As the plot kicks in, the hysteria mounts and the explanations start coming, the tension starts to dissipate. Like Bacon's strenuous attempt to sound working class, the movie tries too hard.

[A] serious, atmospheric, character-driven supernatural drama.

The skillful shock cuts will make you jump out of your skin, but it's the digital visualisation of the ghostly Samantha which really makes the flesh crawl.

Released in the shadow of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, David Koepp’s Stir of Echoes crept in at the tail end of the 1990s to become one of its decade’s finest supernatural thrillers – and certainly one of its most underrated.