The movie It overtook The Sixth Sense after 2016 as the highest-grossing horror film in history .
The film was the second-highest-grossing film of 1999 ( behind Star Wars : Episode I – The Phantom Menace ) , grossing about $ 293 million domestically and $ 672 million worldwide , making it , at the time , the highest-grossing horror film of all time in unadjusted dollars ( it was surpassed in 2017 by It ) .
The Sixth Sense