In my Thursday 13 blog post titled Movie Lists Fun (Childhood Favorites, Comfort Movies, All-Time Favs), I shared lists of movies, including my all-time favorite movies. Next to several of those movie titles there had been an asterisk, indicating that those films had inspired/influenced me as a writer. 

The Movies:

Pitch Black 

UltraViolet

Matrix: Reloaded

Van Helsing

Gothika

The FINAL movie spotlight is for...

Gothika

How did it inspire me?

Every single moment Miranda (Halle Berry) is locked up in the psychiatric hospital.

I don't think it's trailer quite does it justice.


I watched this movie so many times while writing Part Two in Book 2 of my Secret Book Baby Series, which takes place in a psychiatric hospital for women and girls. The writing is darker because of the setting and what happens. The dark, grim, spooky mood of Gothika helped to inspire me.

In one scene of Gothika, Halle's character has a possessed moment. Well, my character experiences something kind of similar...but not. LOL

I'm not sure what else to say about this movie except that I simply love it.