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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Dec 7, 2008
Pros: Kevin Bacon, Ileana Douglas, Story
Cons: Ending
Summary: Stir of Echoes (1999) Kevin Bacon stars as a regular blue collar worker who gets hypnotized and opened to a whole nother world in this entertaining suspense/horror thriller. The movie is much better than its reputation ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 30, 2012
Pros: Delivers on atmosphere and chills
Cons: Ending could have been better
Summary: Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is an ordinary guy whose life later becomes complicated. During a get together at a block party, he talks his sister-in-law Lisa (Illeana Douglas) into hypnotizing him. She pulls it off and places a post hypnotic suggestion ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 28, 2012
Pros: Good horror thriller
Cons: I don't know, I was entertained
Summary: Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is your typical Chicago blue collar man. He’s content to live with his wife Maggie (Kathryn Erbe) and son Jake (Zachary David Cope.) He enjoys drinking beer and hanging out on weekends with his lifelong friends, and during ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 7, 2008
Pros: Bacon and rest of cast. Very well done, entertaining thriller.
Cons: Under appreciated. Might be too slow for some.
Summary: With some movies, I am not interested in seeing them for some reason and then I later change my mind. Stir of Echoes was one of those movies for me.Tom Witzky was a regular guy with a wife and young son, though he wasn't ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 17, 2008
Pros: moments of instant goosebumps, realism
Cons: that shudder-worthy fingernail scene!
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 12, 2007
Pros: Blue Collar Gothic, trippy.
Cons: Too complex for some. Not for the Anne Rice Crowd.
Summary: This film -- I don't know where to begin but seen seven years ago on Showtime in a hotel room. This movie in film story is just as unique as the novel it was based on. There are a lot similarities and a lot of differences. The safety pin scene in the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 17, 2007
Pros: suspenseful, not gory, decent plot, good acting
Cons: brief nudity, lack of character development, some stuff had little to do with the plot
Summary: My first weekend home from a trying semester away at college, I was excited to find a new movie had arrived from my family's Netflix queue- Stir of Echoes written and directed by David Koepp, starring Kevin Bacon. I had come across the movie earlier in ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 13, 2007
Pros: Good writing, good acting especially from Kevin, more psychological frights than gore & bodies
Cons: Overuse of the kid (it's the father's story), mystic clan that's out of place
Summary: Stir Of Echoes is one of the better horror movies I’ve seen in a while. I grew up watching Freddy and Jason hack people up, but now I prefer stories that don’t rely on the number of different ways people can be mauled in a 2 hour period. Echoes ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 14, 2004
Pros: Bacon, suspense
Cons: Erbe at points
Summary: Director David Koepp brings a new kind of thriller to the screen in 1999's Stir of Echoes . This isn't the kind where monsters lurk in shadows and where hapless victims scream till their untimely end. This is about ghosts (or rather a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 10, 2003
Pros: -
Cons: -
Summary: For some reason, Stir Of Echoes didn’t make a big smash at the box office, which is bewilderi ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 14, 2002
Pros: Kevin Bacon, some spooky parts.
Cons: Flat charactors, flat script, lame story.
Summary: Kevin Bacon is the only thing that this film has going for it. Let me break it down.
Plot: Hypnosis awakens a powing in Bacon to receive messages from dead people. Apparently his son has the same power and he never knew it, which most make him a ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 29, 2002
Pros: creepy, thrilling, enjoyable, Kevin Bacon
Cons: the child actor (Zachary David Cope)
Summary: I must admit that I have never heard of Stir of Echoes until I bought it in the year of 2002. I liked the front cover of the movie. When I saw it, I thought it was unbelievably great. I liked Kevin Bacon's performance in this film. He certainly gave a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 30, 2001
Pros: Well-paced movie with substantial tension and good scares.
Cons: Ending is a bit weak; Kevin Bacon's Chicago accent is a bit overdone.
Summary: I finally got around to seeing "Stir Of Echoes" towards the end of the year 2001, sometime after the movie was released. One reason I didn't see it sooner was I'd already seen "The Sixth Sense", and I knew the two were similar. Also, "Stir Of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 1, 2001
Pros: Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Some unexpected twists and turns.
Cons: Not a single thing!
Summary: This is the first film I have ever had the honor to watch that was directed by David Koepp, but you can bet that I'll be renting his first movie, A Trigger Effect! Stir of Echoes is truly a suspense film that leaves the viewer bug- eyed and nail-biting ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 29, 2001
Pros: Creepy, and by and large very good...
Cons: Not as genuinely terrifying as I'd hoped.
Summary: Stir of Echoes tell the story of an ordinary man (Tom) whose life undergoes a significant and bizarre change when a hypnotism leads to the opening of a psychic door in his head. The results of which lead to his receiving communication from the dead, and ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 23, 2001
Pros: Kevin Bacon's portrayal is excellent
Cons: It's not one of those blockbuster movies you'll be clamouring to see again and again
Summary: I don't remember ever seeing this movie advertised but it was quite neat in an off kind of way. Kevin Bacon stars as a man who was hypnotized at a party, and begins to have very weird experiences afterwards. His son also begins to hear/see things.
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 17, 2001
Pros: Kevin Bacon, great blood and guts scenes if you like that sort of thing.
Cons: an "echo" of "The Sixth Sense"
Summary: Although most people seem to like my style of epinion writing I have had numerous complaints that I don't reveal enough plot details. I happen to think that if I revealed all the plot details you would have no reason to go see the movie. However, by ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 27, 2001
Pros: Strong visuals. Heart thumping suspense. Great hypnosis scene.
Cons: Doomed to be forever and unfairly compared to the Sixth Sense.
Summary: When I saw Stir of Echoes, I saw it during a manic movie weekend. It was summer, and I had just seen a couple of other supernatural movies; The Sixth Sense and Stigmata.
I know, I know, I'm the only person in the world who didn't like Sixth ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 27, 2001
Pros: Excellent movie, Suspenseful, Great acting
Cons: Released around the same time as Sixth Sense with surface similarities.
Summary: Stir of Echoes is an excellent movie but you may have missed it. The movie has some similarity to Sixth Sense, but only on the surface, and it was released around the same time. Therefore, it was completely overlooked by some. Other than having ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 17, 2001
Pros: Sitting on the edge of my seat...
Cons: Not for children.
Summary: Last night I watched Stir Of Echos for the first time. I got mostly through it and then I started hearing thing outside. No, I am not crazy. I am not the only one to hear strange things outside. In fact, when I walked outside (I know the classic ... read more
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