 Horror movies are rarely critics' cup of tea, but some are saying that The Skeleton Key may be their bag of popcorn. Jan Stuart in Newsday writes: "Gothic horror is just the ticket for August, a time when those of us who are not at the beach working on our skin cancer may be looking for the movie equivalent of the beach read." Manohla Dargis in the New York Times describes it as "one of the most enjoyably inane movies of the season." Carina Chocano in the Los Angeles Times writes that it "is tightly plotted and suspenseful enough to keep you guessing until the satisfying, unexpected end, which is worth suspending disbelief for." Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer calls it "stylishly spooky" and says that the movie, set in Louisiana, "offers a rich gumbo of menace, mystery and magic -- and then lets it go cold and mushy." And Bruce Westbrook in the Houston Chronicle dismisses it as a "formulaic fear-fest with a bare-bones plot ... more moody than scary." |
