The Skeleton Key

2005 "Fearing is believing."
6.5| 1h44m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 12 August 2005 Released
Producted By: Universal Pictures
Country: United States of America
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A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

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Iain Softley

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Universal Pictures

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
tamosoeka I watched this film years ago. Then came back to it.It's a real ghost story. Things that comes up when you look in the Horror Genre don't satisfy you these days. This one did.As a mainstream film, it did well, too. There is no reason you would dislike it. It's re-watchable, a quality too many films lack.The film will give you a good time. Perhaps one can't call it great, but it wasn't bad, either.
moonspinner55 Pretty nurse down in Louisiana's bayou country (via Hoboken!) accepts job as caregiver to an elderly stroke victim; the patient lives in a spooky Gothic manor with his lifetime beloved, a nervous woman who has very strange beliefs regarding the history of the house and the brother and sister who used to occupy it. Director Iain Softley, working from an outlandish yet satisfying screenplay by Ehren Kruger, creates an amusingly frightful atmosphere thick with supernatural happenings. The repetitious false-scares and red herrings (not to mention the numerous Mt. Rushmore-like close-ups of star Kate Hudson's worried face) render the film strictly a popcorn thriller, yet the twisting plot has some delicious bends--and a decadently evil finale. Hudson, Gena Rowlands and Peter Sarsgaard are all solid, and the backwater locale is unusual and intriguing. This is most likely the only thriller in history to use "Iko, Iko" by The Dixie Cups as a story diversion, though the picture certainly makes its audience think twice about the power of unusual beliefs...where does one purchase brick dust, anyhow? **1/2 from ****
Kim Heniadis I watched this one when it first came out and loved it, so I wanted to give it a rewatch to see if I still enjoyed it as much…. And I did! I have a thing for Southern mansions with big porches, and if you mix in some Hoodoo or Voodoo, even better.Don't really want to say too much about the story or the ending, because the ending is what really made this movie stand out to me. During my first watch it wasn't until really close to the end when I finally figured out what was happening, which made it so enjoyable.Some might classify this as more of a thriller, but there are Gothic horror as well as regular horror elements to it. I could see a couple of scenes that would make people jump, and some of the images, like when Caroline's eyes and lips were sewn shut could be seen as horror. As for the Gothic horror, there's the big creepy mansion far away from any neighbors. And a female caregiver who moves in, and has a very small support system, so people won't really wonder/care if anything happens to her. As well as the possibility of ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night. I highly recommend this movie if you've never seen it before. And if you have, and enjoyed it, I would definitely say to give it a rewatch.
Irishchatter I have to say Kate Hudson was so like Lara Croft on this because her stunts and actions were just awesome! Although, this movie was more odd and you would be asking yourself a lot of questions. It really isn't that scary but you do get a few jump scares that normally just give you a few heart attacks. Nothing bad will happen, I promise!I just wonder, how did Cecile and Justify get into the lawyers and Caroline's body? OK so I know Caroline got hit by the mirror and different faces were shown but again, how on earth were they able to transfer themselves onto the bodies?! This is a really good movie at the same time and it'll definitely give you chills! Happy Halloween! :D