Gothika (2003)

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Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) appears content with her job at the local mental institution helping a seemingly delusional girl, Chloe (Penelope Cruz), who thinks Satan visits her in her cell nightly. Miranda has a friend at work that shares quips and sandwiches with her on occasion, Dr. Peter Graham (Robert Downey Jr.). And to put the icing on the cake Dr. Grey gets to work along side her husband Dr. Douglas Grey (Charles S. Dutton). It's the perfect job, the perfect hubby, and a great friend all rolled up in one cozy looney bin...but, Chloe's case is troubling Miranda. After discussing the case with the long time colleague and head of the institution Dr. Phil Parsons (Bernard Hill), Miranda realizes she may need to step back and not take the case so personally...and that's when the so called "delusional" shit hits the fan.

On Miranda's rainy drive home she finds a beaten girl in the middle of road who she of coarse tries to help, but to Dr. Grey's dismay when she touches the girl she is engulfed in a sort of Satanic Soul Fire. Miranda wakes to find she's in the very same institution she left the night before, but now she's a patient. Turns out Miranda is being charged with the murder ...

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