{"id":568,"date":"2005-11-30T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2012-12-31T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T01:34:48","slug":"568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Hoodoo and the Lost City"},"content":{"rendered":"

M. and I watched The Skeleton Key<\/em><\/a>, a middling thriller starring Kate Hudson<\/a>. It’s the usual “Don’t go up those stairs! Don’t open that door!” sort of plot, but what gives it its twist–more than the conjured Hoodoo<\/a> atmosphere that the movie<\/a> tries to evoke and the echoes of Mia Farrow<\/a> in Rosemary’s Baby<\/em><\/a>–is the thought that it must have been the last movie partly filmed in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n

It’s like looking at pre-war Berlin or something. We will not see those street scenes again.<\/p>\n

Cat Yronwode<\/a>, owner of Lucky Mojo<\/a>, was the hoodoo consultant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M. and I watched The Skeleton Key, a middling thriller starring Kate Hudson. It’s the usual “Don’t go up those stairs! Don’t open that door!” sort of plot, but what gives it its twist–more than the conjured Hoodoo atmosphere that the movie tries to evoke and the echoes of Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby–is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[192,9],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-orleans","tag-voudoun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-568","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2853,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2853","url_meta":{"origin":568,"position":0},"title":"Hoodoo You Read?","author":"Chas S. 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