Keyhole (film)

Keyhole is a 2012 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin, starring Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier and Kevin McDonald. A surreal combination of gangster film and haunted house film, which draws on Homers Odyssey as well, Keyhole tells the story of a Ulysses Pick Patric, who returns to his home and embarks on an odyssey through the house, one room at a time. Filming began in Winnipeg on July 6, 2010. Maddin shot Keyhole digitally rather than his usual method of shooting on 16mm or Super8mm.

Ulysses himself arrives, carrying a drowned young woman named Denny. After entering the house, Denny is able to stand under her own strength, and seems alive although injured and blind. She reveals that she can hear the thoughts of Ulysses as he wanders through the house, examining the objects that he had previously left behind. Calypso reveals that Hyacinth remains in Ulyssess former bedroom at the top of the house, where she has chained him her fathers ghost. Ulysses and Denny join the gang, who are confused about their plan and dont understand why the police havent shot their way into the house. Ulysses deflects questions about the plan and claims that the police wont enter the house while the storm is still in force. Big Ed, annoyed at being kept in the dark, criticizes Ulysses for adopting Heatly after he killed one of Ulyssess sons, and is thrashed.Calypso reveals that although he is chained to Hyacinths bed, his chains stretch to unknown lengths, and torments Ed further through supernatural flogging. Ulysses collects the gangs guns and throws them into the ducts to be destroyed in the houses furnace. The gangster Ogilbe Kevin McDonald thinks he hears a noise and goes to investigate, exiting with a Screamesque Ill be right back. He is immediately killed when he tries to have sex with one of the ghosts even though Ulysses just warned him not to bother the ghosts upon contact with a washerwoman ghost, hes electrocutedhis ghost shortly completes the sex act. The bullets from the guns that had been thrown into the furnace begin to fire throughout the house the laughing face of Calypso suggests that this is somehow the ghosts doing and a stray bullet kills Heatly. As he dies, Ulysses reveals that he had at first adopted Heatly to torture him and himself as revenge for the death of his son but grew to love Heatly more than any of his sons. Ulysses is unaware, as he says this, that the hostage who watcheshears is his only living son, Manners, having forgotten and fa

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