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Haley Joel Osment is born (1988). No matter what else he does, Oscar-nominated Haley Joel has already gained a place in genre history thanks to his scene-stealing performance as Cole Sear, the haunted child opposite Bruce Willis' haunted shrink in M. Night Shyamalan's blockbuster The Sixth Sense (1999). His other credits includes Spielberg's A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (2001), Bogus (1996) and Forrest Gump (1994). Haley Joel was born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Gothic opens (1986). Director Ken Russell (Altered States, The Lair of the White Worm) concocted this stylish, hallucinatory fantasy set on the night in 1816 when Frankenstein scribe Mary Shelley and Vampyre author Dr. Polidori were inspired to write their gruesome literary masterpieces. The movie is an amalgamation of drug-induced imagery, bizarre ghost stories, and psychosexual subtext — in other words, pure Ken Russell. The cast includes Gabriel Byrne (Stigmata, Cool World) and Julian Sands (Warlock).

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Dawn of the Dead opens (1978). The second part of George Romero's "Dead" trilogy opens on this day in 1978. This time out, a small group of survivors seek refuge in a suburban shopping mall — and the blood and guts are in vivid color. Romero scores another cult hit.