The Skeleton Key - (Kate Hudson - John Hurt)(2005) Dvd Rip [Xvid-ENG]

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller



The Skeleton Key - (Kate Hudson - John Hurt)(2005)[DvdRip-Xvid-English]



Starring



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 (as Fahnlohnee Harris)

Marion Zinser ... Bayou Woman

Deneen Tyler ... Desk Nurse

Ann Dalrymple ... C.N.A.

Trula M. Marcus ... Nurse Trula (as Trula Marcus)

Tonya Staten ... Nurse Audrey

Thomas Uskali ... Robertson Thorpe (as Tom Uskali)

Jen Apgar ... Madeleine Thorpe

Forrest Landis ... Martin Thorpe



General

Complete name : The Skeleton Key

Format : AVI

Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave

File size : 700 MiB

Duration : 1h 39mn

Overall bit rate : 982 Kbps

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Video

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Format settings, BVOP : Yes

Format settings, QPel : No

Format settings, GMC : No warppoints

Format settings, Matrix : Custom

Codec ID : XVID

Codec ID/Hint : XviD

Duration : 1h 39mn

Bit rate : 853 Kbps

Width : 720 pixels

Height : 304 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 2.35

Frame rate : 25.000 fps

Resolution : 24 bits

Colorimetry : 4:2:0

Scan type : Progressive

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Stream size : 608 MiB (87%)

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Audio

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Format : MPEG Audio

Format version : Version 1

Format profile : Layer 3

Codec ID : 55

Codec ID/Hint : MP3

Duration : 1h 39mn

Bit rate mode : Variable

Bit rate : 116 Kbps

Nominal bit rate : 128 Kbps

Channel(s) : 2 channels

Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz

Resolution : 16 bits

Stream size : 82.9 MiB (12%)

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Interleave, preload duration : 158 ms

Writing library : LAME3.98r

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Language : English





IMDB Rating =



6.5/10



Plot



The Skeleton Key is about a 25-year old girl who gets a job as a caretaker living in a plantation home in Terrebone Parish, Louisiana. She soon discovers the scary attic in the house, with all sorts of hoodoo recipes, spells, books, etc. She starts to investigate and question Violet, the owner of the house, about the secrets. But if she believes in what she discovers, it will all become real!



Review From IMDB



Horror movies have become a dime a dozen in the past few years. The watchable ones seem to fall into two categories of late: misguided psychological thrillers headlined by a consummate actress (witness Naomi Watts in "The Ring 2" or Jennifer Connelly in "Dark Water") or over the top slasher/gore-fests with serious kitsch value (witness Romero's enjoyable zombie flick "Land of the Dead" or Rob Zombie's sadistic "Devil's Rejects"). All of the rest have pretty much been unbearable cliché-ridden hack jobs ("White Noise," "Darkness Falls," etc...)

Oddly enough, "The Skeleton Key" doesn't fall into any of these categories and it comes across as a breath of fresh air, an old-fashioned throwback to the traditional Gothic mystery thriller, where a pretty female outsider (Kate Hudson acquitting herself rather nicely here as the hospice nurse traveling deep into the Bayou to care for an apparent stroke victim) moves into a big old house/castle that just might be haunted. The director and screenwriter start things slowly, and do a nice job of creating a realistic setting before letting all the mumbo-jumbo slowly and effectively creep in. Gena Rowlands and John Hurt (immobile and mute for most of the film) are fairly good in their respective roles as the married couple with more than just skeletons in their closets. We've seen this stuff all before, but it's done fairly well here with no sense of flash or pretensions, and as silly (and potentially offensive) as all this Hoodoo in the Bayou stuff is, the audience is treated to a twist ending that makes perfect sense in the context we have been given. This isn't a twist ending for twisting sake, but a fitting conclusion to the story.

"The Skeleton Key" tries to remind people of classics like "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Others." It may not ultimately hold a candle to those films, but it's a very entertaining way to spend a few hours.