This movie is still just as effective and creepy as it was when it came out over 25 years ago. It is perhaps the best Kevin Bacon-led horror we have gotten thus far.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 30, 2025

Stir of Echoes is an effective thriller that plays in the realm of supernatural horror. The script here is solid and filled with tense sequences that the direction brings to the screen beautifully to create a creepy atmosphere from fairly early on ...

| Dec 28, 2024

David Koepp's Stir of Echoes adaptation not only remains a gripping and chilling mystery, but also still one of Kevin Bacon's best performances.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 27, 2024

By today's standards the mystery itself isn't all that perplexing, but despite its predictable nature the film remains a masterclass in entertainment.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 13, 2024

Stir of Echoes is not scary in the traditional sense of the word, but it is haunting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2023

By no means does it trivialize its subjects of sexual assault, murder, guilt, and cover-ups. But it keeps in mind that it's a movie first and foremost, and its job is to entertain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2022

A thoughtful metaphysical chiller becomes a revenge movie, which ends up rehashing the old saw that this seemingly perfect neighborhood has a few skeletons.

| Original Score: C | Sep 2, 2022

Easily one of Bacon's best roles and a film that grabs your attention.

| Nov 6, 2020

As the plot kicks in, the hysteria mounts and the explanations start coming, the tension starts to dissipate. Like Bacon's strenuous attempt to sound working class, the movie tries too hard.

| Mar 6, 2018

...a stylish, sporadically gripping thriller that boasts a number of undeniably tense sequences and interludes...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 14, 2010

Stir Of Echoes is a scary, intelligent ghost story and thriller.

| Dec 10, 2007

[A] serious, atmospheric, character-driven supernatural drama.

| Dec 10, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

The skillful shock cuts will make you jump out of your skin, but it's the digital visualisation of the ghostly Samantha which really makes the flesh crawl.

| Jun 24, 2006

I did receive a few chills and some kicks from it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2006

It's nice to see he relied on more than heavy-handed filmmaking and a twist ending. I just hope audiences go for a supernatural thriller that's a little messier and doesn't feel the need to claw at their heart for two hours.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The cast is uniformly good, with Bacon giving the strongest performance as blue-collar Tom.

| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2003

Bacon's performance is what makes it more than just another dead-person-walking-the-earth story. Bacon is truly a man possessed.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

“Stir of Echoes” isn’t complex, nor is it shallow, it’s a delightful in-between.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2003