5 For: The Skeleton Key (2005) – Body Swaps, Hypnosis, and Haunted Minds

What happens when the Machine pulls five films bound by voodoo, hypnosis, and the horror of losing yourself?

In this “5 For” episode, Landen and Truman unlock the eerie lineage that connects The Skeleton Key to haunted consciousness and body-swapping mayhem.

 

WHAT YOU’LL HEAR

• How I Walked with a Zombie (1943) shaped modern horror, colonial guilt, and the invention of the jump scare

• The Others (2001) as gothic melancholy and family tragedy in disguise

• Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) reimagining Skeleton Key’s body-swap horror through race and psychology

• Stir of Echoes (1999) and the subgenre of “investigative horror” that blends hypnosis and detective dread

• Bride of Chucky (1998) — from childhood nightmares to camp resurrection, proving even killer dolls deserve love

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Tags: The Skeleton Key, Body Swap Horror, Psychological Horror, Voodoo, Hypnosis, 2000s Horror