Gothika (DVD)

Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) seemingly has it all -a doting husband, brilliant career as a criminal psychologist in a maximum security asylum - and a gorgeous home in the American suburbs. However all this is about to change as she heads home one night via a detour after her main route is blocked by a sinkhole in the road. It's a dismal rainy night and Miranda spots a ravaged ghostly figure in the road, and swerving to avoid her she crashes down a shallow embankment. Stumbling out of the car, dazed and confused she climbs the muddy slope to try and reach the bloodied nightdress clad figure to assist her. What follows next is the last thing ...  Read the complete review

Dr Miranda Grey is a brilliant psychiatrist who works with the inmates of an American penitentiary for the criminally insane. After a particularly difficult session with a disturbed young woman named Chloe, she goes to the office of her colleague and husband Douglas and shares a drink with him before he sets off home and she finishes off some paperwork. Finally, she grows weary herself and sets off home in her car. As she reaches a regular stretch of the road, she becomes aware of a roadblock and is advised by the attending sheriff that the road is closed due to an accident. To make the short journey home, Miranda must make a detour and travel via a different route. ...  Read the complete review

Sucked in by the trailer that seemed reminiscent of The Ring and distaining all the poor reviews I had read previously, last night I subjected myself to Gothika. It is a psychological horror/ghost story/mystery, which usually I love and it?s the latest vehicle for Halle Berry, the 2001 Best Actress Oscar winner. Dr. Miranda Grey (Berry) is a psychiatrist in a criminal asylum. She seems happily married to the head psychiatrist of the facility (Charles Dutton). Treating one of the prisoners, Chloe Sava (Penelope Cruz) she hears stories of rape and marks it all ...  Read the complete review

When 'Gothika' came out in 2004 I went to see it in the first week of its release. It wouldn't have been my first choice of film, however a friend of mine had been looking forward to its release for some time and therefore I was dragged along to the cinema by him, something I was not complaining too much about as it sounded like an interesting concept for a film and one that I would potentially enjoy a great deal. I am not the biggest fan of Halle Berry in the world, that's for sure, but I don't exactly dislike the actress and have enjoyed some of the roles she has played in the past so that was not at all going to be a problem. 'Gothika' begins with great ...  Read the complete review

Gothika begins as a thriller that revolves around Psychiatrist Miranda Grey played by Halle Berry. She is busy treating patients at a Penitentiary in Woodward. This place is pretty spooky and is a dark forboding place. As the movie starts we see Miranda engaged in a dramatic and scary interview with her patient Chloe played by Penelope Cruz. We find that she has been institutionalized in the facility. Next we catch up with Miranda taking a swim to relieve the stresses of the day and then driving home. It is on the drive home that she is unable to travel her regular route home. This detour alters her life forever. She swerves off the road so as not to hit a ...  Read the complete review