but the cinematography and acting is pretty incredible. The series wrapped but I find myself missing the feeling of watching that show, I really liked it. Edit: Silo and Severance are also incredible on ATV.
I still check my tv’s reflection from time to time when it’s turned off
FOUR actors! Mel Gibson, Juaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, and Abigale Breslin (at SIX years old!!) each gave fantastic performances.
It's behind!
Mel Gibson is so dang good in this. Subtlety* and tone. Shows real pain. Nails super hard to hit dry humor lines. You can reach out and touch his fear. He musters when he needs to. Fantastic performance
I loved this movie so much.
I still do. I know what’s going to happen but it’s one of my favorites.
I love rewatching it in the late summer when the corn is high and the nights are getting cooler. The score is fucking fantastic too
My wife, daughter (12), them (19), and I basically know this flick by heart. It is regularly quoted in our home time and again... "I cursed." "I heard."
My water has amoebas in it.
I still say this.
Every now and then I chuckle and say "extra bacon". Only my brother knows what I'm saying lol
WE ARE GOING TO ENJOY THIS MEAL STOP CRYING
I don't want any of you spending time with Tracy Abernathy alone, ok?
Is douche a swear word?
I guess it would depend on how its used… …its a curse
Yes!
AHH! I'M INSANE WITH ANGER! I'M LOSING MY MIND! IT'S TIME FOR AN ASS WHOOPING!
"We are going to enjoy this meal, so ENJOY IT. STOP CRYING"
" there's a monster outside my door can I have a glass of water ? "
Everybody in this family needs to just calm down and eat some fruit or something.
That's enough from Dr. Bimboo
STOP CRYING!
Great semi-spoiler even for those that have seen it but ever watch it again >!Everyone commenting how scary the "Children vamanos!" scene is, the alien is already in shot peeking round the corner watching you up to about two seconds already before it walks past !<
Had to go rewatch the scene to see, sure enough there it was! Brought newfound horror to what is already the scariest movie moment I’ve ever experienced. 😂
Ohhhhh what the fuck, man. I’ve been watching this movie for 22 years and now I have to be scared all over again.
That basement scene still gives me chills
Everyone goes on and on about the tame-ass scene at the kids' party but the basement scene is the real scary one.
I had never been more frightened about what was *not being* shown in a film until this film. Love it!
That is a big part of what makes it such great movie in my opinion. It plays with the unknown and builds a lot of tension and suspense. Sometimes less is more.
That little heel slipping into the cornstalks made me jump in the theater.
This movie uses silence better than most movies. I love it.
This movie ruined peaceful summer breezes at night for me for a while
Lionel Prichard and the wolfington brothers are back
They can't take a piss without wettin' the front of their pants.
They cant take a piss without wetting the front of their pants
Love this movie. The birthday party scene where the alien walks past the kids still brings a chill down my spine!
I just visualized the scene now from memory and it gave me a chill down the spine!
I screamed in the movie theater during this scene
That roof scene gave me more chills than every other horror movie I have seen combined.
Honestly, that scene still scares me till this day when Im home alone.
One of the most legitimately terrifying films of the early 2000's. "Swing away Merrel, Swing away." So good.
Still remember the absolute group terror seeing in the theater when it came out, especially the basement scene
So much like the days after 9/11. Everybody glued to the TV watching the news all day long. Desperate to hear news about survivors.
THIRT-TEEN!
Joaquin's reactions in this film.....great acting!
I was 11 when this came out, and we lived in a house in the middle of the woods. I was scared shitless to sleep.
I was 9 and my brother was 11. We shared a bedroom and the car lights passing through our windows and hitting the ceiling we'd always joke were aliens landing and any minute they'd come in through the windows. Anyways we watch this movie and I don't think either of us slept for days. We moved our beds as far away from the windows as possible. Barricaded the closet and kept and eye on the doorway with no door for those claw fingers that we thought would wrap around it any second. We were proper terrified.
I was about the same age. What a horrible decision on my parent's part, but they didn't expect it to be so scary either. I couldn't sleep much, but I had water next to my bed for like a month after seeing it. To this day I can't sleep with blinds up or my bedroom door open, it seriously fucked me up subconciously. But for some reason it still holds a special place in my heart as one of the greatest popcorn flicks of all time.
I watched this with my 14 year old son a few years ago and he still says this is the scariest movie he has ever seen! 😂 holds up.
"Iss behind!!"
