A gloomy-doomy ghost story that gets off to a creepy start and then spirals into flat-out preposterousness, French actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz's English-language debut features Halle Berry in the kind of bravura role for which actresses claw out each other's eyes. As brilliant criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey, she starts out on top of the world: She's beautiful, highly respected and happily married to her boss, Dr. Douglas Grey (Charles S. Dutton). One dark-and-stormy-night fender bender later, she's a patient at her former place of employment, the spooky Woodward Penitentiary for Women. When she asks for her husband, she is told that he's dead, then accus...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins