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(1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 44% Rotten Page   1   2/5 "The only real mystery ... is what is this great ensemble cast doing in such a poorly executed movie?"   Eye for Film   Amber Wilkinson "A creepy, atmospheric and lushly filmed supernatural thriller"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 6/10 "For a widescreen studio creeper, Skeleton Key may not be The Others, but it at least invites comparison. "   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens B "In a rare moment for the genre, it does get better as it rolls along, and that’s good enough for me."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf B "Full props for story and acting, even if the slow pace and predictable racial profiling of this thriller half-mires it into the Louisiana swamps it celebrates."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher .5/4 "Interminable from minute one..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "It's all a lot of hoodoo."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Has its merits, mostly of the visual & aural variety, but thrill-seekers looking for a reason to keep the lights on at bedtime are bound to feel more than a little gypped."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 1.5/4 "In the tradition of Angel Heart, it looks to stir cultural anxiety by introducing a pretty white thing into a sinister world where "black" magic reigns supreme."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B- "If the movie doesn't exactly compliment your intelligence, at least it doesn't insult it, either."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "Nothing in the South can rise again without being overcome by hundreds of years of homespun logic and Ehren Kruger clichés."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B+ "There's a refreshing cleanliness and sparseness to the storytelling here -- no digressions into drawn-out horror set pieces, no gratuitous displays of violence and gore."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "...a callow and creepy country-fried caper that engages in cheap-minded scare tactics...about as exciting as sipping mint julep on a scorching August afternoon"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D "Utter hooey...more likely to leave you shaking with laughter than with fright."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/4 "The Skeleton Key delivers its share of cheap scares but never unlocks the door to the creepiness that would have made this is memorable movie-going experience."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli '2/4' "Southern-fried mumbo-jumbo has its gothic moments but the abysmal finale is unforgivable."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 2.5/4 "Es predecible y soporífera, llena de clichés y lugares comunes, sin lograr crear nunca la atmósfera adecuada para que el espectador logre una conexión emocional"   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 3.0/4.0 "... this isn’t a horror film, but its black heart is in the right place..."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3.5/5 "While it has its jumpy moments, it’s really more of a suspense movie and mystery than a horror film."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C+ "...while not actually scary, features terrific Southern Gothic production design, credible acting and a fairly effective twist ending"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/5 "Somewhere past the one-hour mark, it's hard not to start rooting for the bad juju."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh B- "The Skeleton Key conjures a spooky atmosphere steeped in the mystique of folk magic and medicine and suspicion of the deep South."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[T]here’s some remarkable psychological insight in this scary little movie. Which isn’t to say that it isn’t all utter nonsense, either..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Here’s a B-movie that knows it’s a B-movie, yet is intent on being a really good B-movie. And it is."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "A blundering New Orleans-set thriller under the spell of archaic stereotypes about Southern Bayou blacks."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "O que me leva a recomendar esta produção é seu desfecho – uma conclusão que respeita a lógica interna da trama."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2.5/5 "The Skeleton Key isn’t exactly dull...but it isn’t scary either."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3/5 "A preposterously enjoyable Southern gothic thriller."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "The voodoo lore is sketchy (it can't hurt unbelievers, except when it can), the plot obviously little but build-up to the big reveal."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves 2.5/5 "a parade of phony horror clichés meant to generate predictably cheap scares"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 6/10 "Spooky yet shallow, finding bizarre, brooding tension in what's behind that ominous, forbidding door - to scare you on a hot summer's night."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 1/4 "Screenwriter Ehren Kruger's latest illiterate piece of crap."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 3/5 Read review   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 2.5/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr.  (1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 44% Rotten Page   1