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Wish I had known about all the bad language before I had gotton the movie, aside from that, the plot was good and I enjoyed the story line in the movie. It was a bit predictable though. Kevin Bacon was good in the movie; played a good role as someone hounded by a ghost. A bit unrealistic that his wife would have put up with all the crap he was giving her! Guess it was real love!

Stir of Echoes is a supernatural thriller starring Kevin Bacon. When it was realeased in theaters it was percieved as a Sixth Sense wannabe but it is actually a very good film now that it can be viewed on its own. Based on the story by Richard Matheson (who was an influence on Stephen King), it is the story of average guy Tom Witzky (Bacon in an outstanding performance) who lives in a working class Chicago neighborhood and undergoes hypnotizm at a party. That experience changes him and now he has visions and intuitive feelings that understandably begin to creep him out, particularly since he did not believe in the supernatural until this stuff started happening to him. The mystery he uncovers is not that complex but it is still suspenseful to see unfold. His new insight drives him to behave in eratic ways putting stress on his wife and son but leading to eerie results. I think that family relationship is the most interesting part of the film. In hindsight this movie has only a couple of similarities with Sixth Sense: a kid who talks to the dead; a ghost that wants something from the living. But it also has much in common with Stephen King's work (and probably a number of other ghost stories). I think some of the photography prefigures the interest in Japanese horror films here in America. And setting the film in Chicago was an interesting choice as well. David Koepp wrote and directed the film. He helped Michael Crichton write the screenplay to Jurrasic Park which I was not a fan of but I think this is a film he can be proud of. It is a solid supernatural thriller that many will enjoy.