Miranda Grey(Halle Berry) is a psychiatrist who is known to have a great mind and a way to get through her patients, finds herself waking up on the wrong side. Now Miranda is locked up and accused of killing her husband which she has no memory of doing. Strange things start occurring to Miranda in the institution, a ghost of a young woman who she has faint memories of, starts haunting her and she keeps having flashbacks of what really happened. Miranda can't put the pieces together and she realizes something that her patients have always been trying to tell her before: You can't trust somebody when they think your crazy. I was really looking forward to this movie, it had a thrilling storyline, great trailer and talented actors. So it's bound to be a good horror flick, right? I couldn't have been more wrong. It had a promising beginning but soon I noticed that it was just going to be a rip-off of all the other bad horror movies that came out earlier this year. It was really predictable and also the pathetic attempts to scare the audience were just plain hilarious. Nothing about this movie was original and when I found out the big "conclusion" to this whole rubbish, I couldn't help but burst into laughter. Not to mention that embarrassing ending and that pointless song that had nothing to do with the movie. Also one more thing that was irritating was the overuse of the lines "Not Alone" and "How can you trust someone when they think your crazy?" And one more thing, what's up with that title anyways? This movie had absolutely nothing to do with anything Gothic. Movies such as Sleepy Hollow and Edward Scissorhands have a Gothic atmosphere but not this crap. But congratulations to Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz who plays another disturbed patient for delivering such great performances in such a bad movie, and props to that one and only scary shower scene. I would give Gothika 2/10.
Review of Gothika
