Rating: PG13
Genre:
Thriller
Theatrical Release: 08/12/2005(USA)
Release Date: 05/22/2007
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
A young woman discovers a terrible secret while caring for an elderly man in this
supernatural thriller.
Caroline (
Kate Hudson) is a care provider for the aged who is hired away from the hospice where she works by
Violet Devereaux (
Gena Rowlands).
Violet needs someone to help take care of her husband,
Ben (
John Hurt), who is in poor health and doesn't have long to live.
Violet and
Ben live in a decaying rattletrap mansion not far from New Orleans, and as she settles into her work,
Caroline spends her spare time exploring the house. It isn't long before
Caroline discovers evidence that suggests
Ben and
Violet are members of a sinister voodoo cult, and that ghosts walk in the
Devereaux mansion.
The Skeleton Key also stars
Peter Sarsgaard and
Joy Bryant.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide