In 1999 "The Sixth Sense," a spooky-ooky ... "And you don't want to think of your movie in terms of some other movie." At the time of "Stir of Echoes," Koepp was already one of the most successful ...
In 1999, the harrowing horror-thriller ... And I like those people, and I don't see those people in this kind of movie." The effect in Stir of Echoes is an intense closeness.
American movies seldom comment on class, and Stir of Echoes doesn't do so overtly; but it implies a lot more than meets the eye on the screen - and I don't mean in the otherworldly sense ...