| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | STIR OF ECHOES (1999) |
| Director | David Koepp |
| Writer | David Koepp (screenplay), Richard Matheson (novel) |
| Lead Actor | Kevin Bacon |
| Cast | Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Zachary David Cope |
| Genre | Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Release Date | September 10, 1999 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 39m (99 min) |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDb Rating | 7.0/10 |
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STIR OF ECHOES is a kind of middle-America ghost story, set in a white working-class neighborhood of Chicago urban creepy rather than witch in the woods stuff. It’s about a five-year-old who has one-way chats with a ghost. Unlike the boy in The Sixth Sense, he’s not terrified.
Things pick up when his dad (Kevin Bacon) plays around imprudently with hypnotism and is haunted with the same scary visitations from a spooky lady with an urgent message. Writer-director David Koepp gets a tense and riveting performance from Bacon as he endures infrared flashes, chases a babysitter to Union Station, has a prophetic dream about a neighborhood suicide and tries to get the hypnotist (Illeana Douglas) to turn off the unpleasant magic.
Ultimately, Stir is another tale that first frightens with ghosts, then finds them helpful and benign the true villains are among the living. (The spirituality is strictly Hollywood.) The threatened nuclear family (father, son and unflappable mom, played by Kathryn Erbe) triumphs, but not until we’ve learned an unpleasant secret and endured a gripping climax. Credible, higher I.Q. spook tale, much too intense for the immature and suggestible.
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