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Stir of Echoes
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67 out of 100

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8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 19 Ratings

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  • 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.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    100
    Stir of Echoes is much more down and dirty (than "The Sixth Sense"), and the thrills are more visceral.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    90
    There's visceral horror, too, including a grisly image -- a horror-in-miniature involving a fingernail -- that located an open nerve in my jaded ability to endure screen violence.
  3. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    60
    Compared with ("The Sixth Sense"), there's no contest. Stir of Echoes has been outrun and outclassed.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. RegOz
    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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