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Second,

It has been two days since I’ve seen Signs…. Now, you have to understand, there are very very few movies that actually scare me. There are a few movies that disturb me… Three days ago, the top movie that disturbed me was Arachnaphobia. Below that were movies like Blair Witch. Movies that messed with your mind, but with no real graphic violence. Graphic violence does not disturb me, and probably helps movies… the more graphic it is, the more I detach it from real life. And then came Signs.

I found this movie to be truly freaky and frightening. Now, I laugh at myself for getting scared about irrational things, but that doesn’t change the fact that hair on the back of my neck stood on end and I found myself only slightly less than running when the street light went out at brian’s and I had to walk to my car in lots of darkness. Sure I laugh at myself, but it didn’t change the fact that I had the same feeling while trying to go to sleep watching shadows dance on my wall…

All that being said, I have two more things to say. One, if you haven’t seen this movie, go see it, but take someone with you, and if you’re particularly susceptible to mind games, go see a matinee during the day… Two, I was, and continue to be impressed with how well that movie was put together. A very long round of applause for M. Night Shyamalan. He’s a young director/writer/producer (is there anything this guy doesn’t do?), and his movies continue to impress me. I just don’t know if this movie would have had the same effect if someone other than the person who envisioned it all tried to direct it or anything else… If it takes him doing it all to create that kind of effect, then, hey… go for it… I wonder what he’s got up his sleeve for the next movie…

also, a funny story… last night, playing cards with brian and his family… We’re all downstairs and a door slams shut upstairs…. brian and I looked at each other and he said “you know, after watching Signs…. that scares me….” yup, I think that pretty much sums it up :)

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