FIRST TIME WATCHING: The Sixth Sense (1999) REACTION (Movie Commentary) 

As someone who knew the twist going in (mainly because it’s so iconic that you can’t go anywhere without it being mentioned), I’ve got to say that it’s still extremely effective. The movie still holds up 20+ years later

You weren’t supposed to get it. You were supposed to be completely surprised by the twist at the end. Back then, people were SERIOUS about spoiling this one. Like everyone would destroy you if you ruined it for someone else. It was one of the best surprise endings ever. I’m kinda mad you figured it out. 😫😁

Imagine being a kid and the ghost of Bruce Willis starts chasing you yelling something about you missing an appointment with him. Bro I'd be running to the church as well

The fact that Vincent (the naked guy who killed him) was played by Donnie Walhburg shocked the crap out of me!!! He's unrecognizable!

Haley Joel Osment was probably the best child actor ever. His depth, range, and subtlety were way beyond his years. He was a really cute kid, too...now he just looks like Al Borland from Home Improvement.

Unfortunately that was most likely the real mom that was making her daughter sick. There's a syndrome called Munchausen by Proxy where usually the mother makes their child sick to the point that they're in and out of hospitals and they keep them that way so they can get attention.

This kid is the best. He was in "Forest Gump and "A.I."

The marketing was a double-edged sword b/c though it led to a great box office return, I think the plot twist would've been better protected if the "I see dead people" line was kept secret. The first act of the film hadn't really revealed the nature of Cole's abilities until he said it.

It's funny you noticed the red door knob in Malcolm's house. I remember hearing that Shyamalan used the color red in several scenes to highlight significant 'moods'. Like the red balloon floating near the little room at the top of the stairs when Cole was locked in at the b'day party. And the red shawl/blanket that Malcolm's wife is wrapped in when she is sleeping.

I remember seeing this in the theater.......maybe a week or two AFTER it had been released. People were cool & managed to keep the secret of the surprise twist. I don't know if that would even be possible nowadays.

Bruce Willis was actually int his by accident. He had a movie fall through and he and Disney came to an agreement of 2 movies for a discounted rate. Bruce himself said he read the script and didn't know his character was dead until the last 3 pages. And that's what sold him on the movie. He thought if we can pull if off it will be a hit.

Best acting by Haley Joel Osmond ! He’s phenomenal!

I was lucky enough to watch this on its opening night in 1999, at The Metreon here in San Francisco. It feels like a lifetime ago...

"Is lying like a family bonding exercise for them?" LMAOOOO. XD

Cole is like a lawyer for the dead people, everyone's heard of him.

I always forget until Malcolm finds the gunshot wound in the final scene that Cole must see him with the wound at all times. No wonder Cole was able to clock him from the start.

The thought in the paranormal investigation field is that ghosts need energy to manifest or interact with the physical word and so they they drain the warmth (thermal energy) from an area, thus making the area cold.

I just realized for the first time, the kid has the same grey patch in his hair as the grown patient did, that shot Bruce Willis

19:06 "What’s in the box? What’s in the f*cking box?" -- Mills, "Se7en" (1995)

24:31 the reason the movie is so slow is to make the last scene a great plot twist. barely anyone who first watches the movie knows malcom is dead until the last scene. congratulations u are the only person i know of that actually figured it out earlier

Spirit activity often coincides with cold spots because the spirits draw energy from their surroundings (often times in the form of heat) to manifest.

M. Night Shamaliyn was the doctor in the hospital scene, he places himself in most of his movies. Sixth Sense Signs The Village 3 of his great works in film by far

3:10 oh no. Not just after he got that award man! I LOL’d after hearing you say they give awards for everything a minute earlier. 🤣

Awesome. I highly recommend you react to "the others".

I would recommend "The Others" too, you'll like that film too

It's cold when the ghosts are around because ghosts need energy to manifest themselves. The easiest energy to have access to is heat. I saw this in a theatre when it first came out and figured out the twist about the same time you did. I remember watching the restaurant scene and thinking to myself "This is weird how she is reacting to him. She's acting like he isn't even there." and then the I see dead people scene made it click to me. The thing is the giveaway that put it together for me wasn't the I see dead people part. It was the they don't know they are dead part of the line that made the light bulb click on in my head.

