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The Skeleton Key

The synopsis: Low on cash, Caroline (Kate Hudson) accepts a job as a caregiver for an elderly man living on a historic Louisiana plantation with his wife. The land is apparently haunted by the ghosts of two former servants, who were hanged in the '20s after they were caught practicing "hoodoo" with the plantation owner's young children.

The twist: Not only have the vengeful spirits of the servants been in the bodies of the elderly couple all along, but they manipulate their way into the bodies of Caroline and the family's young estate lawyer (Peter Sarsgaard). Caroline and the lawyer's spirits now trapped in the bodies of the old man and wife, and to add insult to injury, they're also mute and unable to move since the servants gave them a liquid that causes pseudo-strokes, rendering their bodies useless. Worst bosses ever?

The amount of damage it'll do to your psyche: 🔪🔪🔪

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