![]() So when a ghost starts silently appearing to him with a mission, he's believably eager to shut everything else out - including his family - and throw himself fully into the investigation. Overshadowed at the American box office by The Sixth Sense, which spins off from a similar premise, this quietly creepy adaptation of a Richard Matheson novel. One month after Sixth Sense entered pop culture canon, the Kevin Bacon vehicle Echoes was pushed into theaters, and immediately rejected by audiences for its startling similarities, even though it’s based on a novel from 1958. Tom Witzky loves his wife and child, but can't help wishing he'd managed something more with his life. Stir of Echoes is the perfect example of a release date blunder. It's another effortless Bacon performance, sidestepping all the usual horror/thriller clichés to slip into a reasonably happy, if not always contented, blue-collar family man. Think Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window - a man slowly becoming obsessed with solving a crime that no-one else even believes took place - and you've got a fair sense of what he's aiming at here. Mint condition, only used in my home.Comes with original labeled box. Slotting in as the kind of troubled everyman Old Hitch loved is Kevin Bacon. I was amazed because I could not spend the for a Voodoo Labs unit, plus they are very heavy. Awesome Stir of Echoes delay pedal by Lovepedal Custom Effects. Each stompbox comes in a rugged, diecast aluminum case that measures 1 1/2' x 3 5/8' x 1 1/4'. ![]() It's just that this time round the Maguffin means the chief witness is also the victim. If this describes your plight (it certainly does mine), you’ll welcome the new line of ultra-compact effects designed by Lovepedal’s Sean Michael. Where M Night Shyamalan's goosebump-raising crowd-pleaser was a fairly straight ghost story with a plot triple-salchow thrown in at the end, David Koepp's film plumps for a creepy whodunnit plot line that makes it much more of a Hitchcockian shocker than an out-and-out spook flick.
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