The Skeleton Key

Last night, we saw The Skeleton Key. It was a good change from the recent horror movies that we've seen - there wasnt as much blood, and gore, and flesh, and bear traps, and syringes. I guess, we can call this as an old-fashioned horror movie; one with ghosts instead of demented people trying to disfigure other almost demented people. There were parts of it which were creepy, but the whole movie wasnt as scary as the trailers of it were (of which I remember faintly), or perhaps our horror-tolerance level has gone up pretty high (I would like to mention here, thanks to movies such as SAW I/II, and House of Wax, to name a few.)

The most intruiging part of the whole movie that I felt was the house itself. It was the sole piece of man-made construction for miles. No one, nothing around for miles but the swamp. The cold, damp driveway, the dark halls.. All this in itself is creepy, and we havent talked about ghosts in it as yet! Wouldnt all of us like to live in a warm place? Think again. Well, if you have seen Dark Water, the setting in it is completely antithetic. The apartment complex in it is in New York. Its bang in the middle of everything. Theres people, other buildings, a factory of some sort across the river, parks, cars, buses, a couple of very busy, heavily trafficked bridges, even a cable car for that matter. Now, if youve seen that movie, I'm sure you remember what a scary place that was too! The two settings are stark contrasts of each other, but the story-tellers have done a great job to scare us in both of them!