10 Greatest 'I'm Dead And I Know It' Moments In Supernatural Horror Movies

1. Malcolm Crowe - The Sixth Sense

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While the rest of this list consists of characters who realised that their own deaths were inevitable and very much on the horizon, Malcolm Crowe had a literal moment of "I really am dead and now I totally know it" in The Sixth Sense.

M. Night Shyamalan's masterpiece, The Sixth Sense has Bruce Willis' Malcolm as a child psychiatrist who is helping young Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) deal with the visions of dead people that plague the poor kid.

Blowing audiences' minds at the time of its 1999 release, the major kicker of The Sixth Sense is the reveal that Malcolm has been dead throughout 95% of the movie and is one of the deceased beings whom Cole is able to communicate with.

As this reveal plays out, we get to see Willis' character get the shock realisation that he is dead, and the movie then shows several examples of prior scenes that served as Malcolm seeing things only how he wanted to see them; a trait that Cole has previously explained is commonplace with the deceased.

For Malcolm, he had been shot and killed in The Sixth Sense's opening moments - a shooting that we all initially presumed wasn't fatal - and M. Night Shyamalan had played us all like puppets.

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