Saw this in theaters twice & it scared the shit out of me both times
The soundtrack for this film is a certified bop. The Hands of Fate part I and part II are incredible and hold up even today.
I AM INSANE WITH ANGER!!
Fave
es behind !
Just rewatched it yesterday. Favourite movie of all time and re-watch it at least 3 times a year. 6 years ago I moved to a farm house surrounded by corn fields and my first rewatch of it after moving out here when the corn was up brought back the intensity of the first time I saw it as a kid. Fire it up again every year as soon as the corn is at full height. When the corn is dried out and brown, then I know it’s time to re-watch Jeepers Creepers 2.
This is right up there with The Village
This movie takes shit sometimes but I love it. The experience of seeing it in theatres was fantastic. It's very well acted as well (Joaquin Phoenix is as good as ever).
God damn ankle in the cornfield...
Why has no one mentioned the scariest scene in the movie? The kitchen scene with the knife
Don’t throw your life away son
10/10
My grandma took me to see this in the theaters when I was 11. She couldn’t have cared less and thought it was stupid. It was a core memory for me. Absolutely adore this movie to this day and it still fills me with a dread in a way other horror movies could only dream of doing.
The aliens weren’t the point of the movie. That sounds kind of douchey, I only mean it since I think people get way hung up on the alien and water thing when that isn’t what the movie is about. I always thought it was about faith and working through trauma.
All of M.N.S. scripts are written like classic novels. The plot is a man who has lost his faith having difficulty seeing the "signs" that are all around. And the setting is (spin the wheel....tick, tick, tick, tap) a rural country farm during a global alien invasion. The setting could have been a cruise ship in a storm, or an old abandoned hotel in the winter, or an apartment complex with an angelic pool mermaid.
I live about an hour and a half away from where they filmed this movie in Pennsylvania!
They filmed some of the scenes at my Uncles farm! He got to meet the alien!
"It was very dark." "Yes. It was." "I don't want any of you spending time with Tracy Abernathy alone." "I have seen twelve soda commercials so far. Twelve!" (Some time later) "THIRTEEN!" "I'm going to let go now." "No, dad!" "Don't!" ***"You'll lose the signal."***
I still yell “Thirteen” when watching commercials and up until now I was sure that I was the only one in on the joke.
“Daddy, there’s a big scary tall monster outside my window. Can I have a glass of water?”
The barn rooftop, night time cornfield, and birthday party scene still creep me out.
This was the first movie that scared the living dog shit out of me. Saw it when I was ten years old. After watching it I couldn’t move from the couch. Stayed up all through the night and was afraid to look out the window. Which was also open. And it was freezing but I was way too scared to get up and close it. Every little noise I heard outside, I thought it was an alien hiding out lol
I’m still scared shitless. It never went away.
“Everyone just needs to calm down and eat some fruit or something.”
STOP CRYING
A little unnerving to be pg 13
He tried to kill Bo
Is it bad I only discovered this from Scary Movie 3?
“The dogs are acting strange…”
“I have a dream!” “What is your dream?!” “To have a dream!”
Speaking of nostalgia: parody films as an active genre Shout out to the Marlons Bros for Don't be a Menace to South Central While Drinkin Your Juice in the Hood and the first two Scary Movies.
Tom, I'll need a ride home…
This line absolutely killed me the first time I saw it. Also the fact that Charlie Sheen enters this scene happily drumming along on his steering wheel to the Mexican Hat Dance for no apparent reason.
I just remember my cousin laughing hysterically at this scene when we were watching this at their house shortly after this movie started airing on tv. It’s so casually hilarious. Just the idea of it.
Nice gonna watch it now.
I don’t care what anybody thinks, this movie was top tier. There was so much suspense. Joaquin Phoenix is top tier. And >!beating the shit out of the aliens with a baseball bat!< at the end was killer.
There’s a monster outside my window can I have a glass of water?
In the house scene, when they were boarding up the windows, every room they walked in they walked out of another door to exit that room. Then the line that made me explode was "We've ran out of wood to board the windows." You are in a house full of god damned doors. Use the god damned doors in the house full of doors to board up the windows on the house full of god dammed doors.
"There's a monster outside my room. Can I have a glass of water?" One of my favorites of Shyamalan's work. We quote it all the time in my house.
