Stir of Echoes Reviews

Stir of Echoes Review
by Greg King
STIR OF ECHOES (M). (Twentieth Century Fox) Director: David Koepp Stars: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn, Zachary David Cope, Jenny Morrison, Liza Weil, Chalon Williams Running time: 99 minutes. What have we here? A cute young...more

Stir of Echoes Review
by Frankie Paiva
Bad things happen in big cities. So many films have been telling us this in the past year, and for the Witzky family, there's no exception. While drunk at a neighborhood party Tom Witzky (Bacon) dares his sister Lisa (Douglas) to hypnotize him, thinking...more

Stir of Echoes Review
by Shane Burridge
In summary, this film can be outlined in a single sentence, which should be enough to trigger the warning SPOILER AHEAD in most people's minds. I won't divulge its premise here if you've managed to avoid it thus far, but I will say this: for a basic...more

Stir of Echoes Review
by Walter Frith
Kevin Bacon usually does his best work as a character actor. His three best performances are in 'Sleepers' (1996) where he played a sexually abusive and brutally violent reform school guard. In 'Murder in the First' (1995), he played a man driven to the...more

Stir of Echoes Review
by Ross Anthony
This film has been compared to "The Sixth Sense." While it has the similarity of a man and boy who see a ghost, the rest is quite different. In this case, the man (Kevin Bacon) is the boy's father and there is only one ghost -- haunting their home. more

Stir of Echoes Review
by Stephen Graham Jones
Take Chinatown as the archetypical detective movie. In it a private investigator has to reconstruct some crime bit by bit. And the crime of course happened before the movie started. And everyone tries to steer him off the case. And it all gets real...more

Stir of Echoes Review
by Jerry Saravia
Kevin Bacon is another one of our most unsung actors in the movies whose talent is often unspoken of. This man has appeared in "J.F.K," "Sleepers," "A Few Good Men," and "Apollo 13." He has also had his footing in the sci-fi/horror genre in films like...more

Stir of Echoes Review
by Akiva Gottlieb
rated R Artisan Entertainment 99 minutes starring Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Ileana Douglas, Liza Weil, Kevin Dunn, Conor O'Farrell, Jenny Morrison, Zachary David Cope based on the novel "A Stir Of Echoes" by Richard Matheson written and directed by...more

Stir of Echoes Review
by JABII
CAST Kevin Bacon - Tom Witzky Kathryn Erbe - Maggie Witzky Illeana Douglas - Lisa Zachary David Cope - Jake Witzky Liza Weil - Debbie Kozac Kevin Dunn - Frank McCarthy more

Stir of Echoes Review
by Mark R Leeper
Capsule: This story is based on a lesser novel by horror master Richard Matheson. It involves ghosts and telepathy, is atmospheric, and told with a great deal of tension. Unfortunately the plot...more

Stir of Echoes Review
by Jamey Hughton
The release of Stir of Echoes is a stroke of good luck. Audiences have been widely flocking to the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense, which is essentially a ghost story with a unique twist. Perhaps they’re in the mood for another offering from beyond...more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Michael Dequina
"If you liked _The_Sixth_Sense_, then you'll love _Stir_of_Echoes_." I'm actually a bit surprised that Artisan Entertainment isn't going that cornball route with their film's publicity, for David Koepp's adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel shares a...more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Kent Johnson
A STIR OF ECHOES USA 1999 Directed by David Koepp Screenplay by David Koepp from the novel by Richard Matheson Starring Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Zachary David Cope, Kevin Dunn, Conor O'Farrell Reviewed by Kent Johnson more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Chuck Schwartz
CrankyCritic® movie reviews: Stir of Echoes Rated [R], 107 minutes Starring Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn, Zachary David Cope Based on the novel by Richard Matheson Written and Directed by David...more
Stir of Echoes Review
by James Sanford
Before you spend countless hours at the word processor turning that great high-concept idea for a movie into a full-length screenplay, realize that somewhere in Hollywood some other writer has probably had exactly the same flash of brilliance...more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Dustin Putman
Directed by David Koepp. Cast: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Zachary David Cope, Illeana Douglas, Jenny Morrison, Kevin Dunn, Liza Weil. 1999 - 99 minutes Rated R (for violence, profanity, sex, and an attempted rape). Reviewed September 11, 1999. more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Joy Wyse
It is astonishing that major motion picture studios often release movies with similar plots within weeks of each other. Last year there was Deep Impact and Armageddon. So, there is no question that Stir of Echoes will be compared to the summer’s...more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Scott Renshaw
STIR OF ECHOES (Artisan) Starring: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Zachary David Cope, Kevin Dunn, Jenny Morrison. Screenplay: David Koepp, based on the novel _A Stir of Echoes_ by Richard Matheson. Producers: Gavin Polone and Judy...more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Tim Chandler
Directed by: David Koepp Written by: David Koepp (novel by Richard Matheson) Starring: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn, Zachary David Cope Produced by: Judy Hofflund, Gavin Polone more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Steve Rhodes
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then THE SIXTH SENSE, the surprise hit of the summer, should feel honored by STIR OF ECHOES since the stories are like fraternal twins. Both have frightening, horror picture elements and both feature a...more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Berge Garabedian
"Does it hurt to be dead?", is one of the first questions that we hear the little kid in this movie ask someone who is not shown to us. Hmmm...I thought. Sounds kinda familiar. You bet it sounds familiar! The concepts behind this film are eerily...more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Susan Granger
If you enjoyed "The Sixth Sense," you're gonna want to see this supernatural thriller starring Kevin Bacon as a Chicago telephone lineman who discovers horror lurking under his own roof after he's hypnotized by his sister-in-law (Illeana Douglas)...more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Harvey S. Karten
Reviewed by Harvey Karten Artisan Entertainment Director: David Koepp Writer: David Koepp, book by Richard Matheson Cast: Kevin Bacon, Illeana Douglas, Mary Kay Cook, Kevin Dunn, Kathryn Erbe, Steve Rifkin, Liza Weil, Chalon Williams more
Stir of Echoes Review
by Jon Popick
The year’s second scariest film (after The Blair Witch Project) comes from an unlikely source – writer/director David Koepp (The Trigger Effect), who adapted the script from Richard Matheson’s book (he also wrote the novel What Dreams May Come). Echoes...more