Stuff I don't understand

* Cyrus was said to have "squandered the family fortune," and yet he has enough money to buy antiquities and build elaborate Satanic house-machines, and the lawyer even tells Arthur "Cyrus was a genius with money. You and your family will never have to worry about money again." How could Arthur have been so clueless about Cyrus' wealth?

Notice the "Was Said to have" That doesn't mean he actually did. Just a rumour.

What is the deal with Cyrus? When we see Cyrus, he is seen wearing the same blood-soaked clothing and sporting the same neck-wound he had the night he was killed. He's not a ghost, because he can be seen without the glasses and was an actual corporeal being (shown when Arthur attacked him, who was then subsequently attacked by Cyrus). If Cyrus was alive and his wound was fake, why would he still be wearing the makeup? It was night when he was killed, and it was daytime when Moss visited Arthur, and the family arrives at the house at night, so at least one day has passed. If he died, why could he be seen without the glasses?

I always thought that he hadn't died and that the reason he looked like his "dead" self was just in case someone saw him before the finale.

Dennis states that ectobar glass is shatterproof and soundproof. Unless it was something done to benefit the viewer, sound seems to travel quite well through the glass. We even hear the back half of the lawyer slide down the glass. Also, every single piece of ectobar glass is shattered when the machine explodes at the end. Was the explosion strong enough to shatter the shatter-proof glass? Were the sounds loud enough to bypass the soundproofing? Was this just Hollywood attempting to make the movie more exciting?

I think it's Hollywood logic, its sound and shatterproof when they story calls for it. Same as when it shatters

Why was the babysitter necessary? She was a terrible character. Murderous ghosts are free, attacking people and eventually powering a machine to open a portal to Hell, and when climbing down a hole, she says "Damn, I just got my nails done." Really?? She and/or anyone else in the house could be killed at any moment by vengeful spirits, and she's worried about her freaking manicure?! Also, at one point she freaks out and says something like "I'm stuck in here, a glass house, with a bunch of crazy white people." So, the race of the people you're trapped with matters, but the murderous ghosts that will create a door to Hell don't? Awful. Just awful.

I think that's just opinion.

Why was Arthur so profane in front of his children? He cared a great deal about his children, so one would imagine that he would try to spare them from that language as much as possible, at least around the home.

I never noticed his "profanity"

Dennis mentions that he goes into seizures whenever he gets near anything dead. But earlier in the movie, when he first goes into the basement and starts having his seizures, he says "What the hell was that?" He knows he has this ability, he knows what causes it, and he knows the kind of person Cyrus was... why did it take him so long to connect the dots

Hollywood logic and plot creating. Imagine if he found out Cyrus's plan from the start, the film would be over in ten minutes

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The soundproofing may just be a plot device to explain how at one point all the characters are in the basement, and when one group is attacked the others don't come to help.

The babysitter is there for comic relief, pretty much. Not that she was funny. I agree with you, you could telegraph her jokes. I remember people laughing in the theater and shaking my head. That's why Rafkin is funnier, at least to me. His comedy is more a way of insulting the person for not understanding instead of just a joke to be funny. "Did I say there was a petting zoo in the basement?"

I didn't notice much profanity, especially in the face of what was going on. I'm profane all the time, ghosts or not.

The what the hell was that could easily be interpruted to the fact that he just didn't expect them to be there. Like if you were a liontamer and worked with them everyday, you still would be shocked to find one in your living room.

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