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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 11778
Released: March 23, 2004 |
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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.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Music Video:Fred Durst music video - "Behind Blue Eyes"
Theatrical Trailer:Fred Durst music video - "Behind Blue Eyes"
Description of Gothika (Widescreen Edition) (Snap Case):
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 (Widescreen Edition) (Snap Case) Reviews:
Gothika (Widescreen Edition) (2003)-Not Alone! 
2009-08-06 - Gothika (2003) was an interesting film that I rate at three to four stars. I remember first hearing about this movie when it was being advertised on billboards in Manhattan. These made a visual impression on me causing me to make a mental note to see this film. By the time I followed up the film must have left theaters making me think it was not well received. I subsequently saw the DVD and thought it was an interesting film making several well taken points along its fanciful way concerning the advantage that can be taken of the loss of credibility of mental patients as witnesses to a true crime.
The tale was a ghost story, but never entirely clear about what was real and what was imagined since we watched it through the eyes of a person believed to be criminally insane. Visually, I felt it had good atmosphere, was well filmed, nicely acted out, and rapidly paced leaving no time for looking back. The sets for the insane asylum were also very effective, convincing and frightening. There were enough blinking lights filmed to throw many people into a seizure (and give me a headache) which also probably added to the audiences feeling of being on edge. I think this was a good horror story and you may look at the reviews of others if you want to know what the story was about in any detail. By the way, the color and lighting was monochromatic blue for most scenes in the asylum, just like the billboard and DVD jacket.
GREAT DVD! 
2009-05-17 - This "used" movie looks and works like a brand new one! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! shipping was great as well!
Disc Freezes & 2 Movies!?!? 
2009-03-19 - It got here in plenty of time, but by the time I watched it, I was sad knowing it was too late to return it. The disc froze the end of one chapter into the beginning of the next at a real integral part of the movie! I also wasn't expecting two movies in one when I got Queen of the Damned on the flip side, but hey I'll never complain about a free movie...
Horrible 
2008-11-21 - The story has a great concept i'll admit but the acting and such are just bad. why amazon recommended this to me i don't know.
Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up even afterward
2008-11-06 - "Gothika" doesn't seem to be a fitting title for this film, but the story truly is gothic. After a car crash, Dr. Miranda Grey (Berry) awakens a prisoner in the forensic mental hospital where she formerly worked. She's accused of killing her husband and boss (Dutton), but cannot recall.
This is a very atmospheric and tense thriller. One of Berry's best performances to date and haunting to say the least. Strongly recommend you do not watch this on a dark and stormy night.
Rebecca Kyle, November 2008
