Similarity to The Sixth Sense applies only to the basic premise and the character of Bacon's young son. It's a torturous gift to have-especially since his friendly Chicago neighbourhood possesses a dark secret-and Bacon plays the role with an appropriate mixture of obsession and internalised torment. It's a pity, because this one features one of Kevin Bacon's best performances, in a psychological thriller that makes a lot more right moves than wrong ones.īacon plays a blue-collar guy who laments his ordinary life, only to learn, when his sister-in-law (Ileanna Douglas) hypnotizes him, that he is a "receiver" capable of seeing spirits and split-second glimpses of past and future events. Surface similarities made it suffer by cursory comparison and the competing film's phenomenal success. Adapted from a Richard Matheson novel, this film arrived around the same time as The Sixth Sense. The only real problem with Stir of Echoes has nothing to do with the movie itself, but with unlucky coincidence. When his nightmares start to come true, Tom has had enough, only to find that the more he wants out the more he wants to solve the crime. He then begins to realise that the visions are of an unsolved crime. He starts seeing things he cannot explain and the visions get more graphic and horrific. Tom Wiztky (Kevin Bacon) is a normal, hard-working family man whose life is turned upside down when he is hypnotised at a neighbourhood party. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. It's watchable and full of chills, but the ending's a little pat.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. This is just one of those cases where weird stuff happens to nice folk, kind of like the clan in "Poltergeist." So this is a stylish psychological/supernatural thriller with game performances by a capable cast. Can't fault the actors, though - this is an unusual role for Bacon, who here comes off as a tough, strong, blue-collar kind of guy - he and his family are close to what one might call white trash, but they're never portrayed as being mean-spirited or hateful. What's behind all of this freakiness? There's a mystery afoot, but it turns out to be a little more standard and predictable than one would hope with the solid premise. So what happened to Tom when he was under hypnosis? His sister-in-law claims there's a door in everyone's mind that's never been opened, and it sure looks like Tom's door is wide open, with a big neon sign over it, inviting him to run through with abandon. His wife Maggie (Kathryn Erbe) can't fathom his insanity, and it's driving her up the wall, as both of the men in her life are increasingly distant and non-communicative. What unfolds after that is that Tom slips further and further into imminent madness. He sees a ghost of a disappeared girl, and he's not the only one - his young son's been seeing the spectre for weeks. Tom (Kevin Bacon) has hypnotized by his sister-in-law, played by Illeana Douglas, and from then on his life's a little.well, weird.
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