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, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0881631/?ref_