A boy communicates with spirits unknowingly and seeks help from a psychologist. The film uses tense music and realistic diegetic sounds to create an unnerving atmosphere. It features famous actors Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, and Toni Collette in mystery thriller about a child who speaks with the dead.

2. GENRE
• Drama/Mystery/Thriller

3. PLOT
• A boy communicates with spirits
not knowing that they are dead.
He seeks the help of a
disheartened child psychologist.

4. SOUND
• This film has a lot of tense scenes with action
and drama.
• Diegetic sound is used mainly throughout the
opening scene, this makes the film feel very
realistic adding a lot of fear to it.
• It has a lot of scenes with gun shots and
music which builds up. This startles the
audience.

5. CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING
• The credits appear extremely slowly, zooming
closer before cutting to the next name. This is
an early indicator that the genre of the movie
is a thriller.
• The director builds up an unnerving
atmosphere with mysterious eerie scenes.
• The different camera angles used also create
different atmospheres such as fast moving
shots used to capture chase scenes.

6. ACTING
The main actors are:
• Bruce Willis who has acted in other famous films
such as Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, RED, The Fifth
Element and many more.
• Haley Joel Osment who has acted in films such as
Pay It Forward, Forrest Gump, Tusk, I’ll Follow You
Down and many more.
• Toni Collette who has starred in other films such as
Little Miss Sunshine, In Her Shoes, About a Boy,
Lucky Them and many more.