Synopsis

The story revolves around a young ex-con who moves into an old apartment building, only to learn his neighbor is an abusive police officer who savagely beats his wife and daughter. When the ex-con tries to intervene, he becomes trapped in a curse.

Official Review

Whether or not you liked 1408, you’d have to agree that John Cusack carried that film like a sack of potatoes. If someone different had been cast in the central role—like say, for instance, Jesse Bradford from Bring It On—the Stephen King adaptation would have crumbled under the weight of its own preposterousness. In The Echo, an American remake of a moderately popular Filipino horror film, a poorly-cast Bradford plays an ex-con who moves into his dead mother’s decrepit apartment once he’s finally released on parole. Lacking the intensity necessary to carry the role of a hardened parolee, the star of Swimfan reduces the part of a hardened criminal to a pathetic display of sneering bewilderment. …Read More