Stir of Echoes
"In Every Mind, There is a Door That Has Never Been Opened."
Features: Widescreen, English, Subtitled, Spanish
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 intensify, Tom realizes they are a piece of the puzzle, echoes of a crime crying out to be solved. But when his otherworldly 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 least 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 the spirit to rest.
"...more down and dirty (than "The Sixth Sense"), and the thrills are more visceral." Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
"...rivetingly haunting." Christine James, Box Office Magazine
"...packs a spooky wallop..." Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"...strap yourselves in for the spookiest, most imaginative hypnosis scene in movie memory. You are getting...very...scared." Richard Corliss, Time
"...a canny piece of mature filmmaking..." Wesley Morris, San Francisco Examiner
Editor's Note
Chicago telephone lineman Tom Witzkey (Bacon) is hypnotized at a party by his sister-in-law (Douglas) and begins seeing the ghost of a neighborhood girl murdered years before. He comes to the discovery that he is a Receiver--one who is able to see spirits. Now in possession of knowledge he never wanted to know, Tom struggles through his daily existence plagued by these newly-acquired supernatural visions while attempting to retain his sanity.
Features Audio Commentary
Audio: English DD-EX 5.1 Surround Sound, DTS HD Stereo
Deleted Scenes
Featurette: Sight Of Spirits - Channeling The Paranormal
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Subtitles: English, Spanish
This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound
Technical Info
Release Information
Studio: Lions Gate
Release Date: 1/8/2008
Running Time: 94 minutes
Original Release Date: 1999
Catalog ID: 20347
UPC: 00012236203476
Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
Video: Color
Aspect Ratio
Widescreen 2.35:1
Cast & Crew Illeana Douglas
Kathryn Erbe
Kevin Bacon
Zachary David Cope
David Koepp - Director
David Koepp - Screenplay
David W. Krummel - Art Director
Fred Murphy - Cinematographer
James Newton Howard - Original Music By
Jill Savitt - Editor
Judy Hoffland - Producer
Michele Weisler - Executive Producer
Nelson Coates - Production Designer
Richard Matheson - Based On Novel By
Features: Widescreen, English, Subtitled, Spanish
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 intensify, Tom realizes they are a piece of the puzzle, echoes of a crime crying out to be solved. But when his otherworldly 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 least 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 the spirit to rest.
"...more down and dirty (than "The Sixth Sense"), and the thrills are more visceral." Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
"...rivetingly haunting." Christine James, Box Office Magazine
"...packs a spooky wallop..." Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"...strap yourselves in for the spookiest, most imaginative hypnosis scene in movie memory. You are getting...very...scared." Richard Corliss, Time
"...a canny piece of mature filmmaking..." Wesley Morris, San Francisco Examiner
Editor's Note
Chicago telephone lineman Tom Witzkey (Bacon) is hypnotized at a party by his sister-in-law (Douglas) and begins seeing the ghost of a neighborhood girl murdered years before. He comes to the discovery that he is a Receiver--one who is able to see spirits. Now in possession of knowledge he never wanted to know, Tom struggles through his daily existence plagued by these newly-acquired supernatural visions while attempting to retain his sanity.
Features Audio Commentary
Audio: English DD-EX 5.1 Surround Sound, DTS HD Stereo
Deleted Scenes
Featurette: Sight Of Spirits - Channeling The Paranormal
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Subtitles: English, Spanish
This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound
Technical Info
Release Information
Studio: Lions Gate
Release Date: 1/8/2008
Running Time: 94 minutes
Original Release Date: 1999
Catalog ID: 20347
UPC: 00012236203476
Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
Video: Color
Aspect Ratio
Widescreen 2.35:1
Cast & Crew Illeana Douglas
Kathryn Erbe
Kevin Bacon
Zachary David Cope
David Koepp - Director
David Koepp - Screenplay
David W. Krummel - Art Director
Fred Murphy - Cinematographer
James Newton Howard - Original Music By
Jill Savitt - Editor
Judy Hoffland - Producer
Michele Weisler - Executive Producer
Nelson Coates - Production Designer
Richard Matheson - Based On Novel By
Lions Gate
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Review
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
"Stir of Echoes" is a supernatural thriller firmly rooted in a blue-collar Chicago neighborhood, where everyone on the block knows one another--although not as well as they think. Kevin Bacon stars in one of his best performances, as a telephone lineman named Tom Witzky, who plays in a band, wants to break out of the routine of his life and succeeds all too successfully...Kevin Bacon is sometimes able to suggest characters who are being driven mad by themselves. Here he implodes in a role where that's the right choice; another actor might have reached too far. Kathryn Erbe is not merely worried, but also exasperated by her husband, which is the right realistic touch, and Illeana Douglas plays the kind of sister-in-law who takes what you like in your wife and carries it too far...Fred Murphy's photography places these people in the real world, and there is one shot that's a stunner, starting with the lineman up on a pole making a call, and then pulling back until we see a vast Chicago River vista and no less than three L trains at the same time. - Roger Ebert
"Stir of Echoes" is a supernatural thriller firmly rooted in a blue-collar Chicago neighborhood, where everyone on the block knows one another--although not as well as they think. Kevin Bacon stars in one of his best performances, as a telephone lineman named Tom Witzky, who plays in a band, wants to break out of the routine of his life and succeeds all too successfully...Kevin Bacon is sometimes able to suggest characters who are being driven mad by themselves. Here he implodes in a role where that's the right choice; another actor might have reached too far. Kathryn Erbe is not merely worried, but also exasperated by her husband, which is the right realistic touch, and Illeana Douglas plays the kind of sister-in-law who takes what you like in your wife and carries it too far...Fred Murphy's photography places these people in the real world, and there is one shot that's a stunner, starting with the lineman up on a pole making a call, and then pulling back until we see a vast Chicago River vista and no less than three L trains at the same time. - Roger Ebert
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