The Skeptic

2009

Horror / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 8% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 4529 4.5K

Plot summary

After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the house which gnaws at Becket - some strange connection he senses he has with the house's past. Soon, the haunting turns personal.


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Top cast

Zoe Saldana as Cassie
Edward Herrmann as Dr. Shepard
Tim Daly as Bryan Becket
Andrea Roth as Robin Becket
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by theeintolerablekidd 7 / 10

Clever and scary

I really liked this film. Like my title says it was clever and scary, maybe even a little too much in places. At one point, I must admit, I had my hands in front of my eyes.

A 30 something lawyer moves into his aunts large house after her death. He soon experiences signs that the house may be haunted, but is it haunted or is it all in his head? Either way it makes for a scary movie, and that is what's clever about this film. It leaves you with questions. Good questions, not holes in the script, but intelligent thought provoking stuff. OK maybe that's going a bit far, it's not Freud or anything but it is good solid cinema. Good acting and an evenly paced well executed script. Nice to see Tom Arnold too.

Reviewed by corychace84 6 / 10

Good movie, but ending worse than the sopranos

This movie is definitely an interesting movie. The beginning moves along rather well. Keeping my interest as it moves along. The characters are all cast well. It is set at a nice pace as the story develops. I don't really know what to say. This movie was developing so great. Then all of a sudden there's this scene with the shrink and then couple minutes later the movie is finished. The very end is like the sopranos, but worse. I had an easy time making my own ending for that show, but this movie leaves too many questions. This movie could have easily been a 2 hour movie that was great. Instead I feel the end was rushed. Plus the end left you wondering what the hell happened. I mean come on! They had a great movie going and they blew it!!! Had this as a 7 ranking.... changing it to a 6 now that I think about it...

Reviewed by herb-924-148734 5 / 10

rushed/contrived ending

This one was interesting until the company apparently ran out of money and had to rush the ending. You knew something was wrong when the protagonist's para-normal friend couldn't make it on the fatal night. Then his shrink tells him he was locked in a closet on the day of his mother's "accident." This revelation, we are told, emerged because the protagonist was in a 'crisis stage.' Then he says I'm going to a hotel, but first I'm going back to get my things. The shrink says, good idea! Come on -- the writers are getting desperate. Then the para-normal friend's black car is parked outside. But it isn't! That defies credulity and consistency. And so -- the ending. The finale, which has been discussed, is clearly a final wish-fulfillment, the long-held wish from the five year old for the idyllic picnic he was denied so many years before. Other problems -- the doll. Why? Why not the roller-skate (or whatever it was) that propelled Mama down those stairs? And -- what was the protagonist's mental state? Did he finally/gradually go crazy? His development was not well charted. But, basically, the rushed ending defeated a promising film.

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