I’m hot. You’re… well, you’re a little limp. Sue’s easy to see through. And Ben’s always been a hardass.

The title of this movie is at least half accurate. There are four of them.

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From these chains, Lord, break me.
From this prison, Lord, take me.

The Skeleton Key is a mildly effective thriller marred by a twist ending that seems to undermine everything that made it effective in the first place. Like The Others, another supernatural thriller about a woman left mostly alone in a dark, shambling mansion, The Skeleton Key seems to suffer from “M. Night Shyamalan syndrome,” the belief that these quasi-supernatural thrillers require that the plot throw the audience a curve. Unlike The Others, however, the curveball here misses the strike zone.

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