Is The Skeleton Key actually good?

The Skeleton Key sits in the 53.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 53.7% of them.

How does The Skeleton Key compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Skeleton Key lands in the 59.2% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Skeleton Key's score based on?

359 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Skeleton Key's score.

2005

global pct

53.7

Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s

The Skeleton Key

Name: The Skeleton Key
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Released: 2005

Scored from 359 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

53.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

59.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

63.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

359 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young hospice nurse takes a job caring for a stroke-stricken man in a remote Louisiana plantation house, where his wary wife hands her a skeleton key that opens every door but one. As she explores the house's locked attic and the region's hoodoo folklore, she becomes convinced something sinister is at work and that belief itself may be the most dangerous force of all.

The Skeleton Key (2005) is a film IMDb files under the drama, horror and mystery genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 359 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 365 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.

Is The Skeleton Key (2005) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 359
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

What else scores like The Skeleton Key?

Film · 2003 · n=1,343