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	Gothika Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Gothika is so bad that it should have been released in the dead zone of September, or at the very least, Halloween, the only time it would have stood a fighting chance at the box office.
		Gothika fits in quite well with DC's repertoire of big-budget B-horror fare—award-winning cast members (it was Geoffrey Rush in House on Haunted Hill and Gabriel Byrne in Ghost Ship) and cliché-ridden stories add up to lukewarm genre films that lack originality and fresh ideas.
		Gothika is far from even coming close to being called a good film, but it won't hurt to check it out if you're looking for some mindless entertainment (or you just don't care what you watch).
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=137715 (1610 words)

	Gothika
		Gothika is the latest from Dark Castle Entertainment, specializing in horror movies with updated special effects, including House on Haunted Hill and Thir13en Ghosts, two of my favorites.
		Gothika is one of those movies that is defined primarily by its lensing; everything is a bluish gray.
		Gothika is no Sixth Sense or Stir of Echoes, and a little too slickly produced for its own good.
	members.toast.net /talien/tmb/movietv/gothika.html (708 words)

	DVD Review: Gothika (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to the filmmakers, "Gothika" is a nonsense word that doesn’t mean anything at all.
		And so the movie goes, as Miranda tries to figure out why she’s a prisoner in the hospital that she works at, all the while trying to figure out just what the hell the ghosts are doing scaring people.
		Gothika has some legitimate scares, and it is moderately interesting in simplistic way.
	www.lightsoutfilms.com /dvd_gothika.html (493 words)

	Gothika (2003)
		Gothika evolves poorly and presents a weak ghost story that never threatens to turn into anything involving or engaging.
		Gothika appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Gothika presented such a limited palette that it barely qualified as a color film.
	www.dvdmg.com /gothika.shtml (1336 words)

	Gothika Movie review
		"Gothika" is likely to pull them in, too, with Halle Berry in the leading role (for the first time).
		Berry is very good in the part, but she's shown herself to be such a good actress elsewhere it's a little puzzling to find her in such a routine, ordinary movie.
		"Gothika" isn't really a terrible movie, but the script by Sebastian Gutierrez is all flash and filigree, going after shock effects instead of clearly explaining what's going on.
	www.audiorevolution.com /movies/gothika (1000 words)

	DVD Review: Gothika
		"Gothika"'s script, by Sebastian Gutierrez (the recent adaptation of Elmore Leonard's "Big Bounce"), comes up with a great creepy idea and keeps us in the dark about where things are headed.
		Although films of the genre are certainly far-fetched, almost as a rule, "Gothika" leaves a lot of questions to be asked.
		While the film's soundtrack is not remarkably aggressive, there are moments throughout the picture where the surrounds are used to great effect to heighten the tension with discrete, creepy sound effects such as lights flickering.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews5/gothikadvd.html (1004 words)

	Metaphilm - Gothika
		It’s not out of the question, for as Gothika suggests, it is well within the potential of science to follow in lockstep in the steps of its religious predecessor.
		Gothika, in its attempt to warn us, takes on the narrative form of historical precedent to show us what can go wrong with science—particularly its distinctive denomination of psychiatry.
		Gothika’s main reminder—despite the implicit questions raised about the scientific worldview’s ability to account for all the evidence (the revenge of the ghosts)—is of the potential for such abuse in any system that tries to explain life, the universe, and everything.
	metaphilm.com /philm.php?id=359_0_2_0 (2791 words)

	Africana Reviews: Gothika
		Right now the question filling the heads of Gothika's dumbfounded viewers is, "Why Berry would do such a bizarre film?" It's an understandable concern that should ultimately find interest in the crazy twists and conscious manipulations of the script written by Sebastian Gutierrez and directed by Matthieu Kasovitz.
		Gothika is her first serious lead role after winning the Oscar for Monster's Ball and it capitalizes on her fascinating status as a contemporary Hollywood star with a particular celebrity profile.
		Gothika trenchantly depicts a career woman's exposed neuroses (its closing-credits theme song confesses "No one knows what it's like/ My dreams aren't empty /As my conscience seems to be").
	archive.blackvoices.com /reviews/moviestv/mtv20031121gothika.asp (1154 words)

	Gothika movie info - dvds
		For the diehard horror buffs, "Gothika" may not be enough, but for the general moviegoers looking for a fun time, it should deliver on the goods.
		However, for all its glossy sheen and pedigreed cast, Gothika can’t quite recover from the fact that the scares it provides are of the grab-your-boyfriend’s-arm-and-then-laugh variety, as opposed to the quieter, psychological sort of horror it thinks it is providing; this isn’t The Sixth Sense, no matter how gloomy everybody acts.
		The truth is, Gothika isn't all that much different from House On Hanted Hill to begin with -- a slick, glossy horror film with a very strong opening, a satisfactory middle, and a disappointing end.
	www.mooviees.com /2004-gothika/movie (1361 words)

