![]() Kevin Bacon stars in one of his best performances, as a telephone lineman named Tom Witzky, who plays in a band, wants to break out of the routine of his life and succeeds all too successfully. Certainly You Should Have Left doesn't break any new ground, but it's a fine example of a solidly creepy chiller that should please horror hounds. 'Stir of Echoes' is a supernatural thriller firmly rooted in a blue-collar Chicago neighborhood, where everyone on the block knows one another-although not as well as they think. Bacon embodies jealousy and uncertainty, while Seyfried exemplifies carefree playfulness mixed with secrecy. The human story works, too, and, even as simple as it is, the three main performers fill in the blanks on a troubled family dynamic. The sisters are remarkably close, communicating daily in a shared video diary, until one day Leni. In a way, the house's sheer physical presence is even spookier than more typical tricks like shadows on the wall or reflections that move on their own. In the limited series Echoes, Gina (Michelle Monaghan) is a bestselling writer who lives in Los Angeles and leads the glamorous life, while her twin sister Leni (Monaghan) stayed back home in rural Mt. The house itself is truly unsettling in the way that doors and odd angles tend to obscure certain images, keeping viewers off-balance. At a party one evening, Tom challenges Maggies sister Lisa (Illeana Douglas), a believer in paranormal. ![]() Working within the Blumhouse template, Koepp keeps the production small, using some very simple, effective tricks to generate genuine spine tingles. Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is a phone lineman living in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago with his pregnant wife Maggie (Kathryn Erbe) and his son Jake (Zachary David Cope), who possesses the ability to commune with the dead. Adapted (from a novella by Daniel Kehlmann) and directed by noted screenwriter David Koepp ( Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, etc.), You Should Have Left reunites the director with star Bacon they worked together two decades earlier on Stir of Echoes. ![]() Though it uses a pretty basic, familiar haunted-house setup, this spooky horror/thriller benefits from crisp, unpretentious filmmaking, wasting little time on needless filler and getting right to it.
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