The Skeleton Key (DVD) Reviews

This was another film I caught on TV the other night and another I had been wanting to watch for ages. We saw it advertised at the cinema yonks ago and the trailer really caught mine and my wife's interest so when we saw it in the T.V listings, we decided to make a point to try and watch it together.... Set in the already creepy state ...  Read the complete review

I watched this when it was on the television a few weeks ago as it caught my eye, me the horror/thriller fan I am! I can't say it's original in that much of the ground has been covered many a time before, but it's worth a watch. The Skeleton key was released in 2005 and is rated certificate 15, probably because it's deemed 'scary'. It ...  Read the complete review

I'm a sucker for a film with a twist. So it would seem are a lot of other people, which is why so many of them get made. They fall, though, into two significant categories; either great films with a twist, or films with a great twist - where both seem to exist, it's inevitably because the preamble's so good. The Skeleton Key is one of those second ...  Read the complete review

So how come the beautiful daughter of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn is called Kate Hudson? The bigger mystery is why such a young talked up actress is already doing predictable horror movies, which effectively means being shown the backdoor in Hollywood terms as far as her A-List status goes. Although Radio Fives no-all film critic Mark Kermode ...  Read the complete review

I am hugely into creepy/mystery films and was not let down by this. Written by Ehren Kruger and directed by Iain Softley this film is about Caroline (Kate Hudson) who is working in a nursing home. The opening scenes see her reading to a patient whilst he passes away. In the next scene you see her being told to dump the patient's ...  Read the complete review

- Credits - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/fullcredits - Story - A hospice nurse called Caroline answers an ad in the local paper for a couple and ends up looking after an old man called Ben Deveraux who suffered a stroke recently, at the couples rather creepy old house in the woodlands in New ...  Read the complete review

The skeleton key is a Crime/Thriller film about Caroline (Kate Hudson) who is employed to look after an old invalid in a creepy new orleand house. The house is next to the bayou and is surrounded by swamp and trees. The owner of the house is an old lady with strange superstitions. Caroline is given a skeleton key, a key which can open all doors ...  Read the complete review

==="Introduction"=== There is a key that will open all doors to a house and is called the skeleton key. It is the key used by the owner to access all the doors in his house, all doors except to a room at the attic. What does that mean? ==="Cast"=== Kate Hudson - Caroline Ellis Gena Rowlands - Violet ...  Read the complete review

Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) gives up her job as a nurse at a hospital in New Orleans to work as an in-house carer in a mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans for Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), a stroke victim on his last legs who can no longer walk or talk. Caroline is given a skeleton key by Devereaux's wife Violet (Gena Rowlands) which allows her ...  Read the complete review

Before watching this movie, I had low expectations of it being any good. My sister had told me how much she hated this movie, and we usually like the same movies. Well on this movie we disagree. I really like this movie. I like the whole Cajun setting, hoodoo element (not voodoo, hoodoo- old African magic), the suspense, the twisted ending. This ...  Read the complete review

Caroline Ellis is dissatisfied with her job as a care worker in an old people's home. Her problem is that she seems to care too much. When one particular old man dies, she is shocked by the callous way in which his belongings are discarded by the rest home and decides that she wants to do something where she can actually look after people ...  Read the complete review

If a supernatural thriller with ups and downs resolved by happy ending is what you are looking for, then this it not for you. That is not a cue to start guessing the ending before or during the film, but a warning for those who prefer all their loose ends to be tied up in a neat little package before the closing credits appear. If you prefer the ...  Read the complete review

This is a story of Voodoo magic set in the swamplands of Louisiana............................ Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) is a young nurse working in a hospice caring for the elderly sick and dying, downhearted and disilusioned seeing her patients die one after another in the cold confines of the hospice, she decides to move ...  Read the complete review

I am a fan of horror movies but they always seem to be so predictable don’t they so I was not expecting much from the Skeleton Key when I rented it. I just thought it looked quite interesting and I do like Kate Hudson as I think she is a fun actress. My sister watched it before me and said it was enjoyable so I gave it a go and it was not half ...  Read the complete review

Directed by: Iain Softley Cast: Kate Hudson....................Caroline Ellis Gena Rowlands...............Violet Devereaux John Hurt...........................Ben Devereaux Peter Sarsgaard...............Luke Joy Bryant...........................Jill Ronald McCall...................Papa Justify ...  Read the complete review

Caroline Ellis worked as a care assistant in an old peoples home, but when one of her patients dies and the establishment treats his personal effects with disrespect and is told that she 'cares to much' she hands in her notice and looks for a new job. In the paper she finds an advertisement for a personal helper situated in the Deep South. Her ...  Read the complete review

The world of voodoo and witchcraft is one that’s alien to most of us in the main. Maybe a trip to New Orleans or even Haiti would open one's eyes to its existence but it’s a subject that gets little in the way of airtime. So the producers of the movie “The Skeleton Key” may have been on to something when it comes to originality and suspense. Well, ...  Read the complete review