Shyamalan, 1 Spielberg, 0

Rating: 8/10 (28 May 2014)

M. Night Shyamalan's Signs feels like a loose retelling of H. G. Well's War of the Worlds because there's something ubiquitous on Earth the pointy, clicking little acrobats can't abide.
If that's true, then Signs is a vastly superior--and very, very scary-- version of Well's work. This movie elicited such dread from me that I had to shut off the tape repeatedly and take a breather. It's that good.
Compared to Spielberg's 2005 version, Signs looks even better. Spielberg managed to turn his work into a overblown, episodic, and ultimately very frustrating movie that only scared me when I got to see his aliens (and that was too damn little face time for me!).
I think Signs was one of the few horror movies I've seen in anything like recent history that makes me shiver when I think of it--and I saw it in the summer of 2007!
That's staying power.