This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve holds Ryan’s hair back while he cries and dry heaves and rocks back and forth like his cat just died, because there has never been a movie more perfectly designed to make him cry like The Sixth Sense. Misunderstood children? Check. Put-upon mothers just trying their best? Check. An exasperated but committed psychologist just trying to figure out how to reach this kid? Double check. Get your tissues for this one.

The Sixth Sense (1999)

d. M. Night Shyamalan

Starring:
Bruce Willis
Haley Joel Osment
Toni Collette
Donnie Wahlberg
Mischa Barton

Young Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. He is too afraid to tell anyone about his anguish, except child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe. As Dr. Crowe tries to uncover the truth about Cole's supernatural abilities, the consequences for client and therapist are a jolt that awakens them both to something unexplainable.

Things discussed in the show:

PEN15 season 2 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman)

YouTube prank channels

Aokigahara, the Japanese suicide forest

Bloody Mary

Minecraft

Heathers

Unspooled Podcast

Mean Girls (Mark Waters, Tina Fey, Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams )

Donnie Darko

Big Mouth (Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, Jordan Peele, Jenny Slate)

Raised by Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski, Ridley Scott, Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim)

Cult of Apollo, Ra and other sun gods

Warhammer 40k and the God Emperor

Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan)

Sunshine (Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans)

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

Heavy Metal magazine

Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich)

German Expressionism

The Boys season 2 (Garth Ennis, Eric Kripke, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie)

Radicalized shooters (Kyle Rittenhouse, Dylann Roof)

Utopia (Gillian Flynn, John Cusack, Ashleigh LaThrop, Dan Byrd, Desmin Borges, Christopher Denham, Javon 'Wanna' Walton, Farrah Mackenzie

Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)

Ulysees' Gaze (Theodoros Angelopoulos)

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman)

Losing and gaining weight as an actor (Kumail Nanjiani)

Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, Jake LaMotta, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci)

Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange)

White Men Can't Jump

Armageddon (Michael Bay, J.J. Abrams, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson)

Child psychology and ghosts

What's more scary, basements or attics

Battlestar Galactica (Glen A. Larson, Ronald D. Moore, Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff, Michael Hogan)

Home Alone

Cask of the Amontillado (Edgar Allen Poe)

The Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison)

Alfred Hitchcock

Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter)

Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale)

Knives Out (Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer)

The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers)

Paste Magazine

DJ Bruce Willis and his band Bruno

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

The Rolling Stones

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Kathy Griffin)

Moonlighting (Glenn Gordon Caron, Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley)

Die Hard (John McTiernan, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia)

The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry)

Sin City (Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Rutger Hauer, Brittany Murphy, Nick Offerman, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood)

The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Charisma Carpenter, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke)

South Park Quarantine Special - Mickey Mouse has sex with a bat

Questlove of The Roots

Michael Cera

James Newton Howard soundtrack

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, David Koepp, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf)

The Frighteners (Peter Jackson, Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson)

Dr. Sleep (Mike Flanagan, Stephen King, Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran)

Get this ghost gone:

Jacob Marley (A Christmas Carol)

Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter)

Slimer (Ghostbusters)

Casper the Friendly Ghost vs. John Wayne Gacy

Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)

Large Marge (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)

The Booberries Ghost vs. Count Chocula

Jesus as a ghost (Luke 24:36-51)

Ghost (Jerry Zucker, Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg)

Stir of Echos (David Koepp, Kevin Bacon, Zachary David Cope, Kathryn Erbe)

Blair Witch Project

Next week: Thriller & American Werewolf in London