10 Movies Which Go From 0-100 Right At The End

Few twists have been spoiled more frequently or emphatically in pop culture than The Sixth Sense. Back when M. Night Shyamalan was still The Man, perhaps his best twist of all - that Bruce Willis is a ghost for the film's duration - was spoiled on everything from Scrubs to a Lonely Island song, apparently just for the hell of it. But despite this, the twist is what makes the entire picture.

Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) is a child literally haunted by ghosts, possessing a preternatural power to commune with spirits that have reason to linger beyond their passing. It makes sense, then, to pair him with child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), who vows to help him uncover the truth of his affliction, having failed a previous patient with similar complaints.

But, after coasting along for an hour-and-a-half with a few spooky yet benign moments and a lot of mystery, the whole thing comes crashing down around our ears. All the small, seemingly ordinary pieces we failed to notice along the way - that nobody but Cole talks directly to Malcolm, that his wife is perpetually sad and distant - fall into place, packing an emotional gut punch unlike any other. In one short sequence, we share Malcolm's truth, witness the gunshot that killed him, and experience the unravelling of everything we took to be true.