Signs (UK)
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The first sign you can`t explain. The second sign you can`t ignore. The third sign you won`t believe
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 102 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
From M. Night Shyamalan, the gifted writer/director of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable comes the story of the Hess family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania who wake up one morning to find a 500 foot crop circle in their backyard. Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his family are told extra-terrestrials are responsible for the sign in their field. They watch, with growing dread, at the news of crop circles being found all over the world. Signs is the emotional story of one family on one farm as they encounter the terrifying last moments of life as the world is being invaded. Get ready for a close encounter of the scared kind...
Special Features:
`Looking For Signs` DVD screenwriting diary (6 mins)
`Building Signs` storyboard featurette (8 mins)
`Making Signs` audio commentary from director and crew (22 mins)
`The Effects of Signs` (8 mins)
`Signs: The Music` featurette on composer James Newton Howard (8 mins)
`Full Circle` finishing the film featurette (4 mins)
Deleted scenes
Storyboards. M. Night Shyamalan`s first alien movie
Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1
Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
DTS 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Russian
Subtitle Tracks:
Icelandic
Swedish
Finnish
English
CC: English
Dutch
Russian
Danish
Norwegian
Directed By:
M. Night Shyamalan
Written By:
M. Night Shyamalan
Starring:
M. Night Shyamalan
Cherry Jones
Abigail Breslin
Rory Culkin
Joaquin Phoenix
Mel Gibson
Casting By:
Douglas Aibel
Soundtrack By:
James Newton Howard
Director of Photography:
Tak Fujimoto
Editor:
Barbara Tulliver
Production Designer:
Larry Fulton
Producer:
M. Night Shyamalan
Sam Mercer
Frank Marshall
Executive Producer:
Jose L. Rodriguez
Kathleen Kennedy
Distributor:
Buena Vista
Your Opinions and Comments
I read a lot of bad press about this movie, and sort of got it on a bit of a whim (It was this or Road to Perdition) It starts, and it`s a bit Hitchcock isn`t it, with those titles. And it continues in this sort of vein, albeit with some CGI. I felt it was actually one of the scarier films I have seen in my life. There`s no gore, no real violence, but it is incredibly tense. The jumpiest part was the bit with the home video footage. Jumped out of my seat there. It is also the directors funniest film, with the bit in the town quite humorous. the acting is good, apart from the directors cameo, but gibson and phoenix are great even if the acting technique of the lead in shyamalans movies are all similar. Maybe we should break with the kids thing next time, and I do hate to see the old Hollywood cliche of the single father family, but this one worked.
VIDEO
A modern movie, so good, clean print, nothing wrong at all
AUDIO
A nice DTS track for the UK, and the sound is nice and booming, although those start credits were a bit too loud. Good, and scary
EXTRAS
A good selection, and on one disc this time. Still no commentary, but a good making of one very good deleted scene amongst some average others, and a childhood movie again.
OVERALL
A nice take on the alien invason genre, and deserving of it`s gross it took. Maybe won`t stand up to repeat viewings, but a good one to rent or borrow off someone.
Not much wrong with presentation here though...