Gothika
Mathieu Kassovitz’s Gothika is only a ghost story if you really want it to be, but it works perfectly well as a straight-on thriller about a psychiatrist who, after she’s accused of murder, finds herself committed at the same institution she once worked. Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) puts all the faith in the world into both science and her own medical expertise, but nothing about her apparent psychotic break makes much sense even though those closest to her almost immediately believe that she might actually be a killer.
As Miranda resigns herself to her new tortured existence in the psych ward, she learns first-hand what sort of inhumane abuse those under her care experienced at the hands of other employees of the facility. What truly disturbs Miranda as she searches for a way to clear her name, though, is the very real possibility that whatever force is guiding her to the truth about a string of murders might actually be reaching out to her from beyond the grave.
