The Skeptic 2009 123movies

Watch: The Skeptic 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that his Aunt’s 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, he hears voices suggesting clues to a deep mystery. He questions his sanity, seeks medical help, but instead finds assistance in a young psychic who immediately declares, “There’s a very bad secret in this house.” Together they embark on a terrifying journey to uncover the secret – a journey which leads them deep into the recesses of The Skeptic’s own troubled mind..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	5.6/10 Votes: 4,253
	8% | RottenTomatoes
	31/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 78 Popularity: 6.599 | TMDB

Reviews:

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.

The Skeptic
Tim Daly stars as successful lawyer Bryan Becket, a very vocal non believer who doesn’t adhere to any sort of religious philosophy, psychiatry, supernatural, or psychic phenomena(it also includes astrology and the belief in the Loch Ness monster). In short, Becket doesn’t believe in anything other than what the senses tell us. This all changes, though, when he starts staying in his dead aunt’s house, and the specter of a woman starts appearing(and whispering)to him.

Tom Arnold is Daly’s partner at their firm, Sully, often the butt of many jokes because he’s the polar opposite of Becket..in short, he believes almost in everything. Estranged from a very good wife, Robin(Andrea Roth) who loves him and has tolerated a lot of unnecessary stress thanks to her “unemotional” husband, Becket uses his time(it’s a good enough excuse)at the other house in an attempt to prepare for a big case coming up. But, the woman that keeps popping up distracts Becket from the task at hand. Becket has a lot of childhood baggage that he has kept buried from when he was five years old regarding his mother’s death(she fell down a flight of steps down a stairwell), which could relate to what is currently “haunting” him. Robert Prosky is Father Wymond, the Priest of his aunt’s Catholic church(she wasn’t exactly a devout Catholic, though), and a good friend to atheist Becket who, while frowning upon religion of any kind, often enjoys chatting with him despite their differences. Edward Herrmann is Dr. Shepard, a shrink who worked with Becket when he was a kid and maybe knows more about Bryan’s past than he is admitting. The sexy Zoe Saldana( pre-Star Trek stardom)has a supporting role as a psychic, Cassie, who helps Becket address the missing bits of his past, confronting those horrible memories that begin to surface. Bruce Altman is Dr. Warren Koven, a “sleep specialist” whose institute was actually listed on Becket’s aunt’s will to inherit the house Bryan covets..Becket goes to Koven, who doesn’t believe in the supernatural, but applies science to the unexplained, in need of advice regarding what he is experiencing in the house.

It was supposed to be a simple stay for a little while, sell off the valuable antiques and other properties, then the house itself, but, instead, Becket encounters far more than he could’ve imagined. We learn than Becket has been suffering sleep deprivation, not to mention, night terrors, reliving past memories without knowing it(Robin informs Bryan of this fact that he talks in his sleep, awakening in horror at the abuse from his mother). Solid cast in this ghost story where someone who has been shaped by the experiences of his past, must come face to face with that monster that has never truly left him. The ending, to me, is rather startling in how it concludes the “relationship” between mother and son. It seems that Becket is being tormented by his mom out of some sort of revenge for something he might’ve done, as if what she did to him as a child wasn’t enough. Yet, the final reel actually goes in a completely different direction, and we see that mother had other plans all along.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min) (USA), 1 hr 29 min (89 min) (Canada)
Budget 0
Revenue 205585
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Horror, Thriller
Director Tennyson Bardwell
Writer Tennyson Bardwell
Actors Tim Daly, Tom Arnold, Zoe Saldana
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A