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Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 1999 / Director: David Koepp / Actors: Zachary David Cope, Kevin Bacon ... / DVD ... more
Stir of Echoes (DVD) ... released 04 October, 2004 at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL / The only real problem with Stir of Echoes has nothing to do with the movie itself, but with unlucky coincidence. Adapted from a Richard Matheson novel, this film arrived around the same time as The Sixth Sense. Surface similarities made it suffer by cursory comparison and the competing film's phenomenal success. It's a pity, because this one features one of Kevin Bacon's best performances, in a psychological thriller that makes a lot more right moves than wrong ones. Bacon plays a blue-collar guy who laments his ordinary life, only to learn, when his sister-in-law (Ileanna Douglas) hypnotizes him, that he is a "receiver" capable of seeing spirits and split-second glimpses of past and future events. It's a torturous gift to have--especially since his friendly Chicago neighbourhood possesses a dark secret--and Bacon plays the role with an appropriate mixture of obsession and internalised torment. Similarity to The Sixth Sense applies only to the basic premise and the character of Bacon's young son. Otherwise, this is more of a hard-edged journey of self-discovery, marital crisis, and recovery, with Bacon's wife (played by the highly underrated Kathryn Erbe) involved in an underdeveloped sub-plot about a group of people who share Bacon's gift as paranormal "receivers". Furthering his career as a writer-director of intelligent thrillers, David Koepp makes a few mis-steps in pacing and thematic overkill, but overall Stir of Echoes is a sharp, sensitive thriller that unfolds to reveal a dramatically satisfying solution to its mystery. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Newest Review: ... himself being contacted by a dead girl in order to find her "real killer" the film has some very creepy moments and ... more

 ... a few hide behind the cushion moments. I like all this film. I was never bored and thought the way it was made was great. In the film the man's wife thinks he is going mad as he is obsessed i finding the girls dead body. The film does remind me of the six sense which is quite strange really as they were both released around the same time. I don't think this film had much credit which it does deserve. There are a few senses that made my blood go cold. quite scary at times also so not really suitable for young viewers b...more

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QuinnElaine
Premium Review Stir of Echoes (DVD): DIG! (753 words)
by QuinnElaine - written on 18/06/08 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is just an average Chicago Joe working hard as a telephone lineman to make ends meet for his family. Wife, Maggie (Kathryn Erbe), and clever young Jake (Zachary David Cope) have settled in nicely, but we the viewers see right from the start that Jake is special. Tom, well he fancies himself to be a rational, practical, and sensible man; a skeptic of life's mysteries, great or small. His sister-in-law, Lisa (Illeana Douglas), can irritate him by her very presence simply because she prefers to embrace the inexplicable. Tom and Maggie are new to the neighborhood, but were quick to make friends in the tightly knit, and relentlessly ...

wampyrii
Premium Review I See Dead People(Again) (475 words)
by wampyrii - written on 02/10/01 (Very useful, 22 readings)
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If you saw the smash hit Bruce Willis ghost story The Sixth Sense, then you probably let this one sneak by you. The hype surrounding that movie virtually eclipsed this one which was released at around the same time and followed on the same kind of theme. Stir of Echoes features Kevin Bacon as an ordinary family man living with his wife and son in a typical Chicago suburb. He is a typical working class guy and life is pretty avergae. However, when his hippy sister-in-law comes over and hypnotises him for a party trick, his life is about to change. She leaves a suggestion that he should open his mind more to paranormal activities...the result being disturbing ...

DrCahalan
Premium Review Stir of Echoes (DVD): Horror filming at it's best (570 words)
by DrCahalan - written on 09/09/01 (Very useful, 13 readings)
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Due to the cannibalistic nature of the Hollywood system, there have been several instances over the past decade where two films with very similar storylines have been released in a short span of time. We?ve had Volcano vs. Dante?s Peak, ANTZ vs. A Bug?s Life, Armageddon vs. Deep Impact, Showgirls vs. Striptease. In all of these cases, there was always one film that outperformed the other, both financially and critically, though it could be argued whether either party - critics and moviegoers alike - had really picked the better film. This past fall, we had another competition between similar films. The Sixth Sense was released in August, and Stir of Echoes followed in ...

 
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