Peele cited Signs among the film's main inspirations, with King Kong, The Wizard of Oz, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jurassic Park.
Film· 2002· Science Fiction
Signs
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M. Night Shyamalan has said Signs began as "an end-of-the-world movie, à la Night of the Living Dead, where it's from the perspective of a house": a family boarding up the windows against something trying to get in.
Shyamalan's opening titles for Signs deliberately echo Saul Bass's for Psycho, with Bernard Herrmann-like strings, and the film builds its suspense in Hitchcock's manner, from what is withheld.