Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 103
Fresh: 69 | Rotten: 34
Kevin Bacon's acting is so genuine that it's creepy and director David Keopp knows how to create true suspense.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 7
Kevin Bacon's acting is so genuine that it's creepy and director David Keopp knows how to create true suspense.
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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In this supernatural thriller, Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is a fairly typical working-class guy living in Chicago with his wife Maggie (Kathryn Erbe) and his son Jake (Zachary David Cope). One night at a party, Tom gets into a lively discussion with his sister-in-law, Lisa (Illeana Douglas), who believes in psychic communication and the power of hypnosis. He challenges Lisa to hypnotize him, and she plants in him a post-hypnotic suggestion to be more open-minded. But the results aren't quite what
Sep 10, 1999 Wide
Aug 21, 2001
Artisan Entertainment
All Critics (104) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (70) | Rotten (35) | DVD (24)
[A] serious, atmospheric, character-driven supernatural drama.
In the wake of The Sixth Sense, it's mostly the many weaknesses of Stir of Echoes that stand out while the movie's unfilled promises disappear like you-know-what.
Stir of Echoes is a ghost story and a pretty darn good one.
Stir of Echoes gives a classic ghost story extra zip by insisting on the reality of the characters and their place.
Bacon should be working with a more original substance, a subject that would be truly worthy of his highly original character and his responses.
Stir of Echoes is studded with potent fright scenes and built on a rock-solid performance by the ever - dependable Kevin Bacon.
...a stylish, sporadically gripping thriller that boasts a number of undeniably tense sequences and interludes...
Stir Of Echoes is a scary, intelligent ghost story and thriller.
The skillful shock cuts will make you jump out of your skin, but it's the digital visualisation of the ghostly Samantha which really makes the flesh crawl.
I did receive a few chills and some kicks from it.
It's nice to see he relied on more than heavy-handed filmmaking and a twist ending. I just hope audiences go for a supernatural thriller that's a little messier and doesn't feel the need to claw at their heart for two hours.
The cast is uniformly good, with Bacon giving the strongest performance as blue-collar Tom.
Bacon's performance is what makes it more than just another dead-person-walking-the-earth story. Bacon is truly a man possessed.
Ultimately, it is Bacon's blue-collar conflict that resonates.
A psychological thriller about the dark side of having highly developed psychic abilities.
If only the movie had stuck to its ghost-story groundwork....
Disturbing imagery, great timing, and strong acting by the leads.
A startling film that is exacting and personal and resonant.
Even if the ending seems a bit tidy, the film is still effective and nicely creepy -- definitely worth seeing.
I had been wanting to watch Stir of Echoes for quite some time. Reading about on horror websites and praising the film, I knew I had to check out. Unfortunately I never did, until recently. This film blends psychological horror and supernatural horror into a film that definitely chills you. The cast deliver great
October 15, 2011
Super Reviewer
With a promising start, the film seemed building up to something real good, only to completely fall apart in the final third.
August 3, 2011Super Reviewer
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