Skeptic?

hey, just wondering if you've watched the film?
i'm about to watch it and if it is an anti-skeptic movie (which it sounds like it is) i'm gonna be pissed. but another poster claims that it's not so i'm interested.



A belief in an afterlife makes death so much easier.

just watched it; didn't think it really did discredit skeptics. my feeling is that it was left pretty open to interpretation... so as a skeptic myself; i'm gonna say it was all explained pretty well and there were no supernatural stuff going on.

either way, i did enjoy the movie. starts making "the skeptic" look like an *beep* but you have a very different impression by the end which to me is a good thing.




A belief in an afterlife makes death so much easier.

It's fiction. It's a movie about a skeptic in a fictional setting where supernatural occurrences do happen. It's not saying anything about anyone in the real world. Plenty of other ghost stories do the same thing.

I'm an arch-skeptic of all things supernatural/paranormal, but I didn't find this movie to be particularly anti-skeptic. In fact, the ending is ambiguous enough to suggest that nothing paranormal at all occurred in the story. However, they did a poor job of portraying the protagonist as a good, critical thinking skeptic. He just comes off as an arrogant prick. He's also way too readily accepting of the assistance of Cassie the "psychic". Any skeptic worth his salt would have flung her out of the house.

To see the only real monster, one must only look in the mirror.