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] serious, atmospheric, character-driven supernatural drama.

| Dec 10, 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

Ultimately, it is Bacon's blue-collar conflict that resonates.

| Dec 2, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Second-time director David Koepp steers clear of silly pyrotechnics and empty show as he anchors his supernatural thriller in Tom's daily rituals, employing the racket of city life and intelligent sound edits to crank up the tension.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2001

When Stir of Echoes is focused on the supernatural, it is a scary and technically superior film. However, as it turns into a conventional thriller it becomes ordinary.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Koepp keeps Stir of Echoes stirring for a good hour or so but is unable to sustain the mood throughout.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Stir of Echoes is studded with potent fright scenes and built on a rock-solid performance by the ever - dependable Kevin Bacon.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Stir of Echoes gives a classic ghost story extra zip by insisting on the reality of the characters and their place.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Koepp has made an interesting but irrelevant parallel between the otherworld and movies.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The first two-thirds of the movie is engagingly spooky, more so than The Sixth Sense.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The real skill Koepp shows is that he grounds the scary stuff in a believable reality and delivers a ghost story that doesn't lose its grip after the spirits have unambiguously been made manifest.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It has enough smarts to scare us, Sixth Sense or not.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Stir of Echoes is much more down and dirty, and the thrills are more visceral.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Stir of Echoes falls flat during its final third when more prosaic issues of homicide and revenge enter into the story, but right up to that point it manages to sink its chilly fingers deep in the meat of your mind.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The more we know, the less we care.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Stir of Echoes might have worked just fine a few decades ago, but it now seems too simply schematic to spook us as much as it wants to.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Stir of Echoes is a canny piece of mature filmmaking that never recovers from a nervous breakdown it suffers halfway through.

| Jan 1, 2000

It offers a stir of an echo of horror, rather than the genuine cathartic article.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 1, 2000