Product Details

• Actors: Bruce Altman, Tom Arnold, Tim Daly, Edward Herrmann, Robert Prosky
• Directors: Tennyson Bardwell
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: December 8, 2009
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002OQZE5E
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,449 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You don't think. You know., October 20, 2009

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New Age of Barbarism "zosimos" (EVROPA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Skeptic (DVD)

_The Skeptic_ (2008) is a decent movie about a lawyer/skeptic who is forced to re-think things after he starts seeing visions of ghosts. The movie brings up important issues from psychology such as how perception/misperception determines our reality, etc. The movie also touches upon the philosophical issues that have taken such an important place in the modern world - skepticism/gullibility, openness, reason and science, and the role of faith, etc. Ultimately, the film shows the descent of the skeptic into madness as he is increasingly haunted by memories of his past and visions of ghosts. Although he begins as highly skeptical, he is initially challenged by a para-psychological researcher (who also doubts the supernatural) into re-thinking his world-view and understanding. After it is revealed to him how perceptions can deceive, he begins to question certain aspects of reality. He then consults a psychologist who discusses with him his early childhood and shows him the difficulties he must face. At the end, he must confront his past and the ghost of his dead mother.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scary in the tradition of old-fashioned horror films, April 11, 2010

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Rick H (NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Skeptic (DVD)

I caught this on cable recently and was pleasantly surprised that someone still knows how to make an old-fashioned horror film, in a similar vein as "Two On A Guillotine", or a William Castle film and other black-and-white scary films of the late 50's/early 60's. It also reminded me a bit of something Rod Serling might have done, similar to a Night Gallery episode. It's more of a psychologically-based horror film than it is modern day horror film. (If you're sick of vampire movies, you might find this one really refreshing to see, a film that harkens back to the days of those earlier fright films mentioned.) Recommended for good, old-fashioned haunted house movie scares.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, mother. You got me back in, July 7, 2011

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Edwin C. Pauzer (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Skeptic (DVD)

When you've never heard about the movie in which you find yourself engrossed, it is like that little extra, that unexpected flavor in your food or that check that suddenly arrives in the mail. "The Skeptic" was just one of those experiences that excited our senses as we found ourselves engrossed in its eerie suspense, spine-tingling script, and good acting.

Timothy Daly played by Bryan Becket is a successful lawyer and a realist, skeptical of supernatural explanations. He inherits a house from an aunt, and it is said to be haunted. He decides to stay there until the estate is settled. That and his estrangement from his wife provide the foundation of the plot. Even as he drives to the house, you want to tell Beckett's character to not go in there. Daly starts to hear strange sounds and experience strange phenomena from his arrival. Not being able to explain it, he seeks the guidance of a priest who tells him there are supernatural as well as rational explanations. He also seeks the help of a psychiatrist who doesn't believe in the supernatural, but both leave Daly unsatisfied with rational explanations from what he is experiencing. If it isn't supernatural, is he going crazy? Are the strange sounds and experiences hallucinations or an extension of a fugue? When he meets Cassie, she tells him that the things he hears and sees doesn't mean the house is talking to him. She senses the house is haunted and advises Daly to leave.

Edward Hermann plays Dr. Shepard, Daly's psychiatrist who fits one of the final pieces of the puzzle to what went on in the lawyer's childhood. Father Wymond played by the able actor Robert Prosky also knows something about his childhood that he won't accept. Cassie's character is played by Zoe Saldana. The cinematography is excellent and adds to the chilling experience yet to come.

The haunting part is one of the last lines in the movie: "Very good, mother. You got me back in.

He begins to believe.