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Endnotes

1 The director’s full birth name is Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan.

2 Joshua Meyer, ‘The Films of M. Night Shyamalan Revisited: The Twists, the Triumphs, and the Turkeys’, /Film, 16 January 2019, <https://www.slashfilm.com/films-of-m-night-shyamalan -revisited/>, accessed 4 July 2019.

3 So named for the train line that plays host to the inciting incident of , but you’d be forgiven for describing the trilogy with thetrilogy’.

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