	IMDb user comments for Gothika (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gothika is easily the best of the lot, and also the darkest.
		The plot is about a psychologist in a women's prison who wakes up one day to find herself on the other side of the bars, accused of having murdered her husband.
		Gothika, on the other hand, fails on so many levels it is difficult to describe.
	mymovies.imdb.com /title/tt0348836/usercomments (2294 words)

	Gothika (2003): Reviews
		Gothika was supposed to provide proof that she (Berry) could carry a film as a leading lady, but it doesn't.
		Gothika deserves credit for embracing the ghost story genre so whole-heartedly, but as any ten-year-old girl can tell you, there's nothing original here to see.
		In my opinion Gothika was an extremely intense movie, and this made it very enjoyable the plot kept strong the whole way through and a massive twist at the end top of an almost perfect movie.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/gothika (1503 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Gothika
		Gothika is dripping with despair, with cold oozing from every nook and cranny.
		I could not detect any errors during the presentation, which is very impressive considering the unusual background textures, copious amounts of rain, and abundant use of the color fl.
		Gothika is hereby found guilty of taking an interesting story and letting it fall into unoriginal territory.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/gothika.php (1472 words)

	Movie Review: Gothika
		The movie tried to creep you out with music, lighting, and that special effect of the girl walking across the floor in a ticking slow-motion, but all it gives you are overused horror predictabilities such as flickering lights, dark rooms, nightmarish flashbacks, and of course, a ghost.
		I wonder if Gothika was intended as a comedy and not a horror movie because I laughed at how witless the production was.
		Really, this is shameful because for the first hour of the film, it set up a snug and fascinating foundation, but after the 61st minute, it all began to unravel into a dim farce.
	www.attrition.org /movies/gothika.html (736 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Gothika [2004]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The title of Gothika prepares you for a spooky, atmospheric thriller with an emphasis on supernatural mystery.
		While Gothika has all the potential to be a great horror, thriller and a cult movie all in one, it fails terribly.
		Gothika is just saved from being a lone-star movie by the promising beginning, decent soundtrack and Penelope Cruz's excellent depiction of a troubled mind.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002849HK (1077 words)

	Gothika
		Gothika is a tad different in that instead of being a blockbuster and/or franchise with a built-in audience, it is a garden-variety horror movie, and not even a great one at that.
		Gothika is a silly film that doesn't care that it doesn't make much sense, and goes about clumsily having Grey attempt to figure out the mysteries.
		Berry is capable of so much more, and it is perplexing why she would even pick this role.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/gothika.html (604 words)

	Gothika movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
		Gothika will be released on Region 1 DVD in the US on the 30th March 2004.
		Gothika has been written by Sebastian Gutierrez and will tell the tale of a Psychiatrist (to be played by Berry) who wakes up as a patient in the asylum where she works and finds she has been charged with murder.
		Gothika would centre on a female physciatrist who wakes up and finds she is a patient in the nuthouse she works at.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/g/gothika.shtm (1324 words)

	Review: Gothika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gothika is a train-wreck of a motion picture.
		The first 45-or-so minutes of Gothika are as effective as any scary movie I've seen in terms of atmosphere (the movie has two visual modes: dark and darker) and "boo!" moments.
		Gothika turns into a very silly murder mystery, complete with a "talking killer" (a bad guy who reveals his entire plan) and some cheesy special effects.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/g/gothika.html (754 words)

	Gothika - Movie Review
		Halle Berry stars as Dr Miranda Grey, who is a psychiatrist at the Woodward Penitentiary for the criminally insane, working alongside her older husband Douglas (Charles S. Dutton) and young admirer Dr Pete Graham (Robert Downey Jr, who knows a thing or two about the inside of prisons).
		For 'Gothika' is like a compendium of some horror fan's favourite scenes, all stitched together with little concern for any overall coherence.
		The upshot is that 'Gothika' is a collection of creepy moments, carefully manipulated moods and well-edited shocks, but its ill-fitting parts make it lumber along clumsily like the granddaddy of gothic, Frankenstein's monster.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/705 (886 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Gothika'
		In Gothika, a raging ghost is trying to make a live human an instrument of her revenge, but she keeps beating up this person and mutilating her--why?
		Gothika may not make sense, but it's rigorous in its way: the irrational world is always wet, represented by rain, the prison shower and one of those Cat People swimming pools.
		Gothika (R, 95 min.), directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, written by Sebastian Guitierrez, photographed by Matthew Libatique and starring Halle Berry and Robert Downey Jr., opens Friday at selected theaters valleywide.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.20.03/gothika-0347.html (614 words)

