Kevin Bacon is clearly still frustrated by the way Stir of Echoes got screwed.
They rejected the idea of changing the date. However, the studio didn't believe that The Sixth Sense was going to be the hit that ended up becoming. Bacon tells Entertainment Weekly doing so wouldn't have hurt The Sixth Sense, that film was destined for success, but his little movie could have been helped by it. Kevin Bacon and director David Koepp apparently got a hold of the script for The Sixth Sense shortly after shooting had wrapped on Stir of Echoes and, realizing the similarities between the plots, they approached the studio and actually lobbied to have their release date moved up. The Sixth Sense was a phenomenon, so every step of the way we were compared to them, and it completely fucked the possibility of the movie being seen.
We weren't The Sixth Sense, and there was the option to come out before Stir of Echoes was well received and testing very high, and well reviewed, as far as I remember. The Sixth Sense is a fantastic movie, there's nothing that could've happened that would've gotten in its way. Listen, The Sixth Sense would have been a hit regardless of when Stir of Echoes came out. Overshadowed is 100 percent an understatement.
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