The Skeleton Key - Is it being overhyped?

I don't think it is. I can't wait to see it. And thanks for alerting me to the fact that there's a twist Craig.

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yes I'm serious. I switch over during TV commercials, I don't listen to the radio and I don't read reviews of horror movies, as they're always bad and I love horror movies. And the main trailer in the cinema has no mention of a twist.

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I have to agree with Craig, the point of a twist is to surprise you and give you something you didn't expect. If you tell people there is a twist they will try and figure it out, it doesn't have the same effect on you if you know there's a big twist coming. It does seem like this movie is getting much hype about it, like too much that people will be disappointed when they see it. I do want to see it even though I can't stand Kate Hudson.

I have been thinking the same thing Criag, but I hope its good have been waiting for this movie all summer. Mainly because my friends and I are tired of spending our money on really bad movies. I personally hope that she is not schizophrenic (sp?) because that has been the twist for the last few “scary” movies I have seen.

Full confidence in that? I'm wary...

*Flashbacks to Saw and how she declared it was one of the men in the room within the first two minutes...*

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hehe YAY!

Just wondering Broadway how did you already see it, and if its your job...can I have it?

After reading some of the reviews I've come to the conclusion that Skeleton Key is a stinker.
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After reading some of the reviews I've come to the conclusion that Skeleton Key is a stinker.

The movie got mixed reviews, and you only happen to be looking at the negative ones. Besides, if the movie looks like it's your cup of tea, then you should enjoy it.

I sure hope not because I LOVE(and own) what they've compared it to, The sixth sense, The Others and Rosemary's Baby(I especially love this one!). So, I'm hoping not.

I know people think twists are impossible to guess, but oddly enough - when my 78 year old mother and a group of her contemporaries went to see The Sixth Sense, they were bored to death because they said they all figured it out in the first 5 minutes or so - which really surprises me. Maybe people with buttloads of life experience have one up on the rest of us!

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I am not reading any of the posts in this thraed beyond the initial one because I know someone is going to give away too much. So, I may be reapeating what has been said already. My partner and I love horror movies and we've both been disappionted with everything taht has come out this year so far. This is it, my last hope for a good horror movie, one that will scare me and keep awake, one that will make afraid of going into the basement to do laundry....oh, wait, I'm already afraid of that.

We saw The Devil's Rejects recently and thought it was terrible compared to House of 1,000 Corpses...where the hell is Karen Black when you need her? The Amercian versions of Japanese horror movies are egtting old fast. The Japanese really know how to work a theme to death. First we had 500 versions of Godzilla and now The Ring, over and over. Ok, I get it, water is scarey when it comes dripping out from an unknown source....it brings overly made up dead children with too much hair product that look like rejects from a NIN concert.

I'll see Skeleton Key this weekend and hope for the best.

and to answer your question, yes it does seem a bit over hyped but then almost every movie does. I'm sick of looking at Jessica Simpson skinny, underdeveloped thighs everytime I turn on the tv and have to look at her in her Daisy Dukes.

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Updated On: 8/12/05 at 07:49 PM

I wasn't crazy about the movie either, but... are you sure that you figured it all out? I don't see how that's possible. If you want, PM me. I'm interested to see how you figured it out before the clues came up.