The Sixth Sense (1999): Death
Shyamalan’s breakthrough smash hit, about a boy who can communicate with the dead, is about the nature of grief and the uncertainty of what lies beyond. In this film, ghosts in limbo don’t realize they’re dead because they’re so afraid of accepting that they’re gone. That’s why the nature of death itself is the first, and arguably most famous, fear that’s present in Shyamalan’s work.
