LA PORTE DES SECRETS
The Skeleton Key
Caroline, une infirmière à domicile, est engagée pour s'occuper du mari souffrant d'une vieille femme dans leur maison décrépie située dans le delta de Louisiane. Intriguée par ce couple énigmatique, leurs comportements mystérieux et leur demeure chaotique, elle se décide à explorer la villa. Armée d'une clé passe-partout qui en ouvre toutes les portes, elle découvre une pièce cachée dans le grenier qui renferme un terrifiant secret…
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Kate Hudson
Caroline Ellis
Gena Rowlands
Violet Devereaux
Peter Sarsgaard
Luke Marshall
John Hurt
Ben Devereaux
Joy Bryant
Jill
Marion Zinser
Bayou Woman
Maxine Barnett
Mama Cynthia
Fahnlohnee R. Harris
Hallie
Deneen Tyler
Desk Nurse
Ann Dalrymple
C.N.A.
Trula M. Marcus
Nurse Trula
Jen Apgar
Madeleine Thorpe
Thomas Uskali
Robertson Thorpe
Jamie Lee Redmon
Grace Thorpe
Forrest Landis
Martin Thorpe
Tonya Staten
Nurse Audrey
Isaach de Bankolé
Creole Gas Station Owner
Christa Thorne
Creole Mother
Ronald McCall
Papa Justify
Jeryl Prescott
Mama Cecile
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Wuchak
The Louisiana bayou, an antebellum mansion, Hoodoo and Kate Hudson
A New Orleans hospice worker (Kate Hudson) takes a job at a dilapidated antebellum mansion in the bayou caring for a dying old man (John Hurt). His wife seems to be hiding something, however (Gena Rowlands). Peter Sarsgaard is on hand as the estate’s amiable lawyer.
"The Skeleton Key" (2005) is a Southern Gothic supernatural thriller set in the Louisiana bayou à la “Cat People” (1982) and “The Reaping” (2007). It’s not as good as the former, but arguably superior to the latter or at least on par. Most of the film is an eerie drama taking place in and around the old Southern mansion, but the pace picks up in the final act with a quality surprise climax. Neither my wife nor I were able to anticipate the revelation, but it makes sense and hails back to earlier obscure horror flicks which I can’t name because I don’t want to give it away.
Kate is a highlight with her cute face and the director doesn’t fail to capture her beauty in a tasteful way, but she needed to gain about 12 lbs as her thinness is un-alluring. Really, the only negatory is that the setting/cast is one-dimensional, which makes the movie tediously mundane, but this is offset by the creepy supernatural element.
The film runs 1 hour, 44 minutes, and was shot in Louisiana (Felicity Plantation, Vacherie; Bayou Gauche & New Orleans) with additional stage stuff done in Universal City, California.
GRADE: B/B-
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