In the long history of cinema, although horror movies are becoming more and more declining, they have always occupied an unshakable place in the market, and every once in a while one or several amazing horror movies will appear, which has become the focus of people's discussions.

In the second half of the 90s, due to the strong rise of the blockbuster era, the market space for horror movies was further compressed, and it was almost impossible to find a horror movie with a box office of more than 80 million US dollars, except for the two psychological thriller movies "The Silence of the Lambs" and "The Seven Deadly Sins".

In this context, the "supernatural sixth sense" was born!

"The Psychic Sixth Sense" is not "an emotional version of the 'Shining'" as Robert claims - in fact, the film does not bear much resemblance to "The Shining", but more like a combination of "The Exorcist" and "Ordinary People" - the former tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl who is possessed by a demon and her parents and priest start a relentless struggle against the devil to save the little girl; The latter tells the story of the eldest son, who was favored by his parents, drowned, while the neglected second son survived, and the family staggered forward in grief and pain.

The "supernatural sixth sense" has the fear and horror of an "exorcist", as well as the emotional bonds and spiritual redemption of "ordinary people".

The movie tells the story of Cole, an eight-year-old boy, who has a terrible secret that he can't get rid of, he can see ghosts, which makes him very scared and troubled; This made his mother Lynn a little anxious, she couldn't trust her son at all, let alone understand him, even if she wanted to protect him, she didn't know what to do. At this point, Malcolm, a child psychiatrist, reaches out to him, helping Cole out of his nightmare step by step.

It's such a simple story, it doesn't even have a clear story line, and it relies entirely on the interaction between the characters to drive the plot. But as Ernst said, it is always the most sincere and innocent emotion that really touches people's hearts. "The Sixth Sense" is infused with amazing real emotions in this simple to simple story, and every audience will be moved by the sincere emotions in the movie after watching the movie.

As a horror movie, "The Sixth Sense" is more about the fear of human beings from the heart, the fear of real life, the fear of failure and frustration, the fear of the unknown world, the fear of the existence of the sixth sense, and the fear of not being able to understand those intuition. The atmosphere of the horror atmosphere slowly overflowing, spreading in the beautiful and fragile story, is terrifying but can't help but continue watching. But beyond horror, the essence of the film is to talk about learning how to communicate with those fears, whether it's between doctors and patients, between husbands and wives, between mothers and children, or between people and their loved ones who have died.

The movie is very ingenious about Cole's yin and yang eyes, not only to see the terrible devil, but also to see that when people face death, when people face parting, when people face the loss of their loved ones, the inner pain, bitterness, hardship, loneliness and loneliness are shown in different forms. Everyone knows that "the dead are gone, and the living are like this", but not everyone can do it.

Just as Cole's yin and yang eyes connect the two worlds, the emotional bond between people and people binds their lives together, and when this emotional bond is severed, life will be shattered, which is the reason for us to fight for it, the reason for us to keep going, and the reason for us to survive in this cruel and cold world.

The run-in between Cole and Dr. Malcolm, the bump between Cole and his mother Lynn, the fragile emotions from the heart firmly bind each other together, and the fear of yin and yang eyes are intertwined, like two sides of the palm, completely different but inseparable.

This makes "The Sixth Sense" not only an excellent horror movie - the horror that slowly seeps into the bloodstream is creepy, but also an excellent drama movie! The dazzling story twists and turns, making the film break away from the ranks of excellence and become a classic, alongside "The Shining", "The Exorcist", "Psycho" and other works as one of the most recognized horror classics in film history.

"The Sixth Sense" has just the right treatment of the atmosphere of fear and emotional bonds, making it an unimaginably huge success, not only sweeping the box office of $290 million in North America, becoming the most successful horror movie in film history; It also became the fourth horror film in film history to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars that year - and the last in the era known to Hugo, and won a total of six nominations for Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing.

Even on the IMDB list rated by the audience, the "Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" ranks among the top 200 all year round, hovering around the 150th place. This shows people's love for this work.

