#Stir of echoes 3 movie#

I don’t know why but Jake’s ability to see and communicate with the dead seriously reminded me of The Shining. The acting from just about everyone in the film is actually solid. I thought Kevin Bacon was really great as Tom and portrayed his insomnia and obsessive behaviour very convincingly. The idea of someone getting hypnotized which “opens doors” within their mind leaving them susceptible to supernatural happenings is one that has a lot of potential. In the traditional sense, Stir Of Echoes is a very good horror/thriller.

#Stir of echoes 3 movie#

What will Tom do now that he has discovered Samantha’s body and has learned the details of her gruesome murder? Give the film a watch to find out!īefore actually watching Stir Of Echoes yet knowing the premise, you might believe that it’s going to be a very similar movie to The Sixth Sense and in some minor ways it is but overall it’s basically completely different. When she resisted, they unintentionally suffocated her and hid her body. He receives a vision showing him that before his family moved in, Adam and Kurt lured Samantha into the house to rape her. While Maggie and Jake attend her grandmother’s wake at a relative’s house, Tom inadvertently knocks down a shoddy brick wall in the basement and discovers Samantha’s decomposed remains wrapped in a plastic sheet. Tom accepts his quest and begins digging holes in the backyard and eventually tears up the house in a desperate attempt to appease his addiction to dig. He goes back to Lisa demanding she undo what she did, but when she hypnotizes him he is told by the spirit to dig. As predicted, Samantha begins plaguing Tom, eventually leading to his insomnia. Maggie hides her conversation with Neil from Tom and goes to the meeting herself where Neil tells her the spirit that contacted Tom has asked for something and will continue to get upset if it does not get done. During a walk through a graveyard, Jake and Maggie encounter a funeral where Chicago policemen are saluting in a ceremony here a policeman named Neil immediately recognizes Jake’s unique talent and invites Tom to a private gathering of like-minded people to learn more about what is happening to his son. This attracts the attention of his landlord, Tom’s friend, Frank McCarthy (Kevin Dunn) and their respective sons Kurt and Adam, who all dismiss Samantha as a runaway teen. Tom becomes obsessed with Samantha and begins questioning members of the community about her disappearance. Tom denies knowing her to Debbie, but admits to Maggie that she is the girl in his visions. When Tom and Maggie confront her, Debbie angrily questions them about her Sister Samantha, explaining that she had an intellectual disability: having the mental capacity of an 8 year-old, a child’s tendency to trust strangers. Tom then sees strange flashes of red light that eventually leads him to the station where Debbie is speaking with her mother about Jake. Meanwhile, Tom gets a sense that Jake is in danger and rushes home but finds him gone. Debbie gets upset and snatches Jake, running off with him in the night. While Tom and Maggie attend a high school football game, Jake is overheard by his babysitter, Debbie Kozac (Liza Weil), as he speaks with a ghost named Samantha. At a party one evening, Tom challenges Maggie’s sister Lisa (Illeana Douglas), a believer in paranormal activity and psychic telepathy, to hypnotize him.Īfter putting him under, Lisa plants a post-hypnotic suggestion in Tom urging him to “be more open-minded.” Tom then begins experiencing visions of a violent scuffle involving a girl who he later learns is Samantha Kozac (Jennifer Morrison), a 17 year-old that disappeared from the neighbourhood six months ago. It immediately becomes clear that Jake possesses the ability to commune with the dead. Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is a repairman living in a working-class neighbourhood with his pregnant wife Maggie (Kathryn Erbe) and his son Jake (Zachary David Cope). Let’s have a look at the film and see if it’s deserving of such praise… There are certainly people out there that believe had Stir Of Echoes not released so closely to The Sixth Sense then it too would be revered. Less than a month after the release of The Sixth Sense, a movie with a similar premise was released but it was called Stir Of Echoes. That film went on to be the second highest grossing film of 1999 just behind Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and was highly praised by critics and general moviegoers alike. If I were to describe a movie in which a young boy has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts, you’d more than likely immediately think of The Sixth Sense.