Old-fashioned in the worst sense, Bardwell's ghost story is heavy on Freud, light on fear.
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05/15/09
The Skeptic (2009)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:1
Rotten:11
Average Rating:3.2/10
Synopsis: Following the mysterious death of his aunt, power lawyer Bryan Becket (Tim Daly) moves into the elderly woman's purportedly haunted Victorian mansion. A die hard skeptic, he dismisses one eerie... [More]
Starring: Tim Daly, Tom Arnold, Zoe Saldana, Edward Herrmann
Director: Tennyson Bardwell
Reviews for The Skeptic
1 - 12 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticYou know you're in trouble when the most appealing element your film is Tom Arnold.
05/07/09
A film with good ideas and performances but weak, predictable, two-dimensional, frustrating dialogue.
05/06/09
While horror movies have become tedious fare, relying on recycled gotcha scare tactics, this brainteaser blend of the logical, psychological and psychic aims to keep viewers on their toes, as well as at the edge of their seats.
05/03/09
Polished but dull.
05/01/09
This old-fashioned psychological ghost story ... repeatedly compels supposedly mature and intelligent people to do preposterous things in order to keep the plot moving.
05/01/09
Tennyson Bardwell’s pretentious psycho-supernatural flick doesn’t even qualify as guilty-pleasure camp. It’s the sort of bad movie that will make you lose faith in the genre altogether.
05/01/09
Bardwell writes and directs carefully though without inspiration, leaving open the question of whether the house is really haunted.
05/01/09
I'll take a bunch of teenagers terrorized by chain-saw-wielding zombies any day.
05/01/09
Top CriticToo tepid to ever get your heart racing and too simple to engage the mind.
04/30/09
A mechanical compendium of anti-skepticism clichés, right down to the obligatory post-realization upchuck.
04/28/09
The supernatural is the hobgoblin of the titular doubting Thomas in The Skeptic, though judging by writer-director Tennyson Bardwell's hapless mood shifts in this tepid horror-comedy, it seems consistency of tone deserves even less credibility.
04/27/09
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