Gothika is a 2003 supernatural horror film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and written by Sebastian Gutierrez. Halle Berry plays a psychiatrist in a womens mental hospital who wakes up one day to find herself on the other side of the bars, accused of having murdered her husband.
Psychiatrist Dr. Miranda Grey Halle Berry works at a mental hospital and has a car accident after trying to avoid a girl Kathleen Mackey on a road during a stormy night while driving back home. She rushes to try to help the girl. The girl turns out to be a ghost and possesses Mirandas body by burning her after she extends her hand to the girl. Miranda loses consciousness. Miranda next wakes up in the very hospital she works for, but as a patient treated by her coworker, Dr. Pete Graham Robert Downey, Jr.. Drugged and confused, she remembers nothing of what happened after the car accident. To her horror, she learns that her husband Douglas Charles S. Dutton was brutally murdered and that she is the primary suspect. While Miranda copes with her new life in the hospital, the ghost uses her body to carry out messages most noticeably, she carves the words Not Alone into Mirandas arm, which leads her former colleagues to believe Miranda is suicidal and is inflicting the wounds on herself.Meanwhile, Miranda bonds with fellow inmate and former patient, Chloe Sava Penlope Cruz. Several times in sessions, Chloe had claimed that shed been raped while in the hospital, but Miranda had always attributed these stories to mental illness. One night, the door to Mirandas room in the hospital is opened by the ghost that has been haunting her. When she passes Chloes room in the hospital, she can hear the rape occurring and momentarily sees a mans chest pressed against the window. The mans chest bears a tattoo of an Anima Sola. Miranda realizes that Chloe was not making up these stories and, when she sees Chloe the next day, she apologizes and the two embrace. Chloe warns Miranda that her attacker said he was going to target Miranda next. Miranda begins regaining some of her memories bit by bit and slowly comes to remember herself killing her husband. She realizes that the ghost had used her body to murder Douglas, thus making Miranda the patsy for his murder. This is why all of the ph
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