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Summary: Not even close to Sixth sense
Review: Sixth sense was a good movie, and this one isn't even close to beeing one. It starts off pretty promising with Kevin Bacon having very weird and scary dream sequences, and some encounters with the ghost that scared me quite a bit. But then the scary part of this movie ends and it focuses more on Kevin and his family. The last hour of the movie is really boring and predictable, and the end is the standard thriller ending. I understand why Sixth sense got all the attention and this film was left behind. Sixth sense is actually good.
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Summary: THE BACON WAS SIZZLIN'
Review: This is by far Kevin Bacon's best work ever. This movie was the one that gave me a great respect for his acting capabilities.Kevin delivered a performance that made me feel as though I was right there with him. I've never seen him give such believability to his performance. This movie is wonderfully written and directed. I could not leave my seat until the movie was over. It was not at all predictable, which is something that you find in many movies. Unfortunately this movie was cast aside and is categorized as a cult classic. Kevin Bacon definately gave an "Award Winning" performance. The industry may not appreciate Kevin's abilities, but there are those of us out there who knows gifted when we see it. Peace and Blessing to all who reads my review.
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Summary: TwIsTeD TuRnS
Review: Deffinately worth the price of admission. Im not a huge fan of Bacon. However I really enjoyed him in this movie. It starts a little slow but hang in their it turns out really great.
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Summary: A 'Stir' in the Neighborhood
Review: Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) wanted to be hypnotized, so he did. Big mistake. He then saw glimpses of spirits and events that happened in the past. A 'receiver' as a mysterious cop told his wife. Witzky is sick of his pathetic life and doesn't realize what he has. His wife doesn't know what's wrong with him, but his son knows. There's a secret in Chicago that's about to be uncovered and a girl's murder will come to justice. I liked this more than "The Sixth Sense" because of its characters. Better performances and a better story. He tried to uncover the mystery throughout the whole movie, but little Haley Joel tried to help a spirit at the end of that movie. It just didn't belong there. In this, it does. I don't know if I can listen to The Rolling Stones again. Kevin Bacon is definitely a good actor. Think twice about children who have imaginary friends, they might be ghosts.
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Summary: I'm kinda' in the middle of somethin'
Review: I'm kinda' in the middle of somethin' That was an unforgettable scene from this film. Kevin Bacon is in the middle of digging up his backyard when his wife shows up and asks him to come with her to her Grandmother's funeral. Kevin is great in this film. He plays a regular guy leading a regular life in a small northern rowhouse neighborhood. He and his family have been there for several months and are renting a house from one of the neighbors. It's a pretty tight knit community. Everyone knows everyone. At a neighborhood party, Kevin consents to be hypnotized. Once that happens, his life will never be the same. He is now a "receiver". Constantly bombarded by ideas that are not his own. He begins to understand his son and his problems. Evidently, not too long in the past, his house was the scene of a murder. The neighbors were aware of it and chose to hide it rather than notify the authorities. Kevin's son has been communicating with the vistim for some time. His parents assumed he was just using his "imagination". Now Kevin is experiencing the same communications. This is a scary film, it's also a funny film... Lot's a good, intense story here....
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Summary: Super great Thriller, and Sooooo underrated
Review: I must admit that I have never heard of Stir of Echoes until I bought it in the year of 2002. I liked the front cover of the movie. When I saw it, I thought it was unbelievably great. I liked Kevin Bacon's performance in this film. He certainly gave a great serious work on his part to really make this movie connect with the audience. I liked the story even though I didn't like the idea of a child actor being in it because they are not very good and natural enough. I will let this slide because the story really dominated the movie. I was puzzled about few characters, how they acted in the middle of the film, but I know now because the ending revealed it all. I saw The Mothman Prophecies before I saw this one. After seeing The Mothman Prophecies, the movie raised the standards higher than it was originally with M. Night Shyamalan films and the others. I feel this movie Stir of Echoes comes close to meet the new standards I have a high praise for the dynamic story created. Just for the record, Artisan, as I predict, will be the upcoming top producer of great movies in the future because what I have seen so far are extremely remarkable: Stir of Echoes, Pi, Belly, The Limey, The Ninth Gate, Dune, and many more. In addition, I researched on this film and did not know that it was released the same time as Sixth Sense. Now, that explains why this movie was in the closet. Suppose if this film was released only, I can safely say that this film will fare greater than it was in the first place.
