7/31/2023 0 Comments Stir of echoes movie review![]() ![]() ![]() Bacon, who's blue collar line operator carries the film. Koepp gets fine performances from his stars, particularly Mr. Especially considering that their son Jake (another precocious, tri-named child actor) exhibits this summer's special-power du jour: talking to dead people. For Tom and Maggie, one child should be enough. Kevin Bacon's Tom is unhappy with the lack of success he feels he's had in life and, to top it off, his wife Maggie (a well-grounded Kathryn Erbe) just announced that they're having another child. Koepp develops a few interesting characters, which is already saying a lot for a would-be horror movie. The director establishes a nicely eerie mood, evoking an atmosphere of foreboding the same way he did in his other directorial effort, "The Trigger Effect".Īt the start of the film, Mr. Writer-Director David Koepp, the man behind the scripts for "Jurassic Park 2" and "Mission: Impossible" among others, has said that he has wanted to make this film for some time, that it was a labor of love for him. But "Stir of Echoes" has to be given some credit since it is based on a Richard Matheson novel which came out in 1957, long before those other would-be influences. "Stir" seems to borrow not only from the recent Bruce Willis thriller, but also from "The Shining" and even "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". "Stir of Echoes" would beg comparison to other films even if it didn't come out in such unfortunate proximity to "The Sixth Sense".
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