Ghost Ship

Name: Ghost Ship
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: October 25, 2002
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 28
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard

2002

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Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: October 25, 2002 | R

Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard

Summary: In a remote region of the Bering Sea, a salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger liner lost for more than 40 years. Once onboard, the crew must uncover the truth about the ship's past and unlock the mystery that threatens their very survival. (Warner Bros.)

Director: Steve Beck

Genre(s): Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 91 min

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Richard Harrington

The plot doesn't always make sense, despite a thunderous explicatory montage halfway through, but as a fresh setting for terror shenanigans. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Is the film worth seeing? Depends. It breaks no new ground as horror movies go, but it does introduce an intriguing location, and it's well made technically. It's better than you expect but not as good as you hope. Read full review

James Berardinelli

About as frightening as Walt Disney's Haunted Mansion. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

The movie is simultaneously soft and icky; the gross-out effects are grafted onto a sub-"Tales from the Crypt" ghost story that never scares up any serious chills. Read full review

Stephen Holden

So preoccupied with delivering its effects that it doesn't bother to make sense of its story. Read full review

Chris Kaltenbach

Ghost Ship would have been so much better if they'd just let the ship do more of the acting.

Manohla Dargis

See evil. See evil run. Run, evil, run all the way to cable television purgatory. Read full review

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Tendril28

May 29, 2021

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2 of 10 users found this helpful28

Aversion68

May 2, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Anachronisms The handgun Francesca uses right before her death is a model that didn't exist in 1962. It is a Czech CZ-75, first marketed in 1976.… Expand

11 of 29 users found this helpful1118

Aviatrix

Jan 19, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The ghost captain tells Gabriel Byrne's character that the Antonio Graza rescued a ship called the Lorelei. Rescuing this ship is what eventually led to the destruction of the Antonia Graza and the death of all its passengers. "Die Lorelei" is a German poem about a siren-type woman who lures boats to ruin and sailors to their deaths… Expand

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FilipeNeto

Apr 1, 2018

When we think we've seen a bit of everything in horror, comes a movie that surprises us with something new. It can be good or bad, better or worse achieved, but has the added value of novelty. This is one of this cases: movies about haunted houses come in droves, but movies about hauntedWhen we think we've seen a bit of everything in horror, comes a movie that surprises us with something new. It can be good or bad, better or worse achieved, but has the added value of novelty. This is one of this cases: movies about haunted houses come in droves, but movies about haunted ships is something different. The director (Steve Beck) and screenwriter (Mark Hanlon) did a reasonable job and got a very interesting story, without the dead times and gratuitous violence that infest the actual horror films. The cast, headed by Gabriel Byrne and Julianna Margulies, also did a decent job, although I believe that Byrne would be able to admit that this was not one of his best films.

Blood abounds, there are scenes able to revolve the stomach and times when we really got stuck to the screen, but its not an overly graphic film. Everything rests beautifully in a slightly blurred picture, a very threatening and gloomy environment discreetly accentuated by sound effects. The decadent scenarios of the ship were designed in the smallest details, and are elegantly compared to their "original" aspect, through the use of a kind of "hallucinations" that closely resemble temporal flashbacks. One of the most impressive moments of the film, however, is its opening scene. Its something that we simply are not expecting to see. The end is not as strong because we, from the middle, can predict some of the key points in the outcome, removing impact to the climax. In the middle of the film, the director and screenwriter were lost, revealing themselves unable to better develop the plot.

I confess that this film impressed me when I saw it for the first time. I loved it then, and it still is one of my favorite horror movies, by its potential and its scowling environment more than by it's quality. Not a great movie, its not a work of art, but its entertaining and gives some nice chills.… Expand

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Sosmooth1982

Dec 24, 2022

The beginning and the end of this movie is really the only good thing about the movie. Everything else is just a crew chasing around a ghost girl trying to figure out what happened to her. Pretty boring.

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russiangamer

May 9, 2017

Неинтересный и нестрашный фильм, картонные персонажи, шаблонные пугалки. Но, признаться, есть капля интересного в этом море, которое называется посредственность.

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Sam

May 16, 2006

A movie so bad, so horribly wretched that it reminds that suicide exists.

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