Having seen the film several times over the years, the famous twist in the tail of M. Night Shyamalan‘s The Sixth Sense is no longer much of a twist at all for me, but this 1999 psychological thriller is still good entertainment. A child psychologist , Dr Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), is shot by a patient he has treated for hallucinations. Crowe goes on to treat another similarly-afflicted boy, Cole Sear (played by Haley Joel Osment). Crowe gradually realises that the boy is not delusional but can truly see ‘dead people’ – ghosts. At the same time, the work-obsessed Crowe fears that his marriage is suffering. The twist is that Crowe himself is dead. Clever editing sustains the illusion that the dead Crowe is interacting with his widow and his environment, but the only person he truly interacts with is the boy. I forget who it was who advised all actors to avoid appearing alongside children and animals. Willis more than holds his own but, after several viewings, the star of this show is undoubtedly Haley Joel Osment. Surely the ancestor of this type of story is Edgar Allan Poe’s The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether, but I’d better not give away two endings…