Stir occasionally

This Sunday, the Sci Fi network will premiere Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming, under the Sci Fi Original Movie banner. Formerly known as Stir of Echoes: The Dead Speak, the flick stars Rob Lowe as a returning Iraq vet with visions of the dead. It has no evident direct connection to the 1999 thriller starring Kevin Bacon and Illeana Douglas, written and directed by the perennially uneven David Koepp. The first was moderately successful, taking in about $21 million on a $12m investment, but hit theaters about a month after The Sixth Sense, which was still doing gangbuster business well into the five-week mark, drawing off much of Stir's would-be revenue.

Writer/director on the sequel is Ernie Barbarash, whose sequel work includes screenplays on Cube²: Hypercube and Cube Zero (the third installment, which one would be forgiven for expecting to be called Cube³ - they went with Cube squared but not cubed?), and a director credit on the latter.

Stir of Echoes 2 does not appear to be based on a Richard Matheson novel.