The Skeleton Key (2005) ( Der verbotene Schlüssel )

The Skeleton Key (2005) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Der verbotene Schlüssel
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Iain Softley

Written By:
Ehren Kruger

Actors:
Kate Hudson ..... Caroline Ellis
Gena Rowlands ..... Violet Devereaux
John Hurt ..... Ben Devereaux
Peter Sarsgaard ..... Luke Marshall
Joy Bryant ..... Jill
Maxine Barnett ..... Mama Cynthia
Fahnlohnee R. Harris ..... Hallie
Marion Zinser ..... Bayou Woman
Deneen Tyler ..... Desk Nurse
Ann Dalrymple ..... C.N.A.
Trula M. Marcus ..... Nurse Trula
Tonya Staten ..... Nurse Audrey
Thomas Uskali ..... Robertson Thorpe
Jen Apgar ..... Madeleine Thorpe
Forrest Landis ..... Martin Thorpe

Synopsis:

Caroline is a twenty-five-year-old hospice worker who cares for the ailing and the elderly, a job designed to atone for her own mistake for ignoring her dying father in the past, when she had been a rock 'n' roll manager. After her latest charge passes away, Caroline takes a job in Louisiana, caring for Ben, a stroke-victim who is bed-ridden and cannot speak. But Caroline becomes suspicious of the house, and Ben's cold wife, Violet only adds to the creepy atmosphere. After acquiring a skeleton key, Caroline makes her way into a secret room within the attic where she discovers hair, blood, bones, spells, and other instruments for practicing hoodoo. Violet says she has never been in the secret room, but that the items probably belonged to the original owners' two houseworkers, who practiced black magic and were lynched as a result. Noting that Ben had his stroke in the attic after entering the room, Caroline is determined to unlock the secrets of the house, and rescue Ben from the horrors that hold him captive within.

The nurse Caroline Ellis decides to quit her job in a hospital and work for a family in the swamps of Terrebone Parish, Louisiana, one hour far from New Orleans. The family lawyer Luke hires her for US$ 1,000.00 per week to take care of Ben Devereaux, the beloved husband of Violet Devereaux, who had a stroke and is totally paralyzed. Violet gives a skeleton key of the huge house to Caroline, and the curious young woman finds a secret creepy hoodoo room in a scary attic that belonged to a couple of sorcerers that worked in the house. Caroline, who does not believe in magic, decides to learn about hoodoo, and believes Violet put an evil spell on Ben. She decides to help the invalid man, and asks for help to Luke.

A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Hoodoo practitioners. (Hoodoo is not Voodoo, it's of a different culture. Voodoo is Haitian while Hoodoo is an old African American magic that just like Voodoo only works if you believe in it.)

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 28 February, 2018.