
The Skeleton Key is a 2005 psychological thriller film starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joy Bryant. The film focuses on a young hospice nurse who acquires a job at a spooky New Orleans plantation home, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving the house, its former inhabitants, and the hoodoo (folk magic) rituals and magic that took place there. The movie was released in cinemas in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2005, and in the US on August 12, 2005.