"Stir of Echoes"

"The Sixth Sense" meets "the Shining".  This is a story about a young boy who sees and talks to dead people.  But guess what, he can't talk to adults about this because they don't believe.   When dad starts to see things he becomes a whole different person acting in a paranoid compulsive manner.  Don't worry he doesn't take to opening doors with an axe.  He tears up floors with a jack hammer.  Two things I really liked about this movie.  Kevin Bacon turns in a great performance of a man dealing with thoughts and visions that he can't ignore.   While much of the movie is shown from the traditional third person perspective,  a major portion of the movie is in the first person and the filmmakers do a great job of showing us what Kevin is seeing, hearing and experiencing.  Well worth experiencing.

Stephen Van Lydegraf

9/12/1999