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| The Skeleton Key [2005] | ![The Skeleton Key [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411NBND31KL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Iain Softley
Actors: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, John Hurt
Studio: Uca
Category: DVD
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Format: Anamorphic, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 100 minutes
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
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Release Date: October 6, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Steeped in rain, humidity, and eerie bayou atmosphere, iThe Skeleton Key/i is an entertaining supernatural thriller that makes excellent use of its Louisiana locations. New Orleans and the rural environs of Terrebonne Parish are crucial in setting up the creepy circumstances that find compassionate caregiver Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) newly employed at the backwater plantation home of Violet (Gena Rowlands) and her invalid husband Ben (John Hurt), who's been rendered mute and seemingly helpless by a recent stroke. The place is rife with mystery, shrouded in the secrets of a suspicious past and, under Violet's stern supervision, plagued by superstition involving the use of Hoodoo magic spells (not to be confused with Voodoo, as explored in the similarly suspenseful iAngel Heart/i) intended to protect the house from harm. But Caroline soon discovers the source of the mystery, and why Ben (who can barely utter a word) is so desperate to escape his seemingly comfortable domesticity. There are a few loopholes in the screenplay by prolific horror writer Ehren Kruger (iThe Ring/i and iThe Brothers Grimm/i), but director Iain Softley (iWings of the Dove/i) expertly emphasizes the edgy air of mystery, pushing some effective shocks while encouraging fine work from Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard (as Violet's lawyer) and especially Rowlands, who's genuinely disturbing as iSkeleton Key/i nears a twist ending that's undeniably effective. --iJeff Shannon/i
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Intriguing Horror October 14, 2008
After the death of a patient in hospital Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) becomes dishearted and disillusioned with the business-like manner death is dealt with in hospitals and decides to leave her job to apply as a live-in Hospice carer to help care for an elderly southern gent on a plantation in the Big Easy.br /br /Right away, Caroline senses something isn't quite right, especially about her employer Mrs. Violet Devereaux, a real-old-south woman who is quick tongued and strict. Caroline's patient Ben, a recent stroke victim left motionless in a wheelchair and without capability of communication gives her constant pleading looks and is trying to tell her something she cannot comprehend.br /br /Caught in a web of mystery, surrounded by evident signs of Hoodoo (magical/religious) practices, sceptical Caroline begins to grow increasingly worried for her patient's life, and armed with a skeleton key, begins to search for answers to find out why Ben is so scared and her employer is ever watchful. br /br /This movie is an intriguing horror that will leave you guessing until the very end - the ending has a wonderful twist that will leave you very surprised, and there is some wonderful performances from Gena Rowlands and John Hurt. br /br /
Unusual thriller with intelligent twist August 10, 2008
This is an intelligent and unusual supernatural thriller. Set in pre-Katrina New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta (there is an excellent use of its locations), it stars Kate Hudson as a caregiver who is given the job of nursing the invalid husband (John Hurt, who as a recent stroke victim, doesn't speak a word in the whole film) of Gena Rowlands, who live in an creepy old house in a plantation. Soon it becomes clear that the Hurt character knows something terrible that he is unable to say. This is only the beginning of a very creepy, unsettling thriller. There is a very intelligent final twist, that holds up on second viewing (many viewers, I suspect, will not get the twist on first viewing). I don't remember seeing such twist in a movie before, but in its supernatural implications (in the possibility it holds in someone switching bodies), it is reminiscent of a nifty H. G. Wells story, the Story of the Late Mr. Evelsham.
 Interesting July 21, 2008
"The Skeleton Key" is an interesting film, and provides something a little different from the standard "haunted house" fare. It's not so much frightening as just intriguing, as we gradually learn more about the house Kate Hudson's character has moved to and its strange denizens. There is a unique role for John Hurt in the film - he says nary a word all throughout it, for reasons which we eventually discover.br /br /The film has a clever twist at the end. I've heard some people claim that it is illogical and doesn't make sense, but it makes sense to me. There are a few elements of the mystery which seem to make more sense at the time we see them than by the end, when everything is revealed. These cases are genuine inconsistencies. But the overall plot makes sense.br /br /In any case, this is by no means a magnificent film. It has some minor problems. But it's certainly clever, well-acted, and worth seeing.
 Seriously sinister super-natural thriller- 'It can't hurt you if you don't believe it' June 5, 2008
I rented this movie on the basis that I had only seen Kate hudson in rom-coms, and wasn't sure of how well she'd do out of that genre. I needn't have worried- she gave an excellent performance in this intelligent, tense story-line with a twist. It really sends a chill down my spine every time I watch it.br /br /Hudson plays Caroline, a feisty, twenty-something live-in nurse, who is employed by an old-fashioned Louisiana woman, Violet (Gena Rowlands), whose husband, Ben (John Hurt), has been severely impaired by a recent stroke. Caroline is given a skeleton key by Violet, claiming it opens every door in the house but one- the back attic room. Curiosity gets the better of Caroline, and upon entering the room, she finds it is full of disturbing artefacts from the local hoodoo customs. Meanwhile, Ben seems desperate to try and communicate to Caroline something that is terrifying him, and it isn't too long before Caroline starts to believe that something evil is going on.br /br /The film visually is perfect for building and sustaining the super-natural tension: the spookiness of the landscape- an ancient plantation mansion nestled in miles of silent swamps and swathed in willow trees, together with the soundtrack is really macabre- the creepy hoodoo music really gets under your skin. This deeply disturbing sense of evil and mounting unease is very gripping, leading to a climatic twist at the end, which is truly startling and unpredictable. I defy even the most hard-core scare-devils to not be even a little bit afraid!br /br /
A haunted house thriller with a twist April 9, 2008
The Skeleton Key is a haunted house story with shades of Angel Heart, Misery and even an X-Files feel at times. Set in Louisiana it is rather atmospheric - it rains a lot, there's thunderclaps, torchlight and sorcery in the air.br /br /The film is actually rather clever and you'll realise that when you get to the end. The DVD is also packed with many extras.
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