content: the skeleton key stars hudson as caroline, a young female who takes a job caring for an old man whose health has declined after suffering from a stroke. right from the beggining, the move is truly spooky. to make things worse, the house looks a lot like the one used for the texas chainsaw masscare remake, only that the skeleton key's house is surrounded by a lot of creepy looking trees.after hudson opens the attic and finds a whole bunch of creepy stuff, she finds out that the house was used for hoodoo. yes, hoodoo, not voodoo. she also learns that the old man probably didnt get sick because of a stroke, its the work of his wife, played wonderfully by geene rowlands.after that, the movie builds up to the biggest jaw dropper since the sixth sense, and like the trailer says, it will have everyone speaking.