Just saw the skeleton key,I must say that it's a verry nice thriller the end has a Gabriel Garcia Marques kinda twist.
I wanna see it but the theatre in this terrible little town I moved to wont play it. They wouldnt even play The Devils Rejects or High Tension. Good thing I got my hands on a copy of HT before it was ever released in the states, and got to see it in all of it's uncut, gory glory.
Hey I just made this thread ok well anyway yea I saw it too yesterday. It was ausome!! It made me jump a few times and man the ending was a twister. I thought it was gonna be diffrent at the end. So now you definetly know their needs to be a sequal!!
Yeah, i'm supposed to be reviewing this for my uni magazine...I'm kind of undecided. Like, i thought it was a LOT creepier than the plethora of shithouse horror movies that have come out recently, they did the whole southern gothicy thing really well. Only, i kind of thought it was a little predictable... but still, it was better than, say, House of Wax... and kate hudson was great in it, i think she's a great actress. but yeah.
Didn't like it. I loved the atmosphere. The acting was decent, but I figured out the plot twist about 15 minutes into the film, so the rest of the movie was just confirmation that I was right, and me hoping fruitlessly that there was a twist I didn't see. Plus, I didn't think it was scary. I kept waiting to be scared, and it never happened.
yeah, i didn't find the movie scary either. I also figured out the 'twist' pretty early on and i'm usually one who always misses the obvious. I liked it however. Makes me want to get a nice southern plantation house
I went to see this movie through lack of anything else on and although I love a good horror, I was disapointed with this one overall. It wasn't horrible, but it was a bit...tepid. Some aspects of the storyline were pretty weak and the older lady co-star, I found her performance to be quite irritating.
Skeleton Key is a remake.... the original is kinda cool... i'm too chicken to see the new version in the theatre but will see when out on video
Don't be chicken if you think you're going to be scared, as i doubt that would happen... The only 'scary' bits are the typical ones you get in horror movies lacking in original sources of terror ie: Tense, quiet moments where you're waiting for something to jump out followed by a sudden loud noise and flash etc... *yawn* I'm jaded on horror movies after seeing so many when I was younger.
This had the makings of a classic. Tragically it was let down by certain unforgivable factors... On the plus side, the setting in occultish New Orleans was creepy enough and envisaged images of Angelheart and Inteview With A Vampire. Also, the brief insight into the hoodoo cult (and its differences to voodoo) was actually fascinating; it's always nice to learn something new whilst watching a film. The acting, however, maybe through no fault of the actors, was professional, but they didn't portray any characters that you could really say you felt sorry for. Compare with Mickey Rourke's performance in Angelheart, for instance. And if there's one thing I hate about certain Hollywoodesque horror films, is that gimick of making you jump, when in fact something entirely innocent and without context to the plot has happened. Example: man is walking in a dark house, creepy music building up to a climax...short silence...nothing.... AAAAAAARGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Something has jumped out of the corner, and at the same time there's a big boom sound with every single subwoofer tecnhology and money can create. So loud that you think a bomb's just gone off. You shake like an epileptic in your seat, your hands tremble, the ketchup from your hotdog has just fallen on your girl's new blouse, and you're choking on your diet coke. And that's supposed to be scary! Then you find that the source of the fact that almost just gave you a coronary, is nothing more than a little black cat, or something similar along those lines. And you're supposed to think: " Phew, for a moment I thought it was the killer/witch/zombie/David Copperfield/satan , how silly of me to be scared with something that has no relevance to the film, or indeed anything within existance." Indeed, how fucking silly. Well, tell you what. If I show you Bamby, and next to your ear drum I'll connect one of the four jet engines of a Boeing 747. And every time there's a really quiet moment and you think "Ahhhhh! Isn't little Bumby the Deer cute?" I'll turn on the ignition and set the turbine to maximum thrust. I bet Bamby will then be the most horrifying film you've ever seen! People will be mentioning Bamby to you and you'll be having post traumatic stress disorder. Suddenly White Scorpion is a Master of Horror films! Who cares if the methods he uses are cheap gimmicks? You see his films and you shit yourself. Literally. Something went seriously wrong in this film and I wasn't sure what it was, until I left the cinema. Spoiler content: (BTW, if you haven't seen the movie and planning to see it, I suggest you don't read any further) Go back to what I said earlier. 'This had the makings of a classic', yet I'm also saying that this was averaging on the borderline of crap! In fact it was a J-cloth skirmishing the rim of a latrine that has just been visited by a very fat person whose anus squirts like the fountain at the Belagio Hotel and Casino in Vegas. Now, let us pretend that we're making this film. We have to examine the plot line carefully to see how we can make the most of it and what would really sell this film? Controversy? Absofuckinglutely right. They had it on a silver plate and I can't believe they threw it away to the point of insignificance. Fumble. No touchdown given. For those who have seen the movie I will now explain fully: Remember that the old lady was telling the young nurse that many years ago there lived a rich family with two kids, a boy and a girl, and they also had two servants, a black man and his wife? We're then told that the servant couple were heavily mixed up in hoodoo magic. Fine. Then there was a party and the guests went searching for the two children and found them in the attic sitting in a magic circle practising devilry. Oops! The two black servants, who were also in the room, and in a trance, were grabbed by the rich white guests, taken down to the courtyard and strung up from the tree. They then set light to them, whilst laughing and grinning. The scene was grotesque from the human side of nature. But that's by far not the worst. It is very easy to miss it, because the film doesn't focus on the depth of evil, which surely should be the aim of a good horror film. BIG SPOILER(CLOSE YOUR EYES> LAST WARNING) The revelation is(and a bit predictable, too): that the old woman is the young black maid blah blah blah and blah blah blah. And yet, although the young blonde dame that stuck her nose where it didn't belong feels terror as her body is swapped and she ends up as the shitty granny. And the lawyer is her husband, And the ol boy who had a stroke is actually the young man who's the lawyer and BIG FUCKING DEAL! Cue dramatic music and a nice gradual fade of the South and The End. Fuck off home. Imagine a normal person who just finds out that the old woman and the lawyer are really the two black devil worshippers from way back in time and that they had been swapping their souls into other peoples bodies. They then leave the possessed house in the will to the person that they emulate, so that indeed they would retain the house. Now go back to where the children were found trembling in the circle and the servants were having a fit. You see? They hanged the CHILDREN! The kids were suddenly in the bodies of their servants and you can't imagine how they felt. I shudder just thinking about it! Meanwhile those white racist fucks hanged and burned their own kids, thinking that it was their black servants and danced around them laughing at them! It's difficult to imagine a worse picture of hell and this is what I mean that this SHOULD have been not just a classic, but the most disturbing film ever made. Instead, the director and production company chickened out. In which case, they should have let someone else do it and stick to making Bamby. P.S. I deserve an extra note of congratulation for my considerate behaviour in searching this old thread, rather than start a new one. You people are so lucky!
