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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 57219
Released: October 12, 2004 |
| Our Price: $3.83 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A brilliant and respected criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is an expert at knowing what is rational. Under the direction of her husband (Charles S. Dutton) Miranda treats dangerously disturbed patients at the Woodward Penitentiary for Women. But Miranda's life is thrust into terrifying jeopardy after a cryptic encounter with a mysterious young girl leads to a nightmare beyond her wildest imagination.Running Time: 98 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR UPC: 085393963026
Description of Gothika (Two-Disc Special Edition):
The title of Gothika prepares you for a spooky, atmospheric thriller with an emphasis on supernatural mystery. The best way to appreciate the movie itself is to understand that it's a waking nightmare that needn't make sense in the realm of sanity. Making a flashy Hollywood debut after his superior 2000 thriller Crimson Rivers, French actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz pours on the dark and stormy atmosphere, trapping a competent psychologist (Halle Berry) in the prison ward where she treated inmates (including Penelope Cruz) until she was committed for killing her husband (Charles S. Dutton), who was also her boss. Did a car crash cause her to suffer ghostly delusions, or is a young girl--dead for four years--sending clues from beyond the grave? Berry has to prove her innocence while Kassovitz keeps everything--including the viewer and costar Robert Downey Jr. (as Berry's colleague)--in the dark about just where the nonsensical plot is leading. There's a better movie in here somewhere, among the catwalks and crannies of the impressive prison-castle setting, and Berry gives 100% in a performance that's consistent with the movie's overwrought tone. Attentive viewers will identify the killer early on, and the ending is anticlimactic, but Gothika serves up a few good shocks for ghost-story connoisseurs. --Jeff Shannon
Gothika (Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
Nonsense. Neither scary nor suspenseful. 
2008-02-16 - The plot is nonsense. The movie is nether scary nor suspenseful.
It's a waste of time and money.
DISC PROBLEM 
2008-02-11 - The purchase was smooth. However this is the second HD movie of the same title that has had playback problems. The movie pauses at certain sections of the movie. Amazon sent me a new one to replace the first one and the NEW one did the exact same thing. I even called Toshiba and they said that there is nothing wrong with my player...it has to be a software problem with that particular movie. So if anyone has this movie on HD beware!
Halle Berry is Great in this Movie 
2008-02-07 - This movie is so good!!! I don't see how this one bombed at the box office. This movie was so different from your average scary movie movie. It is something we have not seen. It is like a horror/thriller. The acting was great, the movie could have been presented a little bit differently. Other than that it was $10.00 well spent.
Surprisingly very good--and scary!
2008-02-02 - Don't watch this movie at night, and when you are alone! I did and I almost turned it off. Almost, but it was so good, entertaining, & suspenseful I kept it on. Halle Berry is also surprisingly very good in this. Her acting isn't fakey or like she knows a camera is on her. I very much reccomend this movie if you are looking for a suspenseful spook.
Good catalog title for Hd dvd 
2008-01-25 - Overall an enjoyable scifi/ horror thriller, looks and sounds great on HD DVD, this isnt the movie to end all but if your into this kind of movie it will be a fun experience for you! happy Hd
