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Gothika (2003)

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Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 162
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 138

Berry's acting talents can't save Gothika from its preposterous plot and bad dialogue.

6

Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 32

Berry's acting talents can't save Gothika from its preposterous plot and bad dialogue.

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 375,015

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Movie Info

A woman is taken on a voyage to the other side of sanity in this moody thriller. Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is a clinical psychologist who works alongside her husband, Dr. Doug Grey (Charles S. Dutton), in the mental ward of a top security prison, where Miranda has been devoting much of her attention to a clever but deeply disturbed murderer named Chloe (Penélope Cruz), who shares gruesome tales of torture and violence that may or may not be based in fact. One night, Miranda has a hideous

R, 1 hr. 38 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Horror

,

Sebastian Gutierrez

Mar 23, 2004

$59.5M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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All Critics (170) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (141) | DVD (37)

A mystery wrapped in an enigma -- an enigma that isn't nearly as clever as the screenwriter seems to think it is.

November 26, 2003 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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More of a women's-prison movie than a supernatural thriller, and not a very good one at that.

November 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Scriptwriter Sebastian Gutierrez and French director Mathieu (Hate) Kassovitz ... treat this movie with all the subtlety of a Judas Priest music video.

November 21, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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Propelled by too many whoppers to create a believable, and therefore legitimately terrifying, universe.

November 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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It's a film about the mind that is totally bone-headed, frequently making serious lapses of logic.

November 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Constantly bouncing from derivative to ridiculous and back to derivative again, Gothika will be tolerable for undiscriminating horror fans but should be shunned by everybody else.

November 21, 2003 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Grisly, disturbing, extremely violent horror film.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

This shoddy B horror movie doesn't deserve a national theatrical run, much less the capable talent assigned to it.

May 14, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Gothika takes a credible idea and makes it preposterous. (HD DVD Edition)

October 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Succeeds in making every plot twist more unbelievable and irrational than the last.

May 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

An ceaseless stream of Fake Scares, Dream Sequences, and Shrieking Halles.

November 28, 2004 Full Review Source: Monsters At Play | Comment
Monsters At Play

Berry's grating screams might send you to looney land too.

October 23, 2004 Comment

Gothika est donc un autre film d'horreur qui semble sortir tout droit d'un programme créant des scénarios. Heureusement que l'on peut en rire.

October 12, 2004 Comment

Penelope, thanks for the memories: "He came back again last night and tore me like paper. He opened me like a flower of pain, and it felt good."

October 10, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Gothika

"Gothika" is a well-made ghost story. It doesn't advance the horror art form in any way. But as a traditional ghost story, it's quite effective. I am completely mystified by the critical drubbing it received when it came out. My only explanation is that Halle Berry seems to have been the victim of a backlash from both

September 5, 2011
Bill D 2007
William Dunmyer

Super Reviewer

A film that isn't highly rated by most, but remains to be one of my favourites and most re-watched films that I own, possibly because it ticks a lot of boxes for me, such as the question of sanity, the setting of a psychiatric hospital, a supernatural element, along with a murder mystery. Gothika has the dark creepy

July 27, 2006
76Majikat

Super Reviewer

    1. Chloe Sava: He said you're next.
    – Submitted by Lisa M (1 day ago)
    1. Chloe Sava: I cut his Adam's apple in half... like a piece of fruit on a summer day.
    – Submitted by Tianna G (2 months ago)
    1. Dr. Miranda Grey: Do you think I'm crazy?
    – Submitted by Nick P (6 months ago)

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