Horror 101 – Episode 103: Stir of Echoes

Some doors weren’t meant to be opened.

Happy Halloween, my friends! Continuing our haunted theme, we’re focusing on a late 90s supernatural thriller which is based off the works of Richard Matheson. After Tom (Kevin Bacon) is hypnotized at a party his world is turned upside down as a restless spirit begins terrorizing him, using his newly opened mind to help solve a murder mystery. Join us this October 31st as we give the Horror 101 treatment to David Koepp’s Stir of Echoes.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

01:00 Prelude to terror…
04:00 No Cult Sensation this time…
06:00 Kevin Bacon returns to horror…
11:15 The Son that Shines…
13:00 Hypnotized…
16:30 The Couch Scare…
18:30 The Babysitter…
23:46 Neil, the Psychic…
26:00 Similar to Changeling and 6th Sense…
28:20 “I’m supposed to dig.”
33:20 Unearthing the Tomb…
36:25 Scoring the film…
42:09 Conclusion! Happy Halloween!

Stir of Echoes (1999)

Directed by: David Koepp
Based of the Novel by: Richard Matheson
Screenplay by: David Koepp

Starring: Kevin Bacon as Tom
Zachary David Cope As Jake
Kathryn Erbe as Maggie
Illeana Douglas as Lisa
Mary Kay Cook as Vanessa
Jennifer Morrison as Samantha

Fred Murphy … director of photography

All video, pictures and audio used from Stir of Echoes is copyright © 1999 by Artisan Entertainment. Used for educational purposes. No reproductions of any kind.