A woman becomes possessed by an evil spirit after she saves the life of her terminally ill daughter.
Skeletons In The Closet is directed by Asif Akbar a director who's directed a lot of low budget movies such as Astro (2018), Clown Motel (2023), The Commando (2022) and a few others.
Skeletons In The Closet is one of those movies where you look at the cast, watch the movie and then wonder how did this happen? The fact this movie has Terrance Howard, Udo Kier and Cuba Gooding Jr. and it's this terrible should really say something. This is like if Hallmark attempted to branch into the horror genre this is exactly what you would get. A movie that feels like it's 2 hours long with horrendous special effects and makeup that make even the lowest budget horror movie on Tubi look like James Cameron's Avatar (2009).
As far as the plot goes this is a huge disaster, so many different plot points are being attempted to be explored with none of them sticking. There's one about loss of income due to losing a job, a child with cancer, religious trauma, suicide and so much more. There's not a single time in this movie where it seems like the movie knows what it's talking about, it really does seem like the writers (one of which being Terrance Howard by the way) had absolutely no idea what to do with this movie so they grabbed as many topics as possible, threw in some garbage special effects and called it a day.
Not even the performances could save this movie, they are all incredibly wooden which is mainly due to the very poor writing not giving anyone on set to work with. Granted there are a couple hilariously bad moments but those are not enough to warrant this movie a watch.
Skeletons In The Closet is a very confused mess that is by far one of the worst movies so far this year and quite honestly might be one of Shudder's worst original movies.
Skeltons In The Closet is available on Shudder.
Disgrace To Cinema F
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