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Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship

6.0

Ghost Ship

R·2002·91m

Summary

After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.

Crew

Director

Steve Beck

Screenplay

Mark Hanlon

Screenplay

John Pogue

Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

July 24, 2014

3

Wetter than a fishes bathing costume.

It’s a pretty unadventurous title that matches the content of the film. Directed by Steve Beck and starring Gabriel Byrne, Desmond Harrington, Ron Eldard and Julianna Margulies, plot finds a salvage crew discovering a long lost passenger liner out in the remote Bering Sea. With the laws of the sea stating that they can keep what they find, they are delighted to find gold on board. But it’s not long before strange things start to happen.

It starts of real well with a bloody and gruesome prelude, the production design is super and everything is in place for a chiller out there in the foggy waters. Unfortunately what we actually get is a predictable series of clichés cribbed from better movies of the past, none of which capable of eliciting a genuine scare. The makers think that having a bombastic techno score accompanying the dramatic moments will make them appear more shocking. It doesn’t, while the cast are ill served by direction and writing.

Horror 101 for beginners. 3/10

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$35,000,000.00

Revenue:

$71,142,361.00

Keywords

treasure
cruise
pilot
ghost ship
gore
tugboat
salvage
supernatural horror
deserted ship