The Skeleton Key: Directed by Iain Softley. With Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard. A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

Caroline becomes suspicious of the house, and Ben's cold wife Violet (Gena Rowlands) only adds to the creepy atmosphere. After acquiring a skeleton key, Caroline makes her way into a secret room in the attic where she discovers hair, blood, bones, spells, and other instruments for practicing Hoodoo.

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The Skeleton Key is set in Lousiana where twenty five year old Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) works as a nurse, she applies for a job at a large plantation just outside New Orleans where the owner Ben Devereaux (John Hurt) has just suffered a stroke & is paralysed & unable to speak.

After young lawyer Luke Marshall (Peter Sarsgaard) convinces Violet that Caroline is best suited for the job, Violet accepts Caroline into her employ and gives her a skeleton key that opens all the doors in the house. Caroline finds a secret room in the attic that contains hoodoo items linking to a couple named Mama Cecile and her husband Papa ...

The Skeleton Key: Directed by Iain Softley. With Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard. A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

The Skeleton Key: Directed by Iain Softley. With Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard. 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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For a PG-13 film, The Skeleton Key is very vicious and violent, more so than such other modern PG-13 ghost films as "The Apparition" or "The Eye" People are beaten, thrown around, slammed into things, and choked.

The Skeleton Key is on Starz at 9.15 Pm and follows a nurse who is caring for a elderly stroke patient. However, there is more the victim and the mansion they live in than meets the eye, a creepy twist that will send a shiver down your spine.