The Skeptic - The devilish house
| Movie | |
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| German title | The Skeptic - The devilish house |
| Original title | The Skeptic |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Tennyson Bardwell |
| script | Tennyson Bardwell |
| production | Tennyson Bardwell Aimee Schoof Mary-Beth Taylor Isen Robbins |
| music | Brett Rosenberg |
| camera | Claudio Rocha |
| cut | Ann Marie Lizzi |
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The Skeptic is an American psychological thriller from 2009. Tennyson Bardwell wrote the script and directed. Similar to Dream House , it is about a family man who has lost touch with reality due to a traumatic experience. Tim Daly embodies this here .
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Bryan Becket believes he is inheriting the house of his religious aunt Marleen Deaver, with whom he had no contact. But then a will emerges in which she gave the neat little house to sleep doctor Dr. Koven, who helped her analyze paranormal phenomena in her home during her lifetime. Bryan doesn't think much of this haunted researcher who, in his opinion, was making a fool of a confused old woman. Bryan wants to challenge the will to prevent this charlatan from inheriting the house into which he has already moved. When he heard a whispering voice in the house one night, however, he looked meekly for Dr. Koven's advice. To his amazement, he advises him to see a psychiatrist, which anger Bryan again.
Without notice, one of Koven's test subjects, the eccentric Cassie, appears in Bryan's house and lodges there, in order, as she says, to witness the paranormal phenomena. So she could punish all those lies that question Bryan's mental health. When he was a child, he received brief psychotherapeutic treatment after the death of his mother. Cassie acts as a medium. She picks up the vibrations of the house and feels that bad things once happened there. Her piercing questions about Bryan's past awaken the first previously hidden memories. He receives more insightful information from Father Wymond, long time parish priest. Bryan grew up in the very house he currently lives in until his mother's death. His mother Helena was a wicked mother. Their upbringing consisted of abuse. The last thing Bryan could remember was his mother cooking for a picnic. However, this picnic did not take place because he had forgotten a red sock while cleaning his room, for which he was locked in the dark prayer chamber of the house as a punishment. With the help of Bryan's childhood psychiatrist, he also recalls his memory of his mother tripping over a doll he left on the stairs, falling down the stairs and dying.
As a result of the revelations, Bryan is now a nervous wreck and can no longer meet his professional obligations as a lawyer. He decides to leave the ominous house. When he wants to get his things, he has a vision of the accident and sees his mother lying at the end of the stairs. Thereupon he collapses and falls, like his mother back then, down the stairs. He has another vision: His mother, who is lying at the foot of the stairs, lovingly takes him by the cheek. A fade-over shows how, as a child, he opens the door of the prayer chamber in which he was last locked, and looks at a paradisiacal meadow where his mother has prepared the picnic and receives him ruefully. The last sequence shows Bryan alone again, lying at the foot of the stairs, breathing heavily.
background
The thriller was in the two neighboring communities of Ballston Spa and Saratoga Springs in the State of New York turned. The world premiere took place on March 28, 2009 at the Cleveland International Film Festival. The actor Robert Prosky did not live to see the premiere. He died four months earlier after heart surgery.
The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in May 2011. From January 30, 2015, the DVD was also sold under the title Paranormal Nightmare .
Web links
- The Skeptic - The Demon House in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Skeptic - The diabolical house in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Skeptic - The devilish house . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2011 (PDF; test number: 127 587 V).
- ↑ Michael Drewniok: The Skeptic - The devilish house. Detlef Hedderich, May 12, 2011, accessed September 10, 2017 .
- ↑ locations. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Premiere dates . Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Popular supporting actor Robert Prosky is dead. Spiegel, accessed February 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Filmstarts.de ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sofa heroes
