On The Sixth Sense’s 20th Anniversary, Haley Joel Osment Reveals He Did Not Know It Was a Scary Movie

It's has been 20 years since M Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense opened in theatres. The movie put the director in the league of Hollywood biggies. Ever since all of his subsequent movies have had to face the excruciating expectations of living up to a certain level. Of course, the movie still remains one of the best horror movies ever made. Twenty years on, the cast and the director revisited the experience of shooting this masterpiece in an interview with Variety. Turns out, lead actor Haley Joel Osment, who was 10-year-old back then, had no idea he was shooting for a scary film. Glass Director M Night Shyamalan Will Direct A Marvel or DC Movie But On One Big Condition.

In the interview, he said, "The first time I remember seeing a lot of it other than dailies was at Disney’s lot in Burbank in the Seven Dwarves building where they had some screening rooms. I went there with my whole family except for my younger sister who was too young. A friend of mine came, and I remember him getting really scared by it. That was the first time I was like, 'Oh, wow, this is what this movie does to people'" Harry Potter Star Rupert Grint Joins Cast of M Night Shyamalan’s ‘Apple’ Series.

Mischa Barton, who was 13 at the time and played the cameo role of Kyra Collins, also had a similar experience. The kids in her school started treating her differently. "All these kids went to the movie theatre and they were like “Is that you?” The whole school treated me differently. I don’t think the teachers knew what to do with me," she said.

Shyamalan said that the movie created a relationship with his name and that it is the only movie that got to live without his name.

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