“What’s this? A surprisngly good horror movie? Blasphemy! Those haven’t existed since the good old days.”
This is the typical reaction I’m getting from people when I tell them that the Skeleton Key is actually a good movie. But it is. It really is.
First off, the story itself is actually unique. Oh sure, there’s a big old spooky house. But, rather then it being on the edge of town, it’s actually in the Swamps near New Orleans. Instead of this house being completely set apart, we see early on that the entire area is very desolate and home to some deformed people.
Caroline (Kate Hudson) is a young Nurse-turned-Hospus-worker who goes to take care of an old man who is bed-ridden and has a paralyzed face (meaning he can’t speak- although it looks like he has a lot to say). Once in the house, Caroline also has to deal with the fact that the man has an annoyingly creepy wife (Gena Rowlands) and the fact that there are ghosts in the house.
The movie itself is a perfect mixture of learning about the past of the house, learning about magic, and watching Caroline slowly unravelling the mystery about how the husband became paralyzed. All of this escalades into one exciting climax with a very satisfying twist that people have compared to the Sixth Sense and The Others (don’t worry, she isn’t the ghost).
Enough out of me, go see it.
8.6/10
Jockamo fee nané.
Apparently that song (Iko Iko or Jock-A-Mo) is much more famous than The Skeleton Key or Captain Jack.
This song is one of the most well known Mardi Gras songs, and has been featured in Rain Man and Mission Impossible 2, and has been covered by Cyndi Lauper and the Grateful Dead!