	Gothika movie trailers and posters at CTF - 2003 - Halle Berry
		Gothika tells the story of Dr. Miranda Grey (HALLE BERRY), a dedicated and successful criminal psychologist who awakens to find herself a patient in her own mental institution with no memory of the murder she's apparently committed.
		She soon learns that her husband was brutally murdered three days earlier, and the bloody evidence points directly at her.
		Halle Berry broke her arm while filming Gothika on the Montreal set.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /Trailers/2003/gothika_trailers.htm (302 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Gothika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I don't know if she would have defined "Gothika" as great trash, but in trash as in art there is no accounting for taste, and reader, I cherished this movie in all of its lurid glory.
		But those are all bothersome details of plausibility and logic, and those are the last two qualities you should seek in "Gothika." This is a psychothriller with the plausibility of a nightmare -- which is to say, it doesn't make sense, but it keeps your attention.
		And after the movie ends the questions don't bother you, because "Gothika" is in a genre with the specific duty of involving, scaring and absorbing us for its precise running time, after which it is over and we can go home.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/20031121/REVIEWS/304/1023 (837 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| ENTERTAINMENT > Halle Berry plays a difficult role in ‘Gothika’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Gothika, Berry plays Dr. Miranda Grey, a criminal psychologist who awakens to find herself a patient in her own institution with no memory of the murder she’s apparently committed.
		Because Berry appears in nearly every scene of the film, production went on hiatus for one month after the actress injured her wrist while shooting a scene with Downey.
		Gothika is a testament to Halle’s strength and talent,” Silver attests.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/feb/23/yehey/enter/20040223ent3.html (1131 words)

	VFXPro - The Daily Visual Effects Resource
		"Gothika," a contemporary ghost story that opens today, marks the debut of digital fire effects created by effects house CafeFX, a ComputerCafe company.
		'Gothika' director Mathieu Kassovitz wanted the fire to have a specific look and to use it in close-ups." CafeFX created an approach that provided an underlying structure that they could control and enhance with live-action elements.
		The most extensive, and dramatic, use of digital fire came in the climax where the killer is revealed.
	www.uemedia.net /CPC/vfxpro/article_5520.shtml (431 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Gothika
		Putting the gothic in "Gothika" is the sumptuous, ultra-creepy production design by Graham "Grace" Walker (2002's "Queen of the Damned"), painting the gray, gloomy, sterilized mental institution as a character in and of itself.
		One of the most intriguing ideas "Gothika" has to offer is the notion that, for all of their expertise in the psychology of the mind, the psychiatrist don't know the first thing about connecting with their patients.
		For thrills and chills that do not rely on gory slasher theatrics, "Gothika" is one of the stronger horror entries of the year.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-5/gothika.htm (710 words)

	Gothika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In "Gothika," Halle Berry plays a penitentiary criminal psychologist who awakens one morning to find herself incarcerated in her own psychiatric ward with no memory of having viciously murdered her husband.
		She gets out of the car to offer assistance, and the next thing she knows -- that is, after the girl appears to burst into flames -- she's locked up alongside the other criminally insane and charged with a murder that would appear irrefutably linked to her.
		By the time "Gothika" reaches a particularly lame denouement, it, too, has become a ghost of its promising former self.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2029797 (562 words)

	BBC - Films - Gothika
		The pitch is promising: a glamorous criminal psychologist (the star) wakes from unconsciousness to find herself imprisoned in the asylum she's employed by, accused of butchering her husband (Charles Dutton).
		However, that's where the interest ends, as Gothika descends into a witless whodunit where the biggest crime has been committed against cinema.
		As with her Oscar-winning turn in the overrated Monster's Ball, Berry does dowdy, frizzing her hair and sporting a wild-eyed stare while wondering if she's really kerazy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2004/03/30/gothika_2004_review.shtml (417 words)

	Check your disbelief and hop aboard 'Gothika' for an intense thrill ride
		It was only a matter of time before someone managed to marry America's decades-long fascination with cinematic serial killers and the recent rebirth of the ghost story.
		"Gothika" lives up to the suggestions of its otherwise abstract title: a modern Gothic thriller grounded in a tantalizing foundation of supernatural vengeance that carries the story along by sheer mystery and rewards us with righteous satisfaction.
		Mathieu Kassovitz, the director of the acclaimed French drama "La Haine" and the slick, somewhat contrived psycho-thriller "Crimson Rivers," makes the most of the Hollywood budget on his American debut.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/149179_gothika21q.html (523 words)

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