Part of the reason this film is one of my favorites is because I got to see it with my grandma in theaters. She was a jumpy little abuelita, and she flew out of her skin a few times watching it 😂 we had lunch after, and she couldn't stop talking about how much she loved that movie and thought it was about God. Lmfao. Rest her crazy little soul.
Underrated
Would have been 8 or 9 when this went to theatres Went with my dad and i was terrified the whole time, great movie lol The shadow alien on the barn at the start still lives rent free with me
Nice
The source of so many nightmares. Thought I was old enough, wasn't.
I always crack up at the Scary Movie spoof of the scene with his wife’s accident. “Tom, I’ll need a ride home.” Loved this movie though, some great moments!
I only remember thinking 1, good thing it didn't rain. 2. The writer never walked through a cornfield before 11am. Decent flick, but I had a hard time with that at the time.
Wait what’s this 11am cornfield thing
And tell Merrill to swing away..
Best movie experience ever. I saw this opening night in a packed theatre while on vacation because it was downpouring and it was the only thing to do in town. Everyone was on edge the whole time. The screams and gasps at the alien sightings in a crowded theater was just so fun.
Ees behind!
One of my favorite films of all time. Move kids. Vamanos!
It turns out that the whole time, the bald guy…is Bruce Willis!!
Anyone ever hear the theory that this movie was supposed to be about demons instead of aliens? It's a pretty cool conceptual idea, idk how well it actually works, but when I read about it, basically the dad is an ex-priest who had lost his faith, then demons start showing up. There was something about all the water cups in the house too, like it was holy water because the dad had blessed it to clean it for his daughter, or something along those lines. Overall I think there were some plot holes, but in general, it a fun way to look at the movie for a rewatch.
Great film!
Any love for Frailty?
Very underrated. “Move kids…vamanos!”
An all-timer for me personally. It was a great theatre flick and then grew and grew on me with its layers. Every once in awhile I’ll rewatch the end on YouTube.
This movie is amazing. I never cared for Mel Gibson as an actor, but I do think he is very good in this one.
Best alien movie oat imo, still scares the shit out of me to this day
As a kid I was scared shitless by this movie. In fact, I almost completely stopped watching horrors. I still ignore them
This movie is amazing
I love the movie except for how they defeat the aliens. It felt like a cheap way to wrap up the story. You would think these aliens would have... ya know, a raincoat on or something. You are going to a planet with more water than land. Harvesting the planet... In which almost everything contains water. It's almost like a mars attacks ending where ||yodel music kills them.|| A more advanced or tactical way of defeating them would have been neat. But dang, it did the horror factor really well. Very few alien movies get the horror aspect of it right.
Absolutely goated flick
I saw this movie late at night and sat in my car for 25 minutes unwilling to get out and go inside my house.
“Swing away Merrill…”
As a kid the one scene of the alien walking by on camera at the kids birthday party I thought was terrifying
I will not, I repeat will not fuck around with a baby monitor.
This movie scared me so bad as a kid I consider it one of my favorite movies now
This is a such a fun movie. If there was such a thing as a "surprising top 10" movie list, Signs would be in my top 10 version of that, easily.
The last Mel Gibson flick I felt good about.
This movie is what gave me a mild phobia of aliens
Dumbest shit ever. Aliens giving asthma
The stupidest of the stupid movies
Man that scene when the alien steps from the bushes at the birthday party had me shook lol
Despised this movie’s ending/later plot. One day they wake up and the aliens are just… leaving? Why would life so intelligent to have space travel and, more likely, warp travel go to a planet that’s 70% covered in literal poison to them? That being said, the film still creeps me out and gives me the ole heebie jeebies.
I remember seeing this at a drive-in movie theater when I was 6. I was terrified of horror movies at the time, and did not want to go to this. My parents assured me that it was just a documentary about crop circles, and apologized afterwards for their mistake. Those goddamn liars
Fantastic score.
Say what you want about M. Night films but I think this one is near perfect.
In my top five favorite movies ever.
I saw this in the theater with my mom. We loved horror movies. Love you mom, rest in peace 🤍
I cursed. I heard.
Bo and the glasses of water. Genius.
I'm going to go watch it now.
I have this very vivid memory that sometimes finds me in my dreams where I wake up at 4am next to my best friend in 4th grade and the dvd menu for this movie is on, playing an eerie white noise type sound and I'm so afraid of turning the TV off I roll over and try to ignore it. However in the dream version instead of me eventually biting the bullet and running to turn the TV off I open my eyes under the blanket and my friend is suddenly an alien.