The Skeleton Key

The Skeleton Key (2005)




Caroline (played by Kate Hudson) is a New Orleans hospital aide from Hoboken, New Jersey, who, after her latest patient dies, quits her "medibusiness" job and takes a position as a private hospice caregiver at an isolated plantation house deep in the bayous of southern Louisiana. The lady of the house, Violet (played by Gena Rowlands) is a diffident woman who requires help to care for her husband Ben (played by John Hurt), who suffered a serious stroke which has left him paralyzed and speechless, with about a month left to live.

Violet gives Caroline a skeleton key to open every room within the large mansion, except for a small room hidden in the attic, which is where Ben had his stroke. This does not stop Caroline from eventually getting into that room, after something inside apparently rattles the door, and uncovering bizarre items including jars of pickled organs, magical objects, and a fullsize voodoo doll. Violet says to Caroline that the room belonged to two black servants who had lived in the house in the 1920s, Mama Cecile (Jeryl Prescott) and her husband, Papa Justify (Ron McCall) under a cruel employer who had them lynched in the presence of their children for practicing hoodoo. Caroline dismisses this as superstition, but the longer she stays in the house, more and more strange events occur, piquing her curiosity about the obscure (to her) swamp religions and their relationship to the physical condition of Ben, whom she has become determined to save and restore to health.

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