10 Hit Horror Movies That DIDN'T Get Sequels

Topping the list is a film that had a huge impact on pop culture when it was released. Think of how often “I see dead people” has been parodied. Try and remember a time when people watched this film not knowing that Bruce Willis was a ghost all along. It made Hayley Joel Osment an overnight star and grossed an eye-watering $672.8 million at the box office.

And yet The Sixth Sense never became franchised. Producers could have used Cole Sear’s (Osment) ability to see and hear the dead to make any ghost film they wanted, safe in the knowledge that Osment and the quality of the original would draw.

But Hollywood showed more interest in writer/director M. Night Shyamalan than The Sixth Sense as a franchise, and it would be a succession of Shyamalan mystery/horror films such as Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village that appeared off the back of The Sixth Sense’s glory.

It’s probably too late to try and give The Sixth Sense a sequel now that Osment is all grown up, but it’s a film whose cultural impact will stand the test of time on its own.