11 Interesting Facts About The Skeleton Key

Name: The Skeleton Key
Released: 2005

Interesting Facts (10)

#001
The swamp behind the Devereaux house is CGI. The real house, Felicity Plantation, stands inland in St. James Parish surrounded by farmland, while the fictional Devereaux house is in Terrebonne Parish, which is coastal and marshy.
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#002
Sir John Hurt offered to do Ben's fall from the roof himself but wasn't allowed to, since the stunt was judged too risky to guarantee he wouldn't be hurt.
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#003
Early on, Violet is displeased that Caroline doesn't have a New Orleans accent: it tells her Caroline comes from far away and is unlikely to believe in local superstitions, and she later says they only work if you believe in them.
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#004
The wind chime of bones hanging at the entrance to the gas station Caroline visits is made from raccoon penis bones.
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#005
Filming was set for 2003, but Kate Hudson got pregnant, which didn't suit her character, so production was pushed back to the following spring (2004).
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#006
In the opening, the book Caroline (Kate Hudson) reads to a patient at the nursing home is Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island." Early in that story, Jim Hawkins looks after old Billy Bones after a stroke, just as Caroline is about to begin her own ordeal caring for the elderly Ben Devereaux after his stroke.
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#007
Ronald McCall had to cut off his dreadlocks to play Papa Justify.
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#008
The film wasn't a box office hit, but it has since been reappraised as a well-crafted horror movie.
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#009
You can't row a boat overnight from anywhere in Terrebonne Parish to New Orleans, but you could row to a nearby farm, as Caroline does, and then go on by pickup truck.
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#010
There's no place called Bayou Chapelet in Terrebonne Parish.
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#011
In the garden scene, Violet (Gena Rowlands) sends Caroline (Kate Hudson) for trillium seeds, an odd choice for a flower garden: trillium blooms only once every seven to ten years and, as a perennial, never needs reseeding unless the plants are dug up or destroyed. When Caroline brings the packets, Violet calls them "Dixie-Johns," the Hoodoo name for trillium root, foreshadowing her powers and hinting that she gathers roots for her rituals.
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