Automobile taillights freak him, and so do a police squad car's flashing signal and neon signs. Images come to him during lovemaking with his wife, and they are not sex fantasies. What happens next will take care of that.Ī well-meaning but witchy friend who dabbles in the psychic (Illeana Douglas) hypnotizes him at a party. "I just didn't expect to be so ordinary," he says. In the Willis film, the 9-year- old boy gravely looks at the psychiatrist and says, "I see dead people." In the blue-collar "Stir of Echoes," the 5-year-old boy looks at the camera with a level gaze and asks us, "Does it hurt to be dead?"īacon plays the boy's father, Tom, a utility company lineman in Chicago who is beginning to realize that life has passed him by. It's also more fun, in a hokey, over-the-top way, while the classy, somber "The Sixth Sense" makes no pretense of going that route. "Stir of Echoes" is much more down and dirty, and the thrills are more visceral. It doesn't take a sixth sense to see the resemblances between the Bruce Willis sleeper hit and the ghost thriller "Stir of Echoes" starring Kevin Bacon - both feature boys who see the dead, for starters.īut don't push the similarities too far, including the one where the temperature drops when ghosts are present and we can see people's breath.
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