The Skeleton Key (2005)
Genres: Horror, Supernatural
Cast: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, John Hurt, Jeryl Prescott, Forrest Landis, Ronald McCall
The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American Southern Gothic supernatural horror film directed by Iain Softley, written by Ehren Kruger, and starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joy Bryant. The narrative follows a New Orleans hospice nurse who begins a job at a Terrebonne Parish plantation home, and becomes entangled in a supernatural mystery involving the house, its former inhabitants, and Hoodoo rituals and spells that took place there.