The Sixth Sense

(Buena Vista)

The first hour of writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's psychological thriller is creepy, engaging, and unpleasant, as eight-year-old Cole (Haley Joel Osment) gets driven crazy by dead people and winds up visiting renowned child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis). Are these ghosts real or a figment of Cole's tortured imagination? Shyamalan sends the second half of the movie into more typical horror-film territory; the surprise ending, though, is quite the humdinger.