where was the movie stir of echoes filmed
Stir of Echoes The film was produced by Artisan Entertainment on a budget of $12 million. Principal photography took place in Chicago and lasted 39 days,[5] in the period from October 5 to November 21, 1998.[6] 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.[4] 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.[4] 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: