1999 · horror · thriller
The Sixth Sense
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan1h 47m1999
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
Our read: The Sixth Sense (1999) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive horror · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- measured
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