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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

FRIDAY:
Stir of Echoes BBC 1
The Triple Echo BBC 2

SATURDAY:
Undisputed BBC 1
The Man Who Never Was BBC 2
Hell in the Pacific BBC 2
I Walked With a Zombie BBC 2
Carry on Screaming CH 4
Entrapment CH 4
Creep CH 4
The Zodiac CH 4
Kelly's Heroes CH 5
Batman CH 5

SUNDAY:
The Affair of the Neclace BBC 1
Night of the Demon BBC 2
Stardust ITV
House of Fying Daggers CH 4
Mr Nice Guy CH 4
Paheli CH 4
Big Daddy CH 5
Spy Game CH 5

House of Flying Daggers looks good too and I'll probably watch that anyway but Sta I think it is your turn bud to pick one

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big aundy · Site Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 4066 Location: scotland

think we'll go with stir of echoes ,

but i will tape the zodiac as i really want to see this .
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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

Grand stuff Stir Of Echoes it is mate
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 8906

Yay! It looks a cool film

Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 8906

Stir of Echoes

The Witzky's, Tom, Maggie and their son Jake, live a fairly normal life in Chicago in the late 90s. Tom feels that he should be making more of his life but they're a happily married couple with a bright young son.......but what the parents don't know is that Jake can see dead people (cue a Sixth Sense reference!), or to be more precise, he sees and talks to an invisible presence called Samantha.

Tom and Maggie go to a party where Maggie's sister, who's a trainee hypnotherapist, offers to hypnotise a sceptical Tom. It turns out he's one of the 8% of people who responds well to hynotism.........and he later starts having hallucinations of a ghostly young woman, along with premonitions of the future. As the hallucinations overwhelm him he seems on the verge of madness as he tries to find out what happened to the woman and who she is.

It's a chilling but classy film adaptation of Richard Matheson's book with the setting switched from 50s California to 90s Chicago. The writer/director, David Koepp, contrasts the Witzky's seemingly ordinary life with flashes of horror that keep you gripped right till the end. The images of the ghostly Samantha are well done and add to the chilling feel of the movie.

Good cast with Kevin Bacon his useful brilliant self as Tom Witzky and with good support from Katherine Erbe as Maggie, Zachary David Cope as their son Jake and Illeana Douglas as the wacky, pot smoking hypnotist.

Good film but I couldn't get why Tom was thirsty all the time? I thought too that the ending was left open so there could have been a sequel?

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

Great review babe

I done a very silly thing yesterday

I deleted my Stir of Echoes recording by accident

I should be able to download it though over the weekend but it means my review will be late again ....sorry!!
I will definitely put it up though when I get watching it

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big aundy · Site Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 4066 Location: scotland

, well doen mate , me and wife are getting a dvd this saturday , not sure what one yet .
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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

Its not funny Sta

On a dvd recorder with hard drive there is a menu that you can do certain things with recordings like rename them, delete, etc and I hit ok at delete by accident when I mean't to rename it .....urrrggghhhhhhh

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 8906

No probs Luc....

I've taped over things by accident before so I know what it's like!

At least you get to record on your DVDR though....

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

Yeah its a very handy machine alright but it didn't feel like that last night..

. blasted thing

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