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Summary: Brilliantly flawed
Review: Kevin Bacon turns quite possibly the best performance of his career as a non-believer in the paranormal, that is until he is hypnotized and he stumbles onto a secret buried under his peaceful Chicago neighborhood. Like the Amazon review says, the only thing that was wrong with Stir of Echoes was bad timing, otherwise this would have been a big hit (well, in my opinion anyway). The boy who plays Bacon's son (whose name I can't remember) is good as well, and bears some resemblances to Haley Joel Osment. The film is slowly paced at first, but it builds up to a nice payoff in the end when secrets are revealed, and the last shot of the film with Bacon's son was absolutely haunting. All in all, if your looking for a real good thriller, give Stir of Echoes a shot, it is very overlooked and could be a cult classic in the making.
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Summary: There's a reason why this film's gotten so much acclaim.
Review: Kevin Bacon is Tom Witzky, a normal man who's just moved into a new Chicago neighborhood with his wife (Kathryn Erbe) and young son. Going to a party one night, he's hypnotized by his sister-in-law just for kicks, but once he's out of his trance, he receives dark visions and strange messages that lead to a mystery that occurred in the very neighborhood he now lives in. Underrated financial failure(somehow, the awful Stigmata managed to gross much more money on the same opening weekend) from writer/director David Koepp is an engrossing thriller and one of the most effective horror films of the 90's, it's intelligent, superbly acted (Kevin Bacon delivers possibly the best performance of his career), and most importanty, suspenseful and frightening. Stumbles a little in the finale once the revelation is revealed, but for almost its entirety, this is a highly, highly entertaining and compelling film that casts an effective and enjoyably dark web. See it, see it NOW.
**** 1/2 out of *****
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Summary: Almost a great movie
Review: I must say I was surprised when I read the book after seeing the movie. I think the movie is just better, as a whole work of its own, than the book. It maintains a better sense of creepiness, and makes a little more sense. The characters are developed a little more, and in my opinion they act more realistically. Especially the wife character, as you get to see much more of her reaction to her husband's unravelling due to his visions. This movie has two of the scenes that truly scared me, the first being when Tom first sees the ghost, and the second being the series of shots where the ghost "plays" with Tom's wife and child. My Japanese girlfriend could understand this movie with only a very basic grasp of English, which is always a plus. A good afternoon popcorn movie.
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Summary: Good scares, but too much ham from Bacon
Review: This nice little chiller never received the attention it deserved because (as many reviewers have noted) it came out nearly at the same time as THE SIXTH SENSE, which has a similar plot and was a huge hit. It's too bad, because this juicy little thriller has some terrifically scary and surreal moments, particularly whenever the ghost that keeps contacting Kevin Bacon and his son shows up. Bacom plays Tom, a blue-collar Chicago father who starts receiving psychic messages after a hypnotic party trick conducted by his siter-in-law (Ileana Douglas, in a strangely mistimed comic performance) goes awry. Though the chills are genuine, the movie is almost set offkilter by a rare bad performance from Bacon, whose overripe Chicago accent is utterly unconvincing. He seems to be giving his audience a kind of postmodern salute to famous male film performances of the Seventies, and at times directly apes Jack Nicholson in THE SHINING, Richard Dreyfuss in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, and Robert De Niro in almost everything. As his determined, likeable wife, Jeanne Tripplehorn fares much better, delivering a very quietly intelligent performance (replete with a much more convincing accent).
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