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Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Zachary David Cope, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn, Liza Weil, Christian Stolte, Jennifer Morrison, Lusia Strus, Mike Bacarella (mehr)Streaming (1)
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Der Familienvater Tom Witzky glaubt nicht an übernatürlichen Hokuspokus. Darum lässt er sich auch spaßhalber auf einem Familienfest von seiner Schwägerin hypnotisieren. Er fällt in einen tiefen Trancezustand und fortan ist nichts mehr so wie vorher. Die Hypnose hat seinem Bewusstsein das Tor in eine andere Dimension geöffnet und er wird von schrecklichen Visionen heimgesucht. Allmählich verschmelzen Realität und Wahn miteinander und als ihm eines Tages der Geist eines toten Mädchens erscheint, macht er es sich zur Aufgabe ihren grausamen Mörder zu finden. Doch der ist ihm schon längst auf den Fersen… (ATV2)
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Eine leicht überdurchschnittliche Geistergeschichte mit nicht besonders berauschenden schauspielerischen Leistungen und einer nicht besonders intelligenten Pointe. Aber alle Komponenten sind voll funktionsfähig und frei von peinlichem Blödsinn, was Echoes - Stimmen aus der Zwischenwelt sehr unterhaltsam macht.
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Kevin Bacon sieht tote Menschen, die von ihm etwas wollen. Was? Das muss er herausfinden, bevor er völlig verrückt wird… Ich wundere mich, dass ich Echoes – Stimmen aus der Zwischenwelt erst heute zum ersten Mal gesehen habe. In diesem Film findet man alles, was ein richtiger Horrorfilm haben sollte. Toll ist vor allem die Stimmung, die das Publikum von der ersten bis zur letzten Minute nicht aufatmen lässt. Wenn man Kevin Bacon beobachtet, der immer verrückter wird (und um sich tritt), muss man an Richard Dreyfuss und seine Leistung im Film Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art denken. Der Junge ist unheimlich, die Szenen mit der Hypnose sind auch sehr gut. Außerdem liegt das "etwas“ ständig in der Luft. Echoes – Stimmen aus der Zwischenwelt könnte man z. B. mit The Gift - Die dunkle Gabe vergleichen, obwohl der erstgenannte Film viel intensiver ist. David Koepp, hätten Sie nicht Lust, wieder ein Werk von King zu verfilmen?
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Nice ghost story. As a horror experience, it’s not very intense, it’s barely scary, actually, but it was nice to watch nevertheless. If only that ending wasn’t so traditional, but maybe the 10 years that have passed since this film came out are to blame for that. I reckon that a film like this today would get about 60%, and mainly thanks to Kevin Bacon’s great performance.
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I had high expectations, enticed by glowing reviews and high ratings, and if not for that, I might have been more satisfied. Stir of Echoes is a genre average that neither offends nor excites, whether it's the script, casting, acting performances, or directorial work. The ending is quite predictable, and the beginning with the child motif seemed more promising than the actual development and resolution. At times, I felt obvious inspiration from other famous films, for instance, the black character in the park reminded me of a figure from Kubrick's The Shining. Overall impression: 55%.
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A purely made-for-TV affair with a ghost in a mirror, ghost on a couch, speaking to the ghost in the dark, some mysterious murder, a mentally unstable father, hypnotism, gentle piano music to enhance the atmosphere, an old single-story apartment in a quiet neighborhood, and many other typical and exhausted attributes thrown at us by the unfamiliar David Koepp. He does have an ace up his sleeve in the excellent Kevin Bacon, but otherwise, this piece falls more into the average category. It cannot be compared qualitatively with The Sixth Sense, as Echoes of the Dead draws precisely from that. There is a plethora of situations that we have already seen somewhere before. And even the final twist doesn't strike me as original. If there is a layer of dust in the cover of the video rental store, don’t be surprised.
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This ghost thriller made a very good impression on me, both with the imaginative execution, which makes sense and leaves no holes uncovered, or the actors, led by my favourite Bacon, who do an amazing job. Although the premise looks very similar to The Sixth Sense, the final form is diametrically opposed. Stir of Echoes doesn't rely so much on the supernatural, but on quite realistic solutions to the rather strange and mysterious things our heroes are subjected to, and ultimately feels more like a suspenseful mystery drama than a true horror film. But that doesn't change the fact that David Koepp has done a great job and his contributions to the endless series of ghost films are among the best ever.
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Stir of Echoes very much resembles a Stephen King thriller with horror elements, regardless of its striking similarity to The Shining (and The Sixth Sense from the same year), so in retrospect it makes sense that Koepp got the opportunity to direct an adaptation of King’s Secret Window a few years later. The story is actually trivial, unlike the narrative structure, which intentionally throws viewers into a state of confusion as to how the main protagonist feels as he has newly gained psychic abilities. All the way up to the climax, it is unclear which of his visions are echoes of the past, which are glimpses of the future, why the ghost appears to him and what it wants from him. The film has a solid atmosphere and it is sufficiently effective as a ghost story, and everything in it fits together nicely. The hypnotic scene with an empty cinema is excellent. Nevertheless, everything revolving around the topic of a gradually deepening marital crisis comes across as artificial and contrived. As time passes, the lapses in logic pile up and some promising motifs are only hinted at and remain unused. Like the work with suspense, the actors are not particularly dazzling. Seen 25 years after its release, Stir of Echoes has aged only minimally in the intervening years.
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I mean, a pretty massive disappointment. There's absolutely no scary atmosphere, the acting ensemble is mediocre to the point of being painful, and on top of that Koepp rips off a lot of stuff like the biggest B-movie ever. I’m not only taking into account the unoriginal script, or for example the jerky movement of the (not to mention absolutely useless) girl's ghost in one scene, which we could have seen in Gothika or The Grudge (ugh, and there it was very... unpleasantly handled), but when he uses the eight-hundred-year-old jump scare with the closing mirror, you can’t keep from rolling your eyes. It's not a bad film on the whole, maybe the two scenes of hypnosis or the hero's dream about the neighbors were very evocative, but otherwise not really much. More like 2 and a half stars. PS: I saw Secret Window about a year ago, and only now I feel disappointment at how the director is ripping himself off in it... ah well :-(
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