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Stir of Echoes: Friday, September 10, 1999

From Artisan Entertainment, the people that brought us the much hyped Blair Witch Project, comes another much hyped movie: A Stir of Echoes. While the hype hasn't been as mammoth as that of Blair Witch, A Stir of echoes has been stirring up quite a buzz. The trailer has been playing with The Sixth Sense and Blair Witch for weeks now, and given all the positive reviews received so far, this movie looks like it could be heading towards some major success, thanks in part to The 6th Sense which has been the number one movie for five consecutive weeks

 

Like, The 6th Sense, A Stir of Echoes taps into the supernatural world. 
Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is very skeptical about the supernatural world. For fun, he lets himself be hypnotized at a neighborhood party. The post-hypnotics suggestion opens his mind to a whole new world, and he becomes obsessed with the notion that there is a supernatural presence living in his home. While trying to discover what it all means, he discovers a horrible neighborhood secret.


This is David Koepp's sophomore attempt at the director's chair. His first movie The Trigger Effect was ill-received by the critics. He is best known and distinguished for this screenwriting work in such blockbusters such as Mission Impossible and Jurassic park.

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For Peoples Review of Stir of Echoes scroll down the page

 

Score:

Reviewers

Ebert

UsaToday

Mrshowbiz

Herald

Average

Points

75

75

68

62.5

70.12

 

 70.12- Worth Seeing

 

Rating System:

0 - 40 points

Not Worth Seeing

40 - 65 points  Go See At Matinee
65- 85 points Worth Seeing
85-100 points Definitely worth seeing. "A must see!"

Director

David Koepp

Writers

David Koepp

Genre

Thriller

Plot: 

A man with ESP struggles with his own sanity while investigating a murder.

Starring:

Kevin Bacon as Tom Witzky
Kathryn Erbe as Maggie Witzky 
Illeana Douglas as Lisa 

 

Running Time

1-hr. 50-mins.

Rating

Rated R for violence, sexuality and language.

Distributor

Artisan Entertainment

Trailer

Real Player

Website

 Official Site

SoundTrack

SoundTrack from 

 


 The People's Review of Stir of Echoes

Unknown100

score = 90
Not as good as The Sixth Sense in general quality, but about five times scarier. The way things were shown in small bits and clips like a jigsaw puzzle was creepy. But the effect that really chilled me down to the bone was the way they filmed the girl move - sort of jerky and just plain not right. If you're in the mood to get the hell scared out of you, rent this movie, wait until night, turn out the lights, and enjoy.

 

Unknown1

score -> 100 

Great movie!!!  This movie scared the hell out of me!  In my opinion, Stir of Echoes blew The Sixth Sense out of the water...  Kevin Bacon was fabulous!

 

Unknown2

score -> 100 

This was a wonderful movie!  Funny, wonderfully directed, and most of all - the scariest movie I've ever seen!!!  A must see!

 

Amber

The scariest movie I have ever seen!  It was wonderful!  Stir of Echoes had everyone in the theater jumping out of their seats!  If you haven't seen it yet, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease go see Stir of Echoes now!!!!!

 

Unknown3

score = None
Pooh pooh, you naughty people shouldn't be watching this movie.

 

Unknown4

score = 90
I've never been so scared in my life!!  The movie was wonderfully frightening.   I think I will go see it in the theater again!! :)

 

Unknown5

score = 100
Totally Freaky!  It was GREAT!

 

Unknown6

score = 100
Good movie but not scary!  It does keep your attention throughout and has quite a few funny lines in the middle of a serious plot.

 

Unknown7

score = 100
Awesome Movie  

 

Unknown8

score = 100
If you liked the sixth sence you need to see this movie! i loved it (and there nothing like kevin bacon with no shirt on, whoa hold me back!)

 

Unknown9

I managed to watch the 1st 35 minutes of this movie and finally had to leave. It was just to frightening fo me. I am curious to see the end though. I however thought 6th sense wasgreat but also scary as hell

 

Unknown10

I loved this movie - it still freaks me out to think about it.

 

Unknown11

score = 20

This movie was terrible.  Part way through I just couldn't stop laughing... and let's just say I wasn't laughing _with_ the movie.

 

Unknown12
score = 90
This is a good, B+ movie in my book.  However, i'm sure everyone's seen this before.  Wheather it be in The Twilight Zone, X-files, or any other of the new, freaky, apocalyptic flicks. How about Kevin Bacon's Chicago accent?!

 

Unknown13

score = 90
Stir of Echoes is not the sixth sense but is more active and 'creepy' than it. See Stir of Echoes, I recommend it. But don't expect it to be sixth sense. Stir of Echoes has its own sense of creepy and supenseful fun to its own.