M Night Shyamalan is one of the most singular and successful film-makers working today. His signature style – glossy spooker with goggling twist – was set early in his career with The Sixth Sense, the first of his many collaborations with Bruce Willis and an enduring classic.
He followed it up with the Willis/Samuel L Jackson train-set rollercoaster Unbreakable; Signs, in which Joaquin Phoenix and Mel Gibson are baffled by crop circles; and The Village, featuring Bryce Dallas Howard as a woman trapped in a regressive rural community.
