Twenty-five years ago, this acclaimed supernatural thriller was overshadowed at the box office by The Sixth Sense. Does it still hold up after all this time?
If you watched one movie about someone who saw dead people in the summer of 1999, then it was probably The Sixth Sense. M. Night Shyamalan — who directed this summer’s divisive thriller, Trap — rode The Sixth Sense to the top of the box office as it became a blockbuster and eventually earned six Oscar nominations.
Recommended Videos Kevin Bacon delivers a great performance Considering that Kevin Bacon has been acting professionally since 1977, he’s got a remarkably high percentage of good films to his credit. Stir of Echoes may be underrated, but it’s also got one of Bacon’s best performances as everyman Tom Witzky. Aside from the fact that his son, Jake , can already perceive the dead at the beginning of the story, Tom is about as normal as it gets.
It’s a genuinely creepy ghost story One of the common threads between this movie and The Sixth Sense is that the dead have unfinished business on Earth, and they won’t rest until someone takes care of it for them. The thing that separates Stir of Echoes from Shyamalan’s film is that the ghosts really feel like they don’t belong in this world.
Stir of Echoes also works as a crime thriller It would be too big of a spoiler to explain why Samantha’s spirit is so restless, but we can say that a heinous crime was committed against her. That forces Tom to play amateur detective as he has to figure out what happened to Samantha, and why his neighbors are so eager to see her case swept under the rug.
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