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Universal acclaim- based on 21 Ratings

  • Starring: Kevin Bacon
  • Summary: After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law (Douglas) at a party, Chicago telephone lineman Tom Witzkey (Bacon) begins to see haunting visions of a murdered girl's ghost and struggles with his sanity when he realizes that he now has the power to see spirits.
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  1. Positive: 23 out of 30
  2. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Stir of Echoes is much more down and dirty (than "The Sixth Sense"), and the thrills are more visceral.
  2. Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    80
    It certainly has a place among the year's more accomplished productions.
  3. Reviewed by: M. V. Moorhead
    80
    The scares early on are potent and get Stir of Echoes off to a chilly horror-movie start.
  4. 60
    Compared with ("The Sixth Sense"), there's no contest. Stir of Echoes has been outrun and outclassed.

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Kevin Bacon give us a great performance Expand
  2. 9
    A 9 in its genre! The producers were somehow unlucky for, as many people have already observed, this movie was released a few weeks after Sixth Sense, which was unfortunate... because people were still talking about the latter. Quite frankly, I think this film is better than The Sixth Sense. It is definitely more frightening, more intense, and much more enjoyable than the other latter one...and Kevin Bacon is of course much, much better actor than Bruce Willis...Kevin is an A and Willis oh well a... B-? Anyway...my purpose is not criticising Willis, there I am going off track, but I merely wanted to share my views about the movie. In a few words: It is a classic! Eerie atmosphere, smart plot, good performances, gripping, believable...and well...you may have a situation like that just next door! ;) If you haven't watch it before, you should definitely do it. Think about this: This movie has no negative reviews, isn't that a great sign? Expand

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