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The Skeleton Key (2005)

PG-13 Jul 29, 2005 Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller 1h 44m
User Score
66%
2,147 votes
Internet Movie Database
65%
Rotten Tomatoes
37%
Metacritic
4700%

Fearing is believing.

Overview

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

Ehren Kruger
Writer
Iain Softley
Director

Top Billed Cast

Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson

Caroline Ellis
Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands

Violet Devereaux
Peter Sarsgaard
Peter Sarsgaard

Luke Marshall
John Hurt
John Hurt

Ben Devereaux
Joy Bryant
Joy Bryant

Jill
Marion Zinser
Marion Zinser

Bayou Woman
Maxine Barnett
Maxine Barnett

Mama Cynthia
Fahnlohnee R. Harris
Fahnlohnee R. Harris

Hallie
Deneen Tyler
Deneen Tyler

Desk Nurse

Full Cast & Crew

Media

The Skeleton Key Trailer
The Skeleton Key Trailer
Trailer
The Skeleton Key [Movie Trailer]
The Skeleton Key [Movie Trailer]
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Reviews

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A review by Wuchak
Written on August 27, 2020

_**The Louisiana bayou, an antebellum mansion, Hoodoo and Kate Hudson**_

A New Orleans hospice worker (Kate Hudson) takes a job at a dilapidated antebellum mansion in the bayou caring for a dying old man (John Hurt). His wife seems to be hiding something, however (Gena Rowlands). Peter Sarsgaard is on hand as the estate’s amiable lawyer.

"The Skeleton Key" (2005) is a Southern Gothic supernatural thriller set in the Louisiana bayou à la “Cat People” (1982) and “The Reaping” (2007). It’s not as good as the former, but arguably superior to the latter or at least on par. Most of the film is an eerie drama taking place in and around the old Southern mansion, but the pace picks up in the final act with a quality surprise climax. Neither my wife nor I were able to anticipate...

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