Ranking Every M. Night Shyamalan Plot Twist From Worst To Best

The Plot: Child psychologist Malcolm Crowe begins working with little Cole Sear, a boy who claims he can "see dead people" and who reminds Crowe a former patient. A former patient who just happened to shoot him in the chest before killing himself a year earlier.

Later on, it's revealed that Cole is able to see dead people, which definitely isn't foreshadowing. At all.

The Twist: Malcolm Crowe was...pause for dramatic effect...dead the whole time.

Before Shyamalan's propensity for swerving audiences in the final minutes became passé, he was able to craft one of the most genuinely shocking revelations in movie history.

The moment Bruce Willis' character realizes that he's one of the dead people Haley Joel Osment has been talking to - complete with flashbacks to every point during the movie where audiences should have suspected something was amiss - ranks right up there with learning Keyser Soze's true identity or the reveal that Norman Bates was pretending to be his mother all along.

It's a classic - if somewhat illogical - plot twist that kickstarted Shyamalan's career, for better or worse.