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The Skeleton Key
2005 1h 44m PG-13
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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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Directed By
Iain Softley
Written By
Ehren Kruger
Studio
Universal Pictures
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Cast of The Skeleton Key
Kate Hudson
Caroline Ellis
Gena Rowlands
Violet Devereaux
Peter Sarsgaard
Luke Marshall
John Hurt
Ben Devereaux
Joy Bryant
Jill
Marion Zinser
Bayou Woman
Maxine Barnett
Mama Cynthia
Fahnlohnee R. Harris
Hallie
Deneen Tyler
Desk Nurse
Ann Dalrymple
C.N.A.
Trula M. Marcus
Nurse Trula
Jen Apgar
Madeleine Thorpe
Thomas Uskali
Robertson Thorpe
Jamie Lee Redmon
Grace Thorpe
Forrest Landis
Martin Thorpe
Tonya Staten
Nurse Audrey
Isaach De Bankolé
Creole Gas Station Owner
Christa Thorne
Creole Mother
Ronald McCall
Papa Justify
Jeryl Prescott
Mama Cecile
Lakrishi Kindred
Frail Customer
Sabah
Luke's Secretary
Joe Chrest
Paramedic
David J. Curtis
Party Guest
Tiffany Helland
Party Guest
Brian Ruppert
Party Guest
The Skeleton Key Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
A well-intentioned horror film that is weighted down by stellar cast members who for the most part act as if they don't want to be there.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
The Skeleton Key is a hoodoo puzzle that's more interesting than scary.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The film offers a rich gumbo of menace, mystery and magic - and then lets it go cold and mushy in a rainstorm of Hollywood haunted-house huggermugger.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
There's lots of bad stuff brewing on the bayou in this occasionally scary but more often silly movie, which wastes some good actors along the way.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The Skeleton Key is strictly summer schlock.
Newark Star-Ledger
Lisa Rose
It's basically Rosemary's Baby, Cajun style, with a pinch of Amityville Horror for kick.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Though the story is as creaky as a plantation porch, Iain Softley's lushly atmospheric The Skeleton Key does offer a few nifty twists on the classic 'woman in peril' picture.
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Neither scary nor thrilling, although it's reasonably entertaining despite an abundance of haunted-house cliches, the usual inexplicable scary-movie behavior and an almost-naked John Hurt.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
A formulaic fear-fest with a bare-bones plot, The Skeleton Key is more moody than scary, and Hudson's heroine is unsympathetic.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A top-notch cast was gathered and then wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Blame screenwriter Ehren Kruger (Arlington Road). I can't tell if this hit-and-miss scribe is a remarkably talented guy who's unfortunately had a few misfires or if his few good scripts were just the result of a large amount of blind luck.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
A blundering New Orleans-set thriller under the spell of archaic stereotypes about Southern Bayou blacks.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
Skeleton Key is for the most part neither horrifying nor thrilling, and its mystery is mostly related to trying to figure out what the filmmakers were thinking.
Zap2it.com
Dan Fienberg
The meandering, but occasionally effective film relies on a semi-logical and semi-satisfying twist ending to patch over myriad flaws in logic and storytelling.
Detroit News
Tom Long
A pretty good movie.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
This is a moody, creepy thriller with some genuinely scary moments and a couple of twists that took me completely by surprise.
Washington Post
Jen Chaney
The Skeleton Key delivers on all formulaic counts, except one: It never serves up any truly nightmare-inspiring scares.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A diverting, stylish thriller that, despite pivoting on that and other whoppers, deserves credit for creating an authentic, original vibe.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
The Skeleton Key looks great and oozes atmosphere, but unfortunately it's the atmosphere of hundreds of haunted house movies before it.
USA Today
This is essentially a haunted-house horror flick that starts off with effectively eerie scenes but devolves into a forced and mildly ridiculous ghost story.
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