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Summary: A Nice Supernatural-Thriller!
Review: This film works almost all the way through; the pace drags a lot at the end; which is ultimately unsatisfying. A scary film with some great editing and use of sound. Kevin Bacon turns in one of his best performances. Nice plot with some genuienely scary sequences, but it is a murder mystery in it's essence that happens to have supernatural plot elements. A little mis-cansting and an un-attractive ending bring it down. But it is an entertaining and scary movie. From a scale of 1-10 I give this film a 7!
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Summary: 5 STARS FOR SCARING ME OUT OF MY WITS!
Review: If you're super cynical, you might view Stir Of Echos as just a trumped up murder mystery with supernatural overtones and some oddly coincidental parallels to the Sixth Sense thrown in; (although I just recently found out who might have been copying whom)! However, if you're honest, you'll have to admit that Stir Of Echos is incredibly suspenseful (definitely Edge Of The Seat stuff!) totally riveting, and far, far CREEPIER than the Sixth Sense! In this movie, (starring Kevin Bacon) the lead character is hypontized on a drunken whim, at a party. Afterwards, he starts experiencing some very bizarre hallucinations as he realizes a "door" to another world has been opened up in his brain! As he desperately tries to get to the bottom of these terrifying images and visions he's seeing, he loses interest in his job, his family; everything! An intriguing plot, that does not disappoint! My opinion? Watch it and view for yourself! (But DON'T watch it alone)!
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Summary: SEE THE SIXTH SENSE INSTEAD OF THIS PLEASE
Review: EVERYBODY THINKS THIS IS BETTER THAN SIXTH SENSE.NO IT ISNT! THIS MOVIE WAS A LITTLE SCARY BUT IT COPIED RIGHT OFF OF SIXTH SENSE.SEE THAT INSTEAD
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Summary: Only convincing to a certain degree.
Review: Trying to decide whether to give this movie three or four stars was a bit tricky, for I'm not totally sure what it is about this movie that made me dislike it. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot, which is based on a Richard Matheson novel, and Kevin Bacon's performance is superb. Yet, when the end of the story nears, one might consider that there are too many people involved in the final climactic ending, and I use the term loosely. Kevin Bacon plays an inner-city construction worker, who is married and has a small boy. He and his family live in a small residential neighborhood filled wit lots of people who care for their image of a well-rounded community. However, at a party, Bacon is hypnotized by his wife's friend, and he beins to have visions of a girl, and it seems that she's being attacked. This begins his spiralling downfall, as he begins to tear apart his life and his home for the clues to the final answer, forsaking his job, his social life and his family. The storyline of the movie is terrific, with an evident element of suspense that is sure to please fans of The Sixth Sense. Yet, when the ending comes, it seems as though the filmmakers traded originality for a typical Hollywood ending scenario. True, that may be what was in the book, but I personally think that they could've done just a little better. Like the everlasting At First Sight, this is a movie that you should rent first before diving into the purchase pot.
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Summary: the 6 sense copied this movie and novel
Review: all right six sense was great but stir of echoes is a masterpiece. Now to talk about the copying red everywhere just like stir of echoes. the boy in stir of echoes says I see her all the time the boy in 6 sense says I see them all the time. now the 3er eye 1 extra eye 6 sense 1 extra sense. be able to see what the dead people see is the biggest copying part of it. So I would say first person who creates something so great should get the credit not something that copy. Kevin Bacon did his best performance ever he should have been nominated for Academy Award the movie should have been nominated for academy award not six sense.before the end of my review just one thing masterpiece masterpiece masterpiece.
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Summary: Forgettable
Review: A couple attempt to cope with the husband's hynopotically-enduced clairvoyance which, as a premise, could prove interesting enough. Problem is, Bacon's character's a little dense, so it takes him a good stretch of time to figure out what his new sight's all about (just enough time to blow a big budget on some decent digital effects). Meanwhile he and his wife possess absolutely no communication skills and she goes mosquitoing around her husband's head while he grunts in displeasure and shoos her away so that he may fulfil the duty demanded by The Ghost of the Chilling Cameo!Oh yeah, and their son sees the ghost too; talks to it. (A tendency which mom feels can be remedied by turning off those darn horror movies.) I'll let you guess whether or not the average dysfunctional suburban couple and their soon-to-be-in-therapy son live to the credits, which begin with an inappropriate bit of top 40 tacked on so that the film would contain just enough of it's type to sell a sountrack. But hey, it wasn't terrible waste of 90 minutes, just very average and forgettable. 2.5 stars. PEACE OUT!
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Summary: stir of echoes
Review: This is a truely edgey movie. It's a sixth sense for older people! Beacon is at his best!
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Summary: Almost as good as sixth sense
Review: I liked this movie a lot. I liked Sixth Sense better, even though this has more action throughout and Sixth Sense only gets really good at the end (which I won't spoil) The ending alone made the Sixth Sense worth it... Stir of Echoes it the opposite... the ending was weaker than the rest of the movie, but it's definitely worth a look!
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Summary: WHAT A MOVIE!
Review: What a great movie! I have never been so frightened in my entire life! I actually saw this one in the theater, and seeing The Sixth Sense, I thought I would like this one, too. One of the BEST thrillers ever made! When I saw this I nearly killed my boyfriend's hand because I was squeezing it so hard. This movie is based on the book by Richard Matheson, which I have read and loved, and I don't really care if it stays true to the novel because the movie is a work of art itself. I can really sympathize with his wife and Tom at the same time because the movie presents what the entire family is going through. I loved the little boy and the beginning just made my chin hit the floor when he turned to the camera and said, "So what's it like to be dead?" That just gave me the chills, along with the rapid shots of the girl, and just the girl herself. I rented it a week ago and it still scared me! Unfortunately, I watched it right before going to bed and I was afraid to look under my bed! One night I stayed up late alone to watch a movie and I remembered Stir and I was throughly freaked out! I'd NEVER sit in my family room in the dark watching TV 'cause I'd be afraid Samantha would be sitting next to me! This movie is my #1 reason on my list of why NOT to live in an old house: You never know what you might find buried in the basement! :)
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Summary: Just as Creepy as "The Sixth Sense"...
Review: I saw this movie very recently, and liked it alot. Although to someone who hasn't seen either one of these movies, The Sixth Sense and Stir of Echos might seem very similar. But in reality, these movies are very different. Yes, they both have a small child who sees ghosts (whether it is "I see dead people..." or "I'm afraid of the feathers...") but they are still very different. For one thing, Kevin Bacon is more like Jack Nicholson was in "The Shining" and Bruce Willis... well, wasn't. Bruce Willis had a whole Fox Mulder "I will find the truth" attitude... Bottom line: Stir of Echos is good. Rent it; buy it. Either way, you should see it.
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