It is no exaggeration to say that "The Sixth Sense" as a horror movie, has created an almost insurmountable peak, perhaps purely from the perspective of professional horror films or professional fans, this is not the best horror movie, but no one can deny that this is the most successful work in terms of the combination of business and art, almost writing a miracle of horror movies, which no one has been able to achieve, let alone break, in the next two decades.

Most interestingly, the huge success of "The Sixth Sense" made Indian director M. Knight Shyamalan (M. Yamalan) Night。 Shyamalan's film is just Knight's second film – he has single-handedly taken on the burden of writing and directing, but with unimaginable surprising effects, allowing him to experience a roller coaster of the American dream and become the best of young directors in Hollywood overnight. That's not the fun part, it's the next part that's interesting.

The success of "The Sixth Sense" made Knight one of Hollywood's most sought-after directors, and major studios flocked to him - just as Hugo made history with "speed of life and death" and "vulgarity". But Knight's next career curve surprised everyone, he first collaborated with the production company of "The Sixth Sense" Bowei Pictures on three consecutive films, "Unbreakable", "Sighs", "The. Village)", as a result, all three films failed miserably at the box office! Although the investment in the three works is about 70 million, the loss is not large, but it hurt the vitality of Bowei Pictures and had to suspend the cooperation with Knight.

Subsequently, Knight and Warner Bros. collaborated on "Lady. In。 The。 Water)", fiasco! He also collaborated with Twentieth Century Fox on "The Doom. Happening)", fiasco! Collaborated with Paramount on "The Last Wind Child. Last。 Airbender)", Paramount, whose capital chain is stretched, almost filed for bankruptcy! Collaborated with Universal Pictures on "Devil in the Elevator", and lost all your money! Collaborated with Columbia Pictures on "Return to Earth" (After. Earth)", a big failure, directly ended Will Smith's "Emperor Myth", and even had to nod and agree in order to pay off the debt, "I am Legend 2 (I. Am。 Legend)" and "Robot 2 (I, Robot)" have begun.

After MGM was acquired by Sony in 2005, New Line Pictures also merged into Warner Bros. due to poor performance, and since then Hollywood has only had the "Big Six", Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and Disney.

Knight has almost ruined the six major Hollywood film production companies - Bowell Pictures is a subsidiary of Disney, especially the latter works, the investment is more than 100 million US dollars, and the recovered box office can't even exceed the cost line, and the loss is huge! As a result, people in the industry gave Knight a nickname, called "The Big Six", also known as "Hollywood Terminator".

It's also become a joke in Hollywood, where people joke about not knowing who Knight will pit next; What's even more amazing is that Knight has failed so many times before and after, but Hollywood will always give him a vote of confidence, and he can always find investment again, so this has created a pattern where the six major film companies have been cheated over and over again.

In the course of Hugo's history, Knight took a break from the film industry and collaborated with Twentieth Century Fox on the TV series "Wayward." Pines)" based on David Lynch's classic "Twin Peaks." Peaks)", but unfortunately he died before he left the school, and the internal evaluation was very bad.

The reason why Knight was able to pit the Big Six in Hollywood almost created an incredible history - nine consecutive fiascos of nine works is estimated to be truly unprecedented. The most important reason is the huge success of "The Sixth Sense", which can be seen from this side, how powerful the success of the "Sixth Sense" as a horror movie has had on the whole of Hollywood - it actually allowed the six major studios to indulge Knight for 20 years.

"The Sixth Sense" is a very delicate work, in which the three main characters - Malcolm, Cole and Lynn are the absolute core, the characters are very full and three-dimensional, and the inner transformation is rich and real, which makes the performance of the three people will be the key to the success of the movie.

Now Robert put this work in front of Hugo, hoping that Hugo would play the role of Malcolm, which is not only a wonderful story, but also a very challenging role. Hugo's mind connected every word of Robert before, and he had to applaud Robert's careful calculation, in short, Robert almost gave Hugo a project that he couldn't refuse, and then it was clear that this was a trap, depending on whether Hugo was willing to jump in.

This wisdom made Hugo can't help but want to applaud him.