[A] serious, atmospheric, character-driven supernatural drama.
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12/10/07
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Stir of Echoes (1999)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:18
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Kevin Bacon's acting is so genuine that it's creepy and director David Keopp knows how to create true suspense.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon), husband and father of a precocious young son, finds his blue-collar Chicago existence altered after he is hypnotized at a neighborhood party. What started as a diversion... [More]
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn
Director: David Koepp
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Reviews for Stir of Echoes
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03/22/02
Top CriticStir of Echoes is much more down and dirty, and the thrills are more visceral.
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Top CriticAlthough it shares some basic plot points with Sixth Sense, it is more of a traditional thriller and plows some very different emotional areas.
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Top CriticVibrant, unsettling.
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Top CriticThe kind of film that may give you pause the next time you walk into a dark room by yourself.
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Top CriticIn a taut, grippingly intense performance, Bacon captures the frenetic torment of a man driven to extremes by forces he can't begin to fathom.
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Top CriticStir of Echoes might have worked just fine a few decades ago, but it now seems too simply schematic to spook us as much as it wants to.
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Top CriticStir of Echoes is a ghost story and a pretty darn good one.
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Top CriticThe credibility quotient gets its biggest boost from Bacon’s shrewdly detailed performance!
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Top CriticDavid Koepp's second outing as director elevates the horror genre with a refreshing intelligence and humor.
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Top CriticKoepp has made an interesting but irrelevant parallel between the otherworld and movies.
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Top CriticIt has enough smarts to scare us, Sixth Sense or not.
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Top CriticIt offers a stir of an echo of horror, rather than the genuine cathartic article.
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Top CriticStir of Echoes is studded with potent fright scenes and built on a rock-solid performance by the ever - dependable Kevin Bacon.
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Top CriticKevin Bacon stars in one of his best performances!
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Top CriticAfter a compelling first half, the main echoes that this ghost yarn stirs up are of other movies.
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Top CriticWhen Stir of Echoes is focused on the supernatural, it is a scary and technically superior film. However, as it turns into a conventional thriller it becomes ordinary.
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Top CriticStir of Echoes gives a classic ghost story extra zip by insisting on the reality of the characters and their place.
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