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Although\u00a0Kevin Bacon\u00a0has been making movies for over 40 years, including some crackers like\u00a0Hollow Man<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Mystic River<\/em>, one of his career highlights didn\u2019t even involve him having to do any work.<\/p>\n

Instead, it came when Roger the Alien from\u00a0American Dad<\/em> spent almost an entire episode impersonating Bacon, including wearing a fake nose and doing an entire Footloose dance montage. Bacon himself liked it so much that he changed his Twitter avatar to Roger for a long time. Good man.<\/p>\n

Bacon started off with the musical drama movie\u00a0Footloose,\u00a0<\/em>which was a big hit in 1984, but struggled after his initial brush with fame, getting typecast in the same kind of \u2018bad boy\u2019 roles and finding himself unable to land another lead part.<\/p>\n

After a few years in the wilderness he came back\u00a0with passable creature feature\u00a0Tremors<\/em>\u00a0in 1990 and then had another hit with\u00a0Flatliners<\/em>, the creepy movie about youngsters trying to experience the afterlife that also featured Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts.<\/p>\n

It was the first time Bacon had been involved in a proper horror, although he started his career off with the classic 1980 slasher\u00a0Friday the 13th<\/em>, and he\u2019s returned to the genre several times over his long career, sometimes with popular results, other times not so much.<\/p>\n

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The next time was in a movie from the late 1990s named\u00a0Stir of Echoes,\u00a0<\/em>a supernatural horror adapted from a book written in the \u201950s and which gained Bacon considerable praise for his performance. It suffered in terms of release timings but remains the actor\u2019s pick of his lengthy career. He told\u00a0Men\u2019s Health<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think my favourite is\u00a0Stir of Echoes<\/em>,\u201d the\u00a0Footloose<\/em>\u00a0star confessed. It\u2019s a difficult thing to pick a favourite movie from a career as deeply rich as Baocn\u2019s, but even tougher to pick one most people won\u2019t remember. Thankfully, Bacon can remind you all: \u201cStir of Echoes<\/em>, written and directed by David Koepp, was a really good movie. It had an interesting, kind of sad, outcome, because it was about a little kid and a father, and the little kid could see things\u2026 And while we were making it, we all became aware of another movie called\u00a0The Sixth Sense.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n

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Enjoying somewhat similar premises, the juggernaut Bruce Willis flick blew Bacon\u2019s movie out of the water.\u00a0\u201c<\/em>So, as a result, when it came out, people kind of said \u2018This is a good movie, but you\u2019ve already seen\u00a0The Sixth Sense\u2026<\/em>\u00a0so you don\u2019t need to go see this one’\u201d, Bacon explained. \u201cThat was kind of what happened to the movie, from a marketing standpoint. So, it was disappointing.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, I think it\u2019s definitely one worth going back and taking a look at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stir of Echoes<\/em>\u00a0is indeed a very effective,\u00a0middle-of-the-night shocker\u00a0with some genuine jump scares that found decent success especially once released on home video. It is fairly ahead of its time and has motifs that can be seen in latter horrors like\u00a0The Conjuring<\/em>\u00a0and it also features the Rolling Stones song \u2018Paint it Black\u2019 considerably, which can never be a bad thing.<\/p>\n

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The movie got a sequel in 2007, called\u00a0Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming<\/em>\u00a0starring Rob Lowe, but the less said about that the better in all honesty. Bacon did team up again with Koepp however for the 2020 psychological horror\u00a0You Should Have Left<\/em>\u00a0with Amanda Seyfried. It did ok but reviews were very mixed.<\/p>\n

Two other dark Bacon films that didn\u2019t perform as he might have wished were\u00a0They\/Them<\/em>\u00a0in 2022 and supernatural movie\u00a0The Darkness\u00a0<\/em>from 2016 which boasts a whopping rating of 3 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Bacon has also spilled plenty of blood this year as an undead vigilante in Prime Video series\u00a0The Bondsman<\/em>\u00a0which was cancelled after one season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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