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Stir of echoes movie review7/27/2023 ![]() So when a ghost starts silently appearing to him with a mission, he's believably eager to shut everything else out - including his family - and throw himself fully into the investigation. Koepp is perhaps better known for co-writing blockbusters like Mission: Impossible, as well as thrillers Panic Room and Snake Eyes, but this 1999 thriller is worth a rewatch for its masterful. Tom Witzky loves his wife and child, but can't help wishing he'd managed something more with his life. It's another effortless Bacon performance, sidestepping all the usual horror/thriller clichés to slip into a reasonably happy, if not always contented, blue-collar family man. Think Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window - a man slowly becoming obsessed with solving a crime that no-one else even believes took place - and you've got a fair sense of what he's aiming at here. ![]() There are moments of chilling terror, especially when Tom and his son start sharing the same visions. Slotting in as the kind of troubled everyman Old Hitch loved is Kevin Bacon. Make no mistake, this film isn’t cheese, even if it does stir too many echoes. It's just that this time round the Maguffin means the chief witness is also the victim. But this new found ability turns against him when he. Where M Night Shyamalan's goosebump-raising crowd-pleaser was a fairly straight ghost story with a plot triple-salchow thrown in at the end, David Koepp's film plumps for a creepy whodunnit plot line that makes it much more of a Hitchcockian shocker than an out-and-out spook flick. After being hypnotized by his flaky sister-in-law at a party, Tom is left with a subconscious power - ESP.
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