THE ECHO
The Story:
Bobby (Jesse Bradford), a man who’s just been released from prison after serving an untold amount of years for involuntary manslaughter.
He moves into his mother’s apartment in New York, his mother having passed away while he was inside, and starts trying to rebuild his life. Bobby is able to find a job, working for Hector (Carlos Leon) as a mechanic, though he's on a short leash there. He's isolated most of the time, though - none of his old friends talk to him other than his ex Alyssa (Amelia Warner), and she's as wary as you might expect.
Unfortunately this new life is constantly interrupted the family next door, a cop Walter (Kevin Durand) who likes to abuse his wife Gina (Iza Calzado) and young daughter Carly (Jamie Bloch). The husband is a very violent man, given to bouts of rage at the drop of a hat, and he doesn’t like to be interfered with.
When they’re not fighting, Bobby’s hearing strange noises at all hours of the night. Scraping sounds, whispering, the padding of feet on a bare floor; it’s all very disconcerting for him since he’s trying so hard to be “normal” but nothing around him is allowing it to happen. Is it the solitude that’s getting to him? Perhaps he was inside too long and can’t deal with the real world anymore? The more Bobby learns about his mother’s last days, the more he realizes he’s seeing exactly what she saw, which drove her to stay locked in her apartment for weeks.
It’s up to him to get to the bottom of what’s going on with the sounds he’s hearing and how the people next door are connected to them, but as he learns the truth, he finds himself even more divorced for anything resembling a normal reality.
Starring:
Jesse Bradford, Amelia Warner, Kevin Durand, Carlos Leon, Iza Calzado, Jamie Bloch
Release:
2008
Directed By:
Yam Laranas
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