The Sixth Sense (1999)

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Wikidata Q183063, film, IMDb tt0167404, TMDB 745: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits M. Night Shyamalan as director (The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!); 1 more episode agrees.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check — Patreon

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Fight Club: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (twist pairing): The Sixth Sense → Fight Club. Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal.
    “That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40 sure it was them)

Obsession: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career-launch comp): Obsession → The Sixth Sense. Obsession might be like The Sixth Sense, a breakout that puts a new filmmaker on the map and starts a brand.
    “is it more like maybe a 6th sense kind of thing where that kind of puts Shamalan on the map and then there's like a Curry Barker brand?”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:06:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

The 13th Warrior: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): The 13th Warrior → The Sixth Sense. The Sixth Sense was Disney's own mega-hit, number one the weekend The 13th Warrior opened, covering their loss.
    “Disney's basically covered their losses from this movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:49:16 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

The Others: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): The Others → The Sixth Sense. The Others arrived on the heels of The Sixth Sense and the two are paired in many ways.
    “Coming hot on the heels of the 6th sense is these 2 movies are sort of paired in many ways.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:12:26 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

The Truman Show: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Truman Show → The Sixth Sense. The film gives its premise away early; played as a Sixth Sense twist it would be a different thing.
    “if you just have it play like a 6th sense twist.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:10 · Glen Powell (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career-launch comp): Obsession → The Sixth Sense. Obsession might be like The Sixth Sense, a breakout that puts a new filmmaker on the map and starts a brand.
    “is it more like maybe a 6th sense kind of thing where that kind of puts Shamalan on the map and then there's like a Curry Barker brand?”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:06:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): The Truman Show → The Sixth Sense. The film gives its premise away early; played as a Sixth Sense twist it would be a different thing.
    “if you just have it play like a 6th sense twist.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:10 · Glen Powell (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): The Others → The Sixth Sense. The Others arrived on the heels of The Sixth Sense and the two are paired in many ways.
    “Coming hot on the heels of the 6th sense is these 2 movies are sort of paired in many ways.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:12:26 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (programming): The 13th Warrior → The Sixth Sense. The Sixth Sense was Disney's own mega-hit, number one the weekend The 13th Warrior opened, covering their loss.
    “Disney's basically covered their losses from this movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:49:16 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. programming (twist pairing): The Sixth Sense → Fight Club. Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal.
    “That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

None.

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.