Amazed to see someone reacting to this movie and figuring out the twist before the majority of people did. The rest of us were shocked. ;-)

The other big movie with this sweet young and great talented boy Haley Joel Osment is „pay it forward“ (2000). Co stars Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt. Wonderful story!!

This film came out pre-internet, pre-streaming services, which of course made it a lot easier to keep the plot twist a secret before its box-office release. It was a huge-box office performer as many people returned to watch it multiple times to analyze the clues, but also to experience the twist with a new audience. I think I went back with friends at least three different times! As you can imagine, this made M. Night Shyamalan a star filmmaker overnight!

That scene in the car with his mom got her a Oscar for that performance!

Unbreakable, Split, and Glass make up a fun M. Night Shyamalan trilogy.

He’s like a beacon, spirits are drawn to him because they know he has the ability to help them

I saw this opening weekend and when Bruce learned he's dead you could literally hear everyone's jaw hit the floor. I guess we were a little slower back then.

Did you notice the cameo with M. Night Shyamalan? He was the doctor. If you like horror/suspence movies, you may like another Shyamalan film; Signs. It's not as popular as The Sixth Sense, but is worth watching. It stars Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix. And..., Shyamalan has a cameo in this one too.

The twist halfway through was realizing that you already knew the twist.

Definitely check out Shyamalan's Unbreakable trilogy. Unbreakable, Split, and Glass. The Village is also very atmospheric. Some people may not enjoy Shyamalan's style, but I love that he can get great performances out of actors even in movies with wild premises, like Lady In The Water.

Haley Joel Osment had a recurring role for a brief time on Silicon Valley as a chubby neckbeard and was hilarious. Totally crazy realizing it was him.

Congrats on figuring out the twist early. I saw this in the theater when it came out and didn’t see it coming. But when you rewatch, the clues are definitely there.

Man I forgot this the lady from hereditary.

The year this came out, Haley Joel Osment was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, it was also the year of The Green Mile, and Michael Clarke Duncan was also nominated. Well, Michael Caine ended up winning the award, but he spent most of his speech praising the other nominees, it was one of the classiest moves I've ever seen an Oscar winner make. You can watch it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CuhXv2wBeiQ.html

In the official commentary, Shamalyan stated that they were extremely worried that the "I see dead people" scene was going yo give away the twist far too early. They wanted to hint at it, but didn't want to give it away. Luckily, the majority of viewers did not catch on. Of course, there are always exceptions.

This horror film classic came out when I was in high school. For a long time, when I would watch this movie over and over again on VHS (those were the days), I knew that the little girl throwing up in the tent scene was coming, and it still scared the crap out of me.

People with this ability are spirit magnets

Love this movie so much. Congrats on figuring out the twist so early on! I don't think the audience is meant to catch on to it until the end, but there are tons of clues planted throughout the film. Some people pick up on them but most seem to get so caught up in the story that they don't figure it out until Malcolm does. Back when the movie first came out, one reviewer mentioned there was a great twist at the end but didn't say what it was. I did know that Cole could see "dead people" so I thought, "If I were writing this movie and wanted a cool twist at the end, what would it be?" When I actually saw the movie, I found out I was right. Tragically, the woman who murdered the little girl was indeed her mother. This was a case of a rare psychological/behavioral disorder known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSP). That's when a caregiver (often a mother) wants attention and goes after it by seeking medical help for the person in their care. They'll insist the child/person is ill and will do things like lying about symptoms (that don't really exist), doing something to alter or affect test results, and falsifying medical records. People usually don't suspect them because they generally appear to be extremely loving and distraught over the "illness." But they will sometimes go so far as to cause actual physical harm to induce symptoms. In this case, the mother was poisoning her daughter to make her vomit, etc., and she did it so frequently that her daughter actually died. We know from a line in the movie that the remaining daughter was now having similar symptoms. If Cole hadn't helped expose the mother, that little girl would have also eventually died.

