It turns out that Britain has a secret branch of the government that uses “talented” individuals to spy on foreign governments and combat them if necessary. Can’t forget about that!Īll of this sounds pretty awesome, right? And you’ve likely figured out why this would never fly in a post- Sixth Sense landscape: despite the myriad differences to the film, the basic story is close enough that people would probably assume it a rip-off of Shyamalan’s film. Also at some point, he enlists the help of Ferdinand Mobius himself to figure out the secrets of the Mobius strip, which he uses to teleport instantly from one point in space to another.
So, in addition to being able to communicate with the dead and transmit their ideas, Harry is so beloved by the dead that they will literally rise up to defend him. He is then almost murdered by his stepfather until his dead mother, long gone to the river and little more than a skeleton covered in water plants, rises from the dead to drag down her murderer and save her son’s life. At the age of 18 he finds out his mother was murdered when he was a baby by his stepfather, whom he seeks out so he can enact justice/revenge. He is content to live his life quietly with the help of “The Great Majority ” breezing through school as a student with the help of a deceased headmaster as a study guide, and eventually making a modest living as a novelist publishing the works of dead novelists. He lives in a world populated entirely by the dead, rarely interacting with the living unless he absolutely must. They are his best friends, his confidants, his tutors, even at one point his coaches in martial arts. However, unlike the boy in Shyamalan’s film, the dead hold no terror for Harry. It’s the story of a young British man named Harry Keogh, who as a child discovers he can communicate with the dead. Lumley began this saga in the 1986 novel, Necroscope. That property was the Necroscope saga by Brian Lumley. The film was a smash hit, and while I enjoyed it overall (I guessed the twist when I first saw it so take that), it saddened me that another property I was fond of would likely never receive any sort of cinematic adaption, as it would be unfortunately (and incorrectly) labeled as a Sixth Sense knockoff. The boy’s mother thinks he’s suffering from some kind of mental disorder, but it’s revealed as the film goes on that the boy is actually able to communicate with the dead and cannot cope with the horrific things he is seeing. Night Shyamalan broke onto the scene with his debut full length, The Sixth Sense, in which a young boy seeks the help of a child therapist to deal with the increasingly horrifying visions he is having. Each week I’ll be taking you on a deep dive into something creepy and/or crawly and talking your ear off about why I love it so much. Welcome to THIS JUSTIN, a column dedicated to my love of all things weird and spooky.
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