Stir of Echoes (1999)

	Also Known As: Hypnose
	Year of first release: 1999
	Director: David Koepp (Secret Window, writer of Jurassik Park, Mission Impossible, Spider-man)
	Actors: Kevin Bacon (Friday 13th, Death Sentence, Hollow Man, X-men first class), Zachary David Cope, Kathryn Erbe, Kevin Dunn (Transformers 1-3)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Horror, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 18.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Tom is working for a telephone company and is hoping for a better life for him and his wife and son. Although sceptical, he gets hypnotised at a party and then starts to have surnatural experiences.
Review: The movie is as good as I remembered from when I first saw it more than ten years ago, except that this time I already knew the ending. Kevin Bacon delivers a great performance, mandatory for a movie that revolves completely around him and his growing obsession. The tension progressively builts up and there are some frightening moments, but Stir of Echoes cleverly avoids the easy jump-scares so common in most recent horror movies. It is interesting that this movie has been using codes of the asian horror movies long before it became a fashion (ghost with long dark hair, teeth, nails, filming in reverse...) and that some good ideas have been re-used in other films, like Sixth Sense. The French Blu-ray comes in a nice all-black case, the image quality is good and the surround sound used as it should be in a haunted house movie.
Rating: 8 /10