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8. Caroline Gets Trapped In Violet's Body - The Skeleton Key
The Skeleton Key isn't really up to much at all for the bulk of its runtime - a dead ordinary supernatural horror flick that largely just blends in alongside its genre brethen.
That is, until that ending.
The film follows hospice nurse Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson), who takes a job at an isolated plantation house in Louisiana to help Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands) care for her ailing husband Benjamin (John Hurt).
Plenty of low-energy spooky shenanigans ensue, with the audience being led to believe that Violet is plotting to sacrifice Ben and Caroline to grant herself eternal life. Not quite, though.
It turns out that Violet and Ben are actually former slaves who have been using a ritual to swap bodies with younger folk they invite into their home.
The reason for Ben's condition is that Violet recently body-swapped him with the family's young lawyer, Luke (Peter Sarsgaard), who is naturally terrified at having been swapped into an elderly man's body.
In the end, Violet also swaps her own body with Caroline and feeds her a potion inducing stroke-like paralysis, leaving her unable to fight back or alert anyone to what's happened.
EMS then shows up to take Caroline (who is in Violet's body) and Luke (in Ben's body) away, while Violet and Ben (now in the bodies of Caroline and Luke) pretend that they inherited the house from them, allowing them to keep living there.
It's one hell of a savage ending in a movie that would otherwise be so damn forgettable.