Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
The Skeleton Key - (Kate Hudson - John Hurt)(2005)[DvdRip-Xvid-English]
Starring
Kate Hudson ... Caroline Ellis Gena Rowlands ... Violet Devereaux John Hurt ... Ben Devereaux Peter Sarsgaard ... Luke Marshall Joy Bryant ... Jill Maxine Barnett ... Mama Cynthia Fahnlohnee R. Harris ... Hallie (as Fahnlohnee Harris) Marion Zinser ... Bayou Woman Deneen Tyler ... Desk Nurse Ann Dalrymple ... C.N.A. Trula M. Marcus ... Nurse Trula (as Trula Marcus) Tonya Staten ... Nurse Audrey Thomas Uskali ... Robertson Thorpe (as Tom Uskali) Jen Apgar ... Madeleine Thorpe Forrest Landis ... Martin Thorpe
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IMDB Rating =
6.5/10
Link to IMDB HERE https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/
Plot
The Skeleton Key is about a 25-year old girl who gets a job as a caretaker living in a plantation home in Terrebone Parish, Louisiana. She soon discovers the scary attic in the house, with all sorts of hoodoo recipes, spells, books, etc. She starts to investigate and question Violet, the owner of the house, about the secrets. But if she believes in what she discovers, it will all become real!
Review From IMDB
Horror movies have become a dime a dozen in the past few years. The watchable ones seem to fall into two categories of late: misguided psychological thrillers headlined by a consummate actress (witness Naomi Watts in "The Ring 2" or Jennifer Connelly in "Dark Water") or over the top slasher/gore-fests with serious kitsch value (witness Romero's enjoyable zombie flick "Land of the Dead" or Rob Zombie's sadistic "Devil's Rejects"). All of the rest have pretty much been unbearable cliché-ridden hack jobs ("White Noise," "Darkness Falls," etc...) Oddly enough, "The Skeleton Key" doesn't fall into any of these categories and it comes across as a breath of fresh air, an old-fashioned throwback to the traditional Gothic mystery thriller, where a pretty female outsider (Kate Hudson acquitting herself rather nicely here as the hospice nurse traveling deep into the Bayou to care for an apparent stroke victim) moves into a big old house/castle that just might be haunted. The director and screenwriter start things slowly, and do a nice job of creating a realistic setting before letting all the mumbo-jumbo slowly and effectively creep in. Gena Rowlands and John Hurt (immobile and mute for most of the film) are fairly good in their respective roles as the married couple with more than just skeletons in their closets. We've seen this stuff all before, but it's done fairly well here with no sense of flash or pretensions, and as silly (and potentially offensive) as all this Hoodoo in the Bayou stuff is, the audience is treated to a twist ending that makes perfect sense in the context we have been given. This isn't a twist ending for twisting sake, but a fitting conclusion to the story. "The Skeleton Key" tries to remind people of classics like "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Others." It may not ultimately hold a candle to those films, but it's a very entertaining way to spend a few hours.