Bone-chilling heebie-jeebies

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 1999)

"Fantastically creepy! One of year's best!" is how it would read were I quoted in one of The Sixth Sense's ads.

From the surreal opening credits, fading in the smoky white letters over a black background, the aura of this film is a little spooky and subtly intense.
According to our young protagonist, Cole Sear (Osment), when you get the shivers and feel the prickly things on the back of your neck, it is "them", the ghosts. But it is The Sixth Sense that gives you the chills at your local theater.
Unlike The Blair Witch Project, which I enjoyed for the psychological aspects, The Sixth Sens genuinely had me spooked. After seeing it yesterday afternoon, last night when I woke up a few times and felt a bit of a chill, refused to open my eyes.
By the way, the acting is top-notch and Haley Joel Osment blows the other 10-year-old of the summer, Jake Lloyd, out of the water. Anakin has nothing on our little talker with the dead.