But then horror movies really never are. Sure there's a couple popular ones, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, if you can call those two scary (though they're both superb films), and The Shining, probably one of the scariest movies ever made. Sorry for digressing. Stir of Echoes really wasn't that bad at all. It falls into that forsaken category of mid to late nineties where movies were either big hits or they weren't anything at all. Well, lot's of good films fell through society's very loose grip on good taste, so to speak.
Coming back to the point, Stir of Echoes really was a good movies. It was scary at points, had good lighting and sets, good visual effects, and at points, was pretty scary. The plot was also very entertaining. It's more than just the average hanted house movie where wierd things start happening and people die for no reason, it's really more of a mystery. It's really about a missing girl and the people who try to solve the mystery of her death. The afformentioned scary parts were the parts where the missing girl's ghost was visible as she stalked around the house. It was very neat the way that they filmed her. She seemed to shake, almost vibrate, like she's fighting to be there or something, and it ends up being a very interesting effect. Altogether, it wasn't completely scary. It was interesting. It showed the lifestyle of an average blue-collar family in urban Chicago, not really urban urban, but more likt suburban urban, a little in between. The lighting in the movie was very dismal and dark, not like depressing and frightening in Silence of the Lambs or Se7en, but like more of a Chicago Spring setting. Very cool. Good lighting really makes or brakes a movie. Consider the ill-fated Manhunter movie, by director Michael Mann. The entire movie looked like it was made by the beach boys, it was so bright (except for a few scenes, which were darkly lit, to my great pleasure). It's more famous successor was the opposite. It had that wonderful autumn element that made it all the more scarier. Sorry, for once again digressing.
But in summary, this movie really was good. It had great acting, mostly from the talented Kevin Bacon, and a great supporting cast. The ending was excellent and complemented the great plot. All together:
My Rating: 8/10
Coming back to the point, Stir of Echoes really was a good movies. It was scary at points, had good lighting and sets, good visual effects, and at points, was pretty scary. The plot was also very entertaining. It's more than just the average hanted house movie where wierd things start happening and people die for no reason, it's really more of a mystery. It's really about a missing girl and the people who try to solve the mystery of her death. The afformentioned scary parts were the parts where the missing girl's ghost was visible as she stalked around the house. It was very neat the way that they filmed her. She seemed to shake, almost vibrate, like she's fighting to be there or something, and it ends up being a very interesting effect. Altogether, it wasn't completely scary. It was interesting. It showed the lifestyle of an average blue-collar family in urban Chicago, not really urban urban, but more likt suburban urban, a little in between. The lighting in the movie was very dismal and dark, not like depressing and frightening in Silence of the Lambs or Se7en, but like more of a Chicago Spring setting. Very cool. Good lighting really makes or brakes a movie. Consider the ill-fated Manhunter movie, by director Michael Mann. The entire movie looked like it was made by the beach boys, it was so bright (except for a few scenes, which were darkly lit, to my great pleasure). It's more famous successor was the opposite. It had that wonderful autumn element that made it all the more scarier. Sorry, for once again digressing.
But in summary, this movie really was good. It had great acting, mostly from the talented Kevin Bacon, and a great supporting cast. The ending was excellent and complemented the great plot. All together:
My Rating: 8/10