The Skeleton Key

2005 • 103 minutes

About this movie

Sent to New Orleans to care for an aging stroke victim (John Hurt) who lies bedridden and speechless in a rambling antebellum mansion, 25-year-old hospice worker Caroline (Kate Hudson) discovers a key that unlocks ancient secrets. Alone in the house with no company aside from the man's unfriendly wife (Gena Rowlands), Caroline eventually comes across a hidden room. But what she finds inside is a Pandora's box of voodoo, danger and lies.

Ratings and reviews

This movie ticked me off!! I was really in to it and yeah sure twist ending are cool. Plus I live in spitting distance of Louisiana, so voodoo stuff around here isent new. But this movies ending had me so fresking mad I was glad I only borrowed it from a friend. He even said he wont watch it again! Is it good to see, ehh maybe if you really want to watch it. I say rent it first though, I get mad just seeing the picture for it.

Different comparatively maybe to midnight in the garden of evil better done but it was very fun. Different from most films that have that level of feeling. Honestly it was very good but not a horror movie to me.

Maybe intense and the plot was cute. I don't consider this movie to have snuff gore to join the genre up for rating but movie isss clever.