Stir of Echoes

Suspenseful. Well-acted. Different from the usual formula for thrillers....so, interesting. Read more

Do you like ghost stories? Did you saw Sixth Sense and liked it? This is your man. This movie was released with Sixth Sense and was a poor man at that time. But it was a well made movie. There is this simillar movie in Korea but it is ok watching this film since it is not all redundant. It has scary moments and some but also great ending, peaceful one that make us also feel like oh, now I can go back to sleep kind of feeling. The story is not that original but it is more of a Art work and Atmosphere that are great. The house is a great charactor itself too. Also Kevin Bacon and his wife charactor played by Kathryn Erbe were so great that I wanted to just watch this film again and again because of them Also the kid was so adorable to just look at. He was not just a kid. He was a great actor himself. The story is simple. Before this family moved in, there is this incident happend in this house during repairation. Two of the nabour boys happens to stop this girl who just got out of her house and rapes her and kills her, burries her inside the wall. Now not knowing all that, Kevin's family moved in. Kevin and his son see ghost from time to time. She wants something from them which is revenge and her proper burrier. Now rest of the story is pretty predictable. But you have no idea how it flow. You will enjoy how it is for every penny of it. Scary sad but not that gloomy, and joyous at the end when the girl is released in a happy face. Great movie that shouldn't be burried. Also the bluray transfer was so great comparing the fact that it was made in 1999. It was picture sound perfect. Read more

Very nice movie with great steelbook. Read more

"Stir of Echoes" is a reminder that sometimes, your ex might have had a point—at least when it came to movie nights. It's the kind of film that makes you want to explore your own untapped potentials, although, hopefully, with less haunting results. So, in a way, watching this movie is like going through a box of old relationship mementos: surprising, a bit spooky, and a testament to the fact that good things can come out of not-so-great matches. Read more

Great story. Read more

Kevin Bacon gives a great performance in this movie. Great thriller. A must have for your collection. Read more

Hey it's Sunnydale Girl here....I had to make a review of this cause I was watching The Shining last night which got me thinking of this movie.....I know a lot of people thought this was just The Darker version of The 6th sense...but it was actually a book 1st made in the 70's I believe (I didn't read it, I stand firm on my if I love the movie.....then that DOESN'T mean that the book will make it better rule) and I didn't really care why others didn't like it. I loved it and so do my guy and my friends....so let's start from the top. I lit a candle and I need you to picture one of those great old movie theatre's; and its an empty theatre, the walls are black......the rest of the theatre is completely drenched in black...theirs long black letters on the screen, they're blurry at 1st and as you get closer you start to notice a few things......The Theatre is no longer empty as you see a boy the age of 8 and an older girl sitting next to him wearing an old Orange jacket and thick glasses. It's strange but you know that the girls a ghost and the boy has the special ability to talk to ghost to help them...after that you have to know more.....Now I saw this movie after the 6th sense and at 1st I liked this one more cause of the story line....but later I linked the 6th sense and this one all up with The Shining.....(even with Simpson's version of The Shining....where Groundskeeper Willy says you've got the shinning......Bart says...Oh you mean Shining.....and he says......shhh! You wanna get sued, which is funny cause I've seen 50000 spoofs of this, my 2nd favorite being the South Park episode at the old Blockbuster Stan's dad bought. Which brings me to the cemetery scene in Stir of Echoes. The boy walks past a tall black man who says The Boys got the second sight.....x-Ray....the father 2. And I thought this was one of Kevin Bacon's best roles.....the other and this is gonna date me......was Tremors. The mom I thought was a tad annoying cause she took a long while 2 understand what was going on, and wasn't exactly being supportive....until a while in the movie. As for the little boy, as far as I'm concerned....I like him....Haley Joel Osment and Danny. I thought the clues were Really cool, my favorite was the movie theatre intro I did.....and how he kept humming Paint It Black.....A song which the mom knew but wasn't sure why the kid was singing it...and in turn he wasn't sure either...I liked how the day the murder happened started coming to life in bits and pieces of clues that Kevin Bacon had to figure out, and I liked how when the girl got her retribution.....she was released and got to leave this plane ( in fact that's the song I used for my Headline.) And leaving what ended up being a pretty bad neighborhood knowing that the husband and the son were different, but they could still be a family. Read more

I have not seen the movie in years. The re-mastered version Blu-ray is very good. A keeper. Read more