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Summary: ALL 13 GHOSTS ARE A BORE
Review: i give it one star for the intreseting house-- the rest was just bad. it had the potential to be something good but with bad acting and too many ghosts that they didnt know what to do with i was highly bored. Maybe it shouldve just been three ghosts but 13 u lost track of who u were suppose to be scared of-- Then it was a little melodramatic with the whole dead mom thing. I was totally bored and just ready to leave by the time the predictable end came around. Wait till it comes on USA!
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Summary: Unworthy Remake
Review: In the 60's, William Castle released the original "13 Ghosts", a movie which has just about everything going for it.Why oh why couldn't they leave well enough alone? Ok, I'll give you that the House is a cool environment, but unfortunately, it's the only cool thing in the movie. The high-impact-acrylic ghost viewers are, well, boring. F. Murray Abraham is wasted on this. He is given little else to do but show up and grimace. What a far cry from Geoffery Rush's performance in the nearly creditable remake of House on Haunted Hill. Rush was a delight, Abraham barely registers. Save your time and money -- see the original in it's Illusion-O DVD version! I was so disappointed. I really WANTED this to be good, but I fell asleep. I'm giving it 3 stars only because of the art direction. Maybe somebody can take the concept and make a halloween haunted house out of it next year, but other than that this is a film best forgotten.
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Summary: Just as bad as "House on Haunted Hill..."
Review: It's really not my fault that I went to this movie. I was bribed into it, so I only paid half price. But, now I think it wasn't even worth that. A couple of the effects weren't too bad when the spirits were stuck behind glass walls. Some of them were pretty scary looking, but I wasn't very scared watching it. I was actually irritated every time there was a flash (mostly when the characters had the "special glasses" on) my eyes are pretty sensitive and it burned when I saw the white light, which was pretty often. I'm not into "Hollywood" movies that cater to the public anyway, but you know its bad when they have such stupid humor like "I'm stuck in a house with a bunch of crazy white folks." Or use someone like Shannon Elizabeth who can't be taken seriously as an actress anyway. Most of the movie has the characters chasing each other around a glass house, running away from spirits who can't get past the glass walls because of the "entrapment spells" or whatever. Save your money... or at least get someone to pay for half of it. :)
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Summary: The perfect movie for Halloween
Review: I saw 13 Ghosts yesterday.I knew it was from the producers of House On Haunted Hill so I figured it would be very good and have some awesome special effects.I was right!!
The movie is about a guy who lost his wife and basicly everything he owned in a fire.He,his kis,and the nanny now live in a small apartment and hate it.One day the guy's lawer comes and shows the guy hat everything is going to change forhim and his family and that they have just inheritehis late uncle's house.So they go to check out this place and there is a guy there who claims he is an electrition,but he is actually a psycic.When they get in this house they think it is all amazing and that nothing is wrong with it,until they are informed by the psycic that the pace is haunted by some very angry ghosts.
The movie is flat out awesome.It has some amazing special effects and some pretty scary ghosts.It has some very cting from the entire cast(including Shannon Elizabeth and Mathew Lilard).
It's a great treat for all fans of ghost stories.
Rating:
Summary: Just Decent
Review: Being a lover of horror movies and a backer of the always good Tony Shalhoub, I was looking forward to seeing this movie. Based on the classic William Castle horror movie, I was kind of impressed that they didn't make this one stink, as remakes usually do. However, plot and logic go flying out the window and the film turns to mush a little way into the flick. The plot is centralized around a pretty interesting premise that a group of trapped ghosts can give a man total power of the future. I can't really say more, cause it could possibly ruin part of the movie, but going off of what I've said, it's pretty clear that this would be an easy idea to screw up. After a pretty cool opening twenty minutes, the film turns into your basic, run of the mill horror films with stupid characters doing stupid things, like running the wrong way constantly, splitting up, etc. It seems like horror movies nowadays are just content with having scary things jumping out from behind pillars, corners, and whatever else they can hide behind. The neat thing about this is that sometimes the scary things don't have to hide at all. As in most modern horror movies, the make-up and production values are incredible. The gory makeup is pretty shocking and the house that is the central figure in the movie is really neat looking. But the direction seems to squander this with quick cuts and odd camera angles, that instead of creating a sense of tension, as they were meant to do, only make you mad. Clear shots of the ghosts are never seen, as apparently director Steve Beck decided it would be scarier to never truly see a lot of them clearly. The acting in the movie is pretty good, and Shalhoub doesn't dissapoint. Matthew Lillard is given some great lines to work with, and he actually does a credible job while continuing to spew saliva all over everyone else. The rest of the cast is pretty much wasted, but this isn't a drama so you can deal with it. Sometimes the logic in the film slips to a point where you want to stand up and shout out how stupid it is, but the death scenes are relatively well done. The first major death scene is a doosey that'll make your girlfriend cringe. Overall, this is an entertaining popcorn Halloween horror movie, and that's all it was intended to be. Even though you might be disappointed in a few aspects of what happens throughout the short hour and a half running time, you'll still feel pretty satisfied when it's all over. THIR13EN GHOSTS is the film equivalent of eating CiCi's Pizza. It's filling for a while, but give it some time and you'll feel hungry again.
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Summary: What a GREAT Movie!!!!
Review: I came to the theater kind of weary but when i got into my seat the moive had my interest the WHOLE time and it didn't let go but it only didn't get my attention when some of the dialog happened in the beginning. But this is a movie worth seeing and is fun too watch!!!
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Summary: Excellent horror-thriller!
Review: I have not seen the original "13 Ghosts", but I love the remake.
I saw "13 Ghosts" yesterday and I thought it was one of the best ghost/haunted house movies ever, it's up with "The Frighteners" and "House on haunted hill(1999)". This is the second film by "Dark Castle". I really liked their first two films, and I eagerly await a third shall it be made. "13 Ghosts" has pretty much the same plot as the original. The film starts out at a junkyard, where a team of "ghosthunters" are hunting for the 12th ghost. So, after a massacre of the ghosthunters, they get the 12th ghost. Then we go to the present day where