![]() ![]() 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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