Gothika (2003)

Director:

Mathieu Kassovitz

Guionista (WGA):

Sebastian Gutierrez (written by)

Release Date:

21 noviembre 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller | Mystery

Frase comercial:

Because someone is dead doesn't mean they're gone.

Plot:

Ghost story in which a repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no memory of why she is there and what she has done.

Plot Keywords:

Person On Fire | Underwater Scene | Mental Institution | Supernatural | Axe

Awards:

1 win & 7 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Scary, reasonably good movie

Cast

Halle Berry	...	Miranda Grey
Robert Downey Jr.	...	Pete Graham
Charles S. Dutton	...	Dr. Douglas Grey
John Carroll Lynch	...	Sheriff Ryan
Bernard Hill	...	Phil Parsons
Penélope Cruz	...	Chloe Sava
Dorian Harewood	...	Teddy Howard
Bronwen Mantel	...	Irene
Kathleen Mackey	...	Rachel Parsons
Matthew G. Taylor	...	Turlington
Michel Perron	...	Joe
Andrea Sheldon	...	Tracey Seavers
Anana Rydvald	...	Glass Cell Nurse
Laura Mitchell	...	Inmate
Amy Sloan	...	Inmate

También conocida como:

En compañía del miedo (Argentina) [es]
En compañía del miedo... espíritus ocultos (Mexico) [es]
Gothika (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, brief language and nudity.

Duración:

98 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | South Korea:15 | France:-12 | USA:R (certificate #40310) | Finland:K-15 | Malaysia:18PL | Iceland:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Japan:PG-12 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Canada:14A | Germany:16 | Ireland:18 | Norway:15 | Philippines:R-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

Halle Berry broke her arm filming a scene with Robert Downey Jr.. Downey was supposed to grab her arm and twist but twisted too hard and the arm snapped. Production was halted for eight weeks.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Pete is talking to Miranda for the first time after the murder and is crouched with his back to the cell door, there are two plastic cups standing on the floor. As he rises, the cups have changed positions and one is now lying on the floor facing Pete.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Chloe: He came back again last night and tore me like paper. He opened me like a flower of pain, and it felt good. He sank into me and set me on fire, like he always does. Made me burn from the inside out.
Miranda: How did you know it was the devil?

Movie Connections:

References Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Soundtrack:

Papa Was a Rolling Stone

Scary, reasonably good movie

I'm not too fond of these supernatural thrillers, but I must say Gothika did the job and scared the hell out of me. Mathieu 'Amelie' Kassovitz did a better job than most of the other directors trying to make that 'new Ring'.

Miranda (Berry) works in a clinic as a psychiatrist, only to wake up one day as... a patient. It turns out she killed her husband (and boss... hmm) quite gruesomely. Miranda tries to find out what happened while she is haunted by some spirit.

A couple of plot holes and a silly ending don't make it a particularly good movie, but I had my frights and fun. Better than most comparable movies.

6/10.