After spending the previous couple of weeks on J.A. Bayona’s ghost story The Orphanage (pay attention), Jack Nicholson’s commanding efficiency in George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (pay attention), and a well timed dialogue of James Whale’s Frankenstein (pay attention), we wanted some mid-aughts consolation meals.
Enter Iain Softley’s 2005 movie The Skeleton Key, a Southern Gothic story about Caroline (Kate Hudson), an impressionable younger hospice aide who takes a job at a distant plantation in opposition to the recommendation of her roommate, Jill (Joy Bryant).
Tensions abound between Caroline and the matriarch of the home, Violet (Gena Rowlands), who has very explicit calls for about easy methods to deal with her husband Ben (John Hurt). The guidelines lengthen to the home itself, which is bereft of mirrors and has a single locked door within the attic that Caroline’s titular skeleton key gained’t open.
Clearly, there’s one thing extra happening, and as Caroline investigates, she turns into extra immersed in hoodoo, a observe she barely understands. With the assist of the Devereaux’s property lawyer, Luke (Peter Sarsgaard), Caroline will cease at nothing to make sure Ben’s security, even when it more and more means she’s placing her personal future in jeopardy.
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Episode 360: The Skeleton Key (2005)
Lay down a line of protecting brick mud and scream “I don’t believe!” as a result of we’re discussing Iain Softley’s 2005 Southern Gothic thriller, The Skeleton Key.
Starring Kate Hudson and Gena Rowlands, this Ehren Kruger joint has an ideal twist (or is it a reveal?) which will or could not have dicey racial implications.
Plus: not trusting Peter Sarsgaard, Black character exposition, the distinction between hoodoo and voodoo, and the ending we nonetheless can’t consider a studio signed off on!
Cross out The Skeleton Key!
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