You definitely went into this knowing the reveal, nobody clocked on as quick as you did

You are one of the only people I've seen who guessed the twist. This was amazing to watch in the theaters. Everyone's jaws dropped at the ending.

The reason they sought out the little boy was because he was their conduit to the living world to resolve whatever was "keeping them here". BTW, if you think back over the movie, anytime you saw the color red, that was supposed to signify death: the doorknob, the dead girl's mom's dress, the tent, etc. Also, that was M. Night playing the ER doc in the movie. And, kudos on getting that Bruce was a ghost - 98% don't guess that! * If you haven't seen "The Green Mile", it is a MUST! You WILL NOT be disappointed!!

M.Night Shyamalan is one of my top 5 favorite directors, We are from the same area in the suburbs of Philly, I love the fact all his movies are done here. check out "Unbreakable", "Split "and "Glass" . (In that order) Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson and James McAvoy are incredible..He also wrote and produced a movie called "Devil" takes place in an elevator in a Philly office tower good scary mystery/horror.

This is one of those movies that make you watch it twice. After watching it that first time, you have to watch it again to see how the twist fits in the movie That one twist at the end changes the whole movie without fundamentally breaking it

I remember seeing this at the cinema with my mum , and figuring out that Bruce was dead really early in the film , and then when he realized he was dead, and this murmur of surprise went through the cinema. I was shocked that so many people were surprised , my mum and I had a little chuckle, because I had whispered my theory to her when I figured it out .

Spirits are attracted to mediums and psychics. Since they are the only ones who can usually see a spirit. For many spirits there kind of like riddles. Figure out the riddle, you can figure out how to help. Also it gets cold because it’s the entity, the entity takes in heat, energy. Bad ghosts or hostile ones are hard to help. But experienced mediums who work together usually have very little trouble with one. I’m a spiritualist 😂

Most people were shocked by the twist. Thought she was mad because he was spending so much time with his patients (Cole). And he missed their anniversary dinner. When he got there all he talked about was his patient. There was a gap from the shot to his full recovery because it wasn't necessary to the story. Great movie. I didn't see it in the theatre so I re-watched it immediately afterward.

The spanish part says: "Save me, Lord... Please, save me... I don't wanna die..."

Haley Joel Osmond was also great in A.I. u should react to that next.

You are the only person I’ve ever seen who knew he was dead. Everyone, including me, were shocked at the ending!!

I really wish American reviewers would draw more attention to the opening credits and the composer of the film. In this case, James Newton Howard. It is such a sad and powerful score. It really sets the tone for the film. Listen to some of the best, classic composers: Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams. IMDB them, and think about how much more powerful they make the film. Film music is an underappreciated medium.

I saw this film with my parents in the theaters and had one of the most shocking twist endings in film history, back when M.Night Shymalan made good movies, instead he made nonsensical cash grabs.

Stir of Echoes, a movie with a similar theme that, unfortunately, was released at around the same time, was also excellent. It starred Kevin Bacon and was filmed in Chicago.

I suspect Cole knew Malcolm was a ghost. If you recall in their last conversation, call advised him to speak to his wife while she was asleep as she would be able to hear him then.

Bruce Willis ♥️!! Him saying “Good bye sweetheart heart “ makes me cry every time.

You should see Haley Joel Osment in Second Hand Lions with Robert Duvall and Michael Caine.

You may watch Unbreakable, if you've haven't yet.

One of my favorite childhood movies of all times. I'll probably rewatch it as an adult now someday

I was GOBSMACKED in the theater when the twist came...I even said "Oh my God" kind of loudly... lol. The thing that is so genius about this movie is that once y😢ou get the twist, you want to go back and see it right away. I think I saw three times in the theater.

M. Night Shyamalan wrote this movie, he always makes an appearance in most all of his movies, this one and these are a partial list, The Sixth Sense, TheVillage, Signs, Unbreakable, and many, many more.

