The Skeptic

all good supernatural thrillers need to be successful.....Emphasizing psychological scares over effects-driven shocks or gore, Bardwell ends up with a fractured drama lacking the climactic surprise....Cinematographer Claudio Rocha is responsible for much of the film's polished appearance, especially its exteriors in Saratoga Springs and Ballston Spa, NY..... ... Full Review

it falls flat despite a creditable cast.....Older audiences, conversely, will be shaking their heads at the plethora of questionable and even idiotic actions of the supposedly intelligent characters..... ... Full Review

Written and directed by Tennyson Bardwell, The Skeptic is a very different kind of housing nightmare in this age of mass foreclosures, but one....While horror movies have become tedious fare, relying on outworn conventional templates.... ... Full Review

Those rumors about a horribly aging portrait in Tim Daly's attic can be put to rest. Finally, in his early 50s, the actor looks over 30. ... Full Article

"The Skeptic," written and directed by Tennyson Bardwell, wants to be a haunted house movie for grownups, if such an oxymoron is possible. That means that there are no thrill-seeking teenage daredevils whose curiosity incites a bloodbath at the hands... ... Full Article

A TV-grade suspenser from the director of Dorian Blues, The Skeptic channels the spirit of Murder, She Wrote and 3-2-1 Contact 's Bloodhound Gang, following the star of Wings and Private Practice into an ostensibly haunted Victorian manse in order... ... Full Article

You know you're in trouble when the most appealing element your film is Tom Arnold. In The Skeptic , Arnold plays Sully, yet another version of the sidekick that he plays in nearly all his movies. ... Full Article

Stop me if you've heard this one before: THE SKEPTIC (currently available via video-on-demand and opening in limited theatrical engagements in New York today and Albany and Los Angeles later in May from IFC) is about a man who inherits... ... Full Article

Following the mysterious death of his aunt, power lawyer Bryan Becket moves into the elderly woman's purportedly haunted Victorian mansion. A die hard skeptic, he dismisses one eerie incident after another, until the haunting turns so personal and vicious, Becket'ss... ... Full Article