“Some doors were never meant to be opened… again.”

The bayous remember. The shadows whisper. And the doors that once protected us… have started to open again.

In The Skeleton Key 4: The Ritual Door, the veil between worlds begins to thin once more in the decaying heart of New Orleans, where superstition has always walked hand-in-hand with reality. Decades after the horrors unleashed at the Terrebonne plantation, the echoes of that night still linger — not in newspapers or stories, but in sigils scorched onto the skin of the dead, carved near doorways that no one built, behind walls that never stood.

🕯️ Jason Statham stars as Detective Ray Mercer, a brooding ex-cop whose career collapsed after an unsolved case broke his faith in the world — and in himself. Now working as a paranormal investigator, Mercer is pulled back into a nightmare when his estranged sister is found dead in the swamps, her body twisted in ritual, and her hands clutched around an old iron key that doesn’t belong anywhere… yet fits everywhere.

🔮 His only lead: Malik Duvall (portrayed by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) — once a celebrated anthropologist, now a reclusive madman haunted by what he’s seen and what he still believes. Living in the overgrown ruins of Terrebonne, Malik guards the last known fragment of an ancient hoodoo incantation — one said to close the gates between this world and the next. Or open them wide for what waits beyond.

🌘 As Mercer and Duvall form a tenuous alliance, they descend deep into the swamplands, through cryptic churches, forgotten family tombs, and into a ritualistic underworld governed by the Echoed Ones — spirits of the dead who never moved on, who feed on belief and trauma, and who speak through dreams and locked doors. Doors that should not exist, yet are appearing all across the region.

⏳ But time is running out. The rituals have begun again, and with each death, each opened door, the boundary between the living and the damned grows thinner. Mercer must face not only the evil beyond the veil, but the grief and guilt within his own soul — because in hoodoo, belief is power. And belief cuts both ways.

🕷️ The Skeleton Key 4: The Ritual Door is a Southern Gothic descent into swamp-soaked mysticism, ancestral secrets, and haunting metaphysical horror. Stylish, suspenseful, and drenched in the atmosphere of rotting wood, flickering candlelight, and whispered incantations, it’s a terrifying meditation on the legacy we inherit… and the doors we leave unlocked behind us.