Day 30: The Sixth Sense

30, The Sixth Sense (1999)
Dir: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams

Inspired strangely enough by an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, this film shot it's young director M. Night Shyamalan from a nobody to the talk of the town in the late 90s and early 2000s. Going in with only a few light dramas under his belt, M. Night put his heart and soul into his next script and had no problem selling it to Buena Vista Pictures, a division of Disney. Noted for it's low key suspense and most of all it's shocking ending, The Sixth Sense became one of the most memorable horror movies of the 90s, maybe even the numero uno horror movie of that decade.

The Sixth Sense introduces us to award winning child psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) who after a violent encounter with a former patient, begins to help a young disturbed child named Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) who can see dead people. From there the film takes you on a constantly uneasy path of spooky sequences with plenty of dark, twisting turns.

The acting on everyone's end is quite impressive, which even lead to an Oscar nomination for Haley Joel Osment. As a matter of fact the character's are probably the driving force of this atmospheric thriller and that makes the film work as a hard hitting drama as well.



I'm gonna keep it brief here as these posts have really started to take a toll on me, see ya all around... Though I hope I don't see any dead people.

Fright Fact: The entire film was filmed in sequence.

Horror Highlight; You know that seen where the little girl played by Mischa Barton freaks out Haley Joel Osment? That was awesome but I couldn't find a clip.