Robert Downey Jr’s 98-Minute Cult Classic Psychological Thriller Is Officially Coming to Netflix
Robert Downey Jr.’s 2003 psychological thriller Gothika is coming to Netflix. The film stars Halle Berry as a prison psychiatrist who mysteriously wakes up imprisoned in one of her own observation cells as an inmate. Before his career renaissance as Iron Man in 2008, Downey Jr. was known for taking on quirky, eccentric character roles in films like Two Girls and a Guy, Weird Science, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and Chaplin. In Gothika, he is part of a cast that delivers deliberately unhinged performances, with every character appearing at least somewhat unstable regardless of which side of the prison bars they occupy. The film has developed a cult following over the decades and is now becoming more accessible through its Netflix release, allowing new audiences and fans of Downey Jr.’s pre-MCU work to experience this psychological thriller.