The Skeleton Key (2005)

[Todd Tomorrow]

I think The Skeleton Key is an excellent supernatural thriller and far better than most of its kind. It's driven by several excellent performances, most of all by the legendary Gena Rowlands as the most

[Show spoiler]malevolent old witch since Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby.

. Kate Hudson makes for a likeable lead when not cast in one of those terrible romcoms she mostly stars in. Unlike many horror films it actually has a good reason for its gothic ambiance

[Show spoiler](it's there to make the heroine believe in the supernatural because it only works on believers)

, the takes us into a realm of US folklore rarely explored and it features a genuinely clever twist. I still think the film is quite underrated. Since it came out, I've introduced the film to quite a few people who never heard of it and they all enjoyed it.

The reviewer to a large extend appears to review bottom of the barrel trash like the Asylum mockbusters and recently awarded a universally ridiculed fundamentalists Christian propaganda film 4.5 stars.