Thought it would be scarier but it got me intrigued. Kevin bacon strained his neck digging all those holes. His wife in the movie was pretty hot.

Nothing about this movie screams 90s, it looks like it could have come out in 2005.
A super 90s movie would be Scream.
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It's not a badly made film, it's just pretty dated at this point. The clothes, the music, the pacing, the camera work, etc is all very 90s. It reminds you what decade it was made in during just about every scene. I've seen much worse horror movies of course, but considering how good the source material is this should have been better, yeah.
Even the acting from Kevin Bacon, which I see getting a lot of accolades on this board, seemed pretty pedestrian to me. Most of the actors seem to just be sleepwalking through their roles, and the colors of the film seem to be made ugly on purpose for some reason. The movie isn't a gory/grimey type horror movie, so that was a weird choice I thought.

I thought it was a nice movie. Really enjoyed it.
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The Sixth Sense meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets every other genre cliche in the book.
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I disagree, the movie is one of my favourites. It's shot well and the acting is great. It's a simple plot and gets me freaked every time I watch it. Not to mention Newton Howard's score is bloody haunting and freaks me out.
Compared to crappy Hollywood movies these days, echoes rules so hard.

I love 'Stir of Echoes!'

It's just a film, get over it. I liked it, it was entertaining. Not every movie produced is Shindler's List.

I agree about the digging! I was getting downright exhausted and wanted Kevin to take a shower so bad

Yeah, it was pretty predictable, cliche, and conventional. And the digging enough with all the digging! We get it already! I'm surprised that it received any good reviews.

I find the film watchable, but it just doesn't jell for me.
The 'all-knowing' little kid character was annoying and poorly handled, IMHO.
Some of the dialogue/attitudes portrayed are somewhathmmmmcartoonish (?) and a bit ham-fisted.
Editing off in places.
Too bad they couldn't do better with Matheson's material.
But, as I said, I find it watchable.
And, it has a cool jump scare and the 'theater' scenes are done wickedly well ~
"There's a band playing on the radio ~ With a rhythm of rhyming guitars"

It's nice to know you're the reigning authority on movie quality.

Hell, I loved it.

There is a difference between a film being cheap and looking cheap. A good film can override these apparent obstacles with good scripting and performances. This film failed to do so. The script was cliched and the dialogue was utterly pathetic and I would question the intelligence of anyone unable to see that glaringly obvious fact.

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A movie has to have an expensive look to it?
What made the script bad?