The Skeleton Key(Movie, 2005)

Name: The Skeleton Key
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 2005
Duration: T01:44:00
Rating: 3.3

PG-13

| 1h 44min | Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 962 votes)

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. ()

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About The Skeleton Key

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

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Trailer for The Skeleton Key + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

The Skeleton Key Trailer(Trailer, 2:18)

The Skeleton Key Trailer (Trailer) | Trailer (Trailer) | Deutscher Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production countries: Germany, United States of America (USA)

Shot in: New Orleans (Louisiana)

Plays in: New Orleans (Louisiana)

Made by: Universal Pictures, Double Feature Films, Daniel Bobker Productions, MFPV Film, ShadowCatcher Entertainment, Brick Dust Productions LLC

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 28 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 08/12/2005 (World premiere: 07/29/2005)

Cast: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaardd, John Hurt, Joy Bryant, Forrest Landis, Jeryl Prescott, Isaach de Bankolé

Director: Iain Softley

Producer: Stacey Sher

Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger

Film Editor: Joe Hutshing

Director of Photography: Daniel Mindel

Composer: Edward Shearmur

Production Designer: John Beard

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"La porte des secrets"

"毒钥"

"Luukerevõti"

"La llave Maestra"

"Kvela karis gasagebi"

"To antikleidi"

"Ključ tajni"

"스켈리톤키"

"La llave Maestra"

"Nøkkelen"

"Ključ tajni"

"Odklenjena skrivnost"

"La Llave del Mal"

"Iskelet anahtar"

Keywords: nurse, key, dream, kidnapping, southern gothic, attic, hoodoo, lawyer, new orleans, louisiana, plantation, fight, occult

Budget: 43,000,000 USD

Revenue: 93,983,911 USD (= 219%)