Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is a blue-collar worker, a family man, the most ordinary guy in the world...who is about to be plunged into a shattering encounter with another world. And it doesn't matter that Tom doesn't believe in the supernatural. Because something supernatural has started to believe in Tom. After he is hypnotized at a neighborhood party, Tom changes. He sees things he can't explain and hears voices he can't ignore. As the horrific visions intensfy, Tom realizes they are pieces of a puzzle, echoes of a crime calling out to be solved. But when his other-worldly nightmares begin coming true, Tom wants out. He desperately tries to rid himself of his eerie, unwanted powers - only to be seized by an irresistible compulsion to dig deeper and deeper into the mystery that is consuming his life. When at last he unearths the truth, it will draw him into the long-buried secret of a ghastly crime, a vengeful spirit... and the lethal price of laying that spirit to rest.
Tom and Maggie Witzky (Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Erbe) go to what looks like a block party. There, Tom is challenged to prove hypnosis is bunk. They get more than they bargained for when the hypnotizer, Lisa Weil (Illeana Douglas), leaves a post-hypnotic suggestion that Tom should “open his mind”; boy, does he open it, and so do we.
This film has some well-defined characters, and the actors do not outshine their parts. The film is worth watching and watching over again. However, there is nothing exceptional about the storyline or details. Most of the presentations are predictable, but still interesting to see how it is played out. The film renders itself well to Blu-ray and the big screen.
This looks like a pilot for a series. Oh no, there is a “Stir of Echoes (1999).”
“Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming” (2007). But they dumped Kevin.
See Keven in his element, “Tremors” (1990).
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Book-to-Screen Horror
Published by Ashly Moore Sheldon • September 29, 2024
It's almost October! And that means it's time to double down on book-to-screen horror—meaning read the books and watch the adaptations. Here are seventeen frightfully good horror novels that have been adapted to the screen.
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