<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (February 2018) </Td> </Tr> <P> The novel A Stir of Echoes was written by Richard Matheson, of whom director David Koepp is an avid fan . Koepp had decided he wanted his next project to be a horror film; his love for the screen adapted Duel (1971), as well as Matheson's work on The Twilight Zone (1959), contributed to his decision to purchase a copy of A Stir of Echoes, which he bought from a used bookstore . Producer Gavin Polone then secured the rights to the book . Koepp remembered being high - strung when approaching Matheson to ask for his thoughts on his script, terrified that the changes he made in the story may displease the author . Matheson, who expressed admiration for Koepp's directorial debut film The Trigger Effect (1996), responded positively to his draft and gave him his approval: "I'm sure he's done a good job of it . I do know what he's done before, and it's quite good . He has a very good touch," he said . Among Koepp's influences for the film were Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968), and David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone (1983). </P> <P> The film was produced by Artisan Entertainment on a budget of $12 million . Principal photography took place in Chicago and lasted 39 days, in the period from October 5 to November 21, 1998 . Director Brian De Palma paid the set a visit and offered Koepp some ideas, one of which is shooting a long take of Kevin Bacon during the first half of a long dialogue scene . Koepp shot the hypnosis scene, where Bacon's character envisions himself in a theater and paint everything apart from the projection screen black, as how it was written in Matheson's book . Koepp felt that many hypnosis scenes in films are "most skipped by", so he came up with the idea of allowing viewers see through Bacon's point - of - view as he undergoes hypnosis to make the concept fresh . The theater from this sequence is located at Joliet, Illinois . Bacon's tooth extraction scene, which was inspired by a nightmare Koepp had about dying of age, was achieved with practical effect . Koepp told Entertainment Weekly: </P> <P> We blacked out Kevin's tooth and built a cap to go over it, so he's pulling out a cap that comes off fairly easily, and he gives some grunts and groans and we added grotesque, crunching flesh noises...while he's pulling out the tooth, he's (also) palming a real tooth in his other hand (to drop into the sink). He drops the real tooth, we tilt down to see it, and then somebody darted in (from off - camera) with a washcloth and wiped the blood off Kevin's face, so when he looks back up into the mirror, his face and teeth are clean . </P>

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