That's Donnie Wahlberg in the tighty whities.

Dope that you got the twist early on! I will say that I was a bit disappointed that you got it and didn't experience that "WTF" moment we all did way back in 99-00 when this came out. In any case, about your question of spirits and the cold: Have you ever been in a situation when you could feel the "energy" of a room? I mean, either the excitement of the place or even the tension? That's real bro. Energy is real. And because ghosts and spirits exist in a higher plane than this 3rd dimension we live on, they have to manifest themselves here by drawing energy from this plane. Think of it as water condensing on a mirror. When enough of the energy (heat) is drawn out, they can manifest. Your phone has technology on it that can detect spirits (or any energy disruption) through the electromagnetic components. There are apps that you can download to detect EMF (electromagnetic fields) and show when the energy of a place is being shifted or fluctuating--i.e., energy disturbances, possibly even ghosts or spirits. Muhahahahaha

You smarter than me. When I first saw this movie 20+ years ago I never suspected Malcom was actually dead. The twist at the end absolutely floored me.

It gets cold when spirits are around because it takes so much energy for them to manifest. Heat is energy and they draw it out of the air when they are around

Shyamalan got better with "Unbreakable" and especially "Signs", but still a decent supernatural drama. And another fine reaction by you. A+

React to Train to Busan or The Raid. Both are great movies.

Great reaction, as always, thank you! This is one of the movies I cannot not watch till the end whenever I catch it on TV. Cole's classmate who locks him into the pantry is the kid from Jurassic Park III, maybe that's why he looked familiar

Her mum was putting Pine Sol in her food. It's a disinfectant. villains.fandom.com/wiki/Mrs._Collins

Oh man !...you weren't supposed to get the twist so early !!..lol... This was a great film...now you need a t-shirt that says.. I hope I don't see dead people...😄... Great reaction Greg...🌿🌿🌿

The ghosts come to Cole because people who have the gift give off a kind of light that attracts them like a moth to a flame.

Dude, now you have to go back and watch this movie again- and pay Extra attention to everything that Is Red. It’s a sure warning sign .

Great and smart reaction, man. Watch it again and notice the red color throughout when the "dead people" appear.

I said before watching that if there's one person who will figure it out before the reveal it's this guy. Boom. Have yet to see anyone figure it out so props to the Caped Informer!

YOu caught on that he was dead the whole time way way too quickly. Frankly, most people didn't get it till the twist reveal when this was in theaters. It was a big twist back then and became a huge meme. "I see dead people" that is.

If only that kid could see into the future, too. M. Night's career would follow him around for eternity.

So the scene when Bruce Willis is sitting on the bench was right behind my house in Philly. It’s called St. Albans Court. The church where the boy runs into was right in front of my house on Fitzwater and Graysferry, but the inside of the church was actually another church in Society Hill. Great movie though. Perhaps the only great movie M. Night made.

I watched this in theaters when I was 12. Shalamayan started his career with a bang but kind of lost his hand in his next movies. I think the success kind of got into his head, and he was kind of a prussioner of his next movies all having a twist ending.

1. I recently saw a clip of Haley Joel Osment (yes he play Forrest Gump Jr.) as an adult. Still has the same face and was easy to recognize. 2. I got it when his wife was celebrating/mourning their anniversary with only one table placement. That and Cole is the only person he interacts with. I was waiting for my (now ex) wife to finger it out but she didn't get it until the reveil. I didn't say anything to mess it up for her. 3, You caught on relatively early. 4. Malcolm couldn't pass over until he saved Cole because he failed Vincent.

I was born the same year this movie was made Feb 26, 1999 7 months before and the sixth sense is in my top 5 favorite thriller movies I connect to this movie because I am a sensitive and can see ghost sometimes too but if I try to ignore it I get really bad migraine headaches

Never seen anybody figure out the twist so early. Damn!

Great job figuring it out! The movie is designed to bring you to the brink of figuring out what's going on, but then to distract you before you quite form the thought.

