Stir of Echoes

(Artisan)

Kevin Bacon is gruffly convincing as a Chicago family man who undergoes hypnosis at a party and starts seeing things -- a shattered fingernail, a gray-faced girl on a sofa -- while the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black" keeps running through his head. David Koepp re-creates the gritty ambiance of our hero's neighborhood and then subtly disrupts it with intimations of madness and revelation; but the film, with its tired borrowings from The Exorcist, The Shining, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, just leads to another dead end.