However, I must say that "The Signs" looked low budget. Like it was filmed for $25,000 in my back yard.
I saw "The Sixth Sense", "Unbreakable" (extremely underrated IMHO) and "Signs". There is some a comfort in with familiarty with a locaation, I grew up and live in South Cental Jersey which left more of a Pennsylvania imprint rather than a New York imprimt. That familiarity also provides the likelihood factor, the "it can happen here" neck hair raising response.