Echoes - voices from the intermediate world

Movie
German title	Echoes - voices from the intermediate world
Original title	Stir of Echoes
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1999
length	91 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	David Koepp
script	David Koepp
production	Judy Hofflund , Gavin Polone , Michele Weisler
music	James Newton Howard
camera	Fred Murphy
cut	Jill Savitt
occupation
Zachary David Cope : Jake Witzky Kevin Bacon : Tom Witzky Kathryn Erbe : Maggie Witzky Jennifer Morrison : Samantha Kozac Liza Weil : Debbie Kozac Illeana Douglas : Lisa Weil Kevin Dunn : Frank McCarthy Conor O'Farrell : Harry Damon Lusia Strus : Sheila McCarthy Stephen Eugene Walker : Bobby Mary Kay Cook : Vanessa Damon

Echoes - Stir of Echoes is a 1999 horror film from the United States starring Kevin Bacon . The screenplay was written based on the novel A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson .

action

It should be merely a harmless fun than Tom Witzky of his sister Lisa hypnotized can. But from this point on, nothing is the same as it used to be: Tom is plagued by brutal, terrible visions that initially make no sense to him: a broken fingernail, the shadowy face of a young woman, the suicide of a neighbor boy.

The more often the terrible pictures haunt him, the more the line between madness and reality blurs . But when the ghost of a girl appears at his home, he realizes the meaning of the voices from the intermediate world: only when he finds her buried corpse will the girl's soul be able to go to rest. But the girl's murderers, whom Tom is getting closer and closer to in his obsessive, psychic investigations, also pose a threat to his life. Because he finds out that his landlord and a friend of his walled up the girl in the basement of the house he was renting after her sons tried to rape the girl and she died because of their resistance.

Reviews

• Bob Graham wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that the film was more depressing than The Sixth Sense .
• James Berardinelli wrote on movie-reviews.colossus.net that the film works as a horror film . He praised the direction and the main characters.

"Clever story, coherent milieu, and played enthrallingly."

- TV movie

“A small, well-rounded thriller with horror elements, told in an extremely economical way. The familiar ordeal triggered by the main character's increasing obsession and the contrast to the down-to-earth milieu of the working-class district are skilfully incorporated into the plot. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

• Zachary David Cope was nominated for the Young Artist Award in 2000.
• The film won the International Horror Guild Award in 2000 .
• David Koepp won the Grand Prize of the Gérardmer Film Festival in 2000 .

background

• The film was for about 13 million US dollars rotated and played at the US box office about $ 21 million a.
• The melody that Tom Witzky can't get out of his head is from the Rolling Stones song Paint It Black , which was covered by the group Gob for the film .
• In 2007 a sequel was produced with Echoes 2 - Voices from the Intermediate World , a television film. Directed by Ernie Barbarash .

Web links

• Echoes - Voices from the intermediate world in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Echoes - voices from the intermediate world in the German dubbing index
• Echoes - Voices from the intermediate world in the online film database
• Echoes - Voices from the in-between world at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• Echoes - Voices from the intermediate world at Metacritic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bacon Thriller 'Echoes' Willis Hit - Hypnotized dad sees the dead, gets wiggy，San Francisco Chronicle， September 10, 1999
2. ↑ reelviews.net
3. ↑ Echoes - Voices from the Intermediate World on tvspielfilm.de , accessed on November 30, 2011
4. ↑ Echoes - Voices from the Intermediate World in the Lexicon of International Films