Miranda Gray is a brilliant psychiatrist at Woodward Penitentiary Hospital for women. The doctor treats people with mental illness and sometimes dangerous individuals. One evening, finishing work and driving home in the pouring rain, Miranda sees a little girl in the middle of the road. To avoid her, she is forced to swerve sharply, crashing into a tree.When the doctor got out of the car and approached the apparently motionless child to make sure nothing serious had happened to her and cover her from the water, it began to catch fire and the psychiatrist lost consciousness.
Three days later, when Miranda wakes up, she finds herself admitted to her own hospital, accused of having killed her husband, who was also the clinic director. The woman, terribly shocked by this, nevertheless remembers nothing.
Thanks to the help of one of her patients whom up to that point she had considered insane, Chloe, and a doctor friend of hers at the hospital, Pete Graham discovers the stark truth.
The 2003 U.S.-produced film, directed by Mathieu Kassoviz (who was chosen by Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis after enjoying Rivers of Purple), is a rather mediocre film. There are good sequences, accompanied well by the soundtrack, that manage to develop some tension and give a sufficient claustrophobic sense for the film's 95-minute running time. However, Gothika, written by Spaniard Sebastian Guttierrez, with set design by Graham Grace Walker and filming by Matthew Libatique, is nothing original. It is reminiscent of other films, for example The Ring, and thus gives that "already seen" feeling.
The biggest problem with this film is precisely the ending, which was meant to surprise viewers but only succeeded in discrediting the film.
Definitely negligible.
The biggest problem with this film is precisely the ending, which was meant to surprise viewers but only succeeded in discrediting the film.
Definitely negligible.
Review by Vampira