You are probably the first person ever, in the history of Earth, to realize that Malcolm was dead before the reveal.

This child actor is insane, the best role I think he's ever done is in Pay It Forward. I would recommend this film to everyone, it's incredibly moving.

You are the 1st reactor I've seen who has stated (though you seem to double back) that this is not a horror film. And it's not a horror film. Shyamalan (did you recognize him playing the doctor who reported the mom?) makes spiritual, very human movies. He just clothes them in a borrowed genre. But the richly-emotional human story is present from 1st frame to last. I keep going back to Rod Serling, who addressed a lot of political, social, and psychological issues using irrelevant genres. Crime stories, westerns, modern & Civil war, the cultural mysticism of Appalachia, 'modern' witchcraft, time travel, space travel, aliens, Cold War motifs, post-apocalypses... Serling told all-too-human stories against borrowed genres. They called him a scifi writer, but he didn't always write in scifi. Shyamalan has been given the reputation of jumping genres and using the gimmick of the unexpected 'twist'. But for Serling and Shyamalan both they are misunderstood. Sixth Sense is not a 'ghost' movie. Signs is not an 'alien invasion' movie. Unbreakable is not a 'superhero' movie. Those genres are costuming over very deep and very real stories. The 'twist' is another illusion, born of the viewer applying expectations and preconceptions to what's being watched. Their own preconceptions set them up, blinding them to what is not spotlighted but also not hidden either. You were the 1st I've seen to begin to get past seeing what you expected to see. We're all ghost-like in that we see what we want until something firm and inarguable stops us. But if we listen and ignore our expectations, we see more clearly. You managed that more than anyone one else I've seen go through this film (including me). But don't get lulled in by the apparent genre in Shyamalan movies. Look deeper and enjoy how he uses the genre as a tool, not a defining boundary.

Most don't get the plot twist that soon. Well done. But it's still nice to see the film still affected you emotionally at the end even though you figured it out. That shows how good it is, you can still enjoy it even when you pick up on all the clues.

If you liked Haley Joel Osment's performance in this, you should try watching "AI- Artificial intelligence."

10:42, guess who??? I'll give you a hint, he's like Alfred Hitchcock but he gave himself bigger cameos. The kid was played by the young Forrest Gump before he became Tom Hanks, as well. The next 2 movies to watch are M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable and Signs with Mel Gibson. Yes, guess who is in both too. Wait, when did you realise about Bruce Willis's character???? First you seemed not to know, then you did. You edited out your own reaction???

When the dead know someone can see or hear them they will continue to try and pass a message or they may not know they’re dead.

My favorite SPOOF line.." I see White People " lol

this movie traumatized me as a kid and still to this day sometimes lol

It's definitely a great twist and you weren't supposed to get it, but it's awesome that you did. As great as this movie is and its twist the movie had to break its own rules in order to set up the twist. All of the ghosts that came to Cole aside from Bruce Willis had their injuries/cause of death on full display, also none of the other ghosts engaged in back and forth conversations with Cole the same way Bruce's character did if you do a rewatch notice that the other ghosts make specific statements which if you listen when the little girl's father plays the tape the ghost girl is actually repeating what she said in that tape "I'm feeling much better now." But the main thing they did to break the rules to set up the twist is that when all the other ghosts are around it's very cold, so cold you can see Cole's breath even in doors, but any time he's around Bruce's character he never has the cold breath, his wife never does either except for at the end when Bruce realizes that he's been dead the entire time. It's still a great movie and I enjoy watching it every time I do, definitely one of M. NIght's best works before his name became synonymous with bad movies and worst plot twists.

Signs and The Village are very good too.

You just been Sixth Sense'd. 😂 Can I recommend... Village of the Damned 95' (Sci Fi Horror) or Fire In The Sky. 93' (Based on True Events)

Kyra's a little prankster. I love her. C'mon girl, you didnt have to scare Cole like that. Y'all had already met. Dammit Kyra! lol

He didnt know he was dead. Remember he said, Smtimes they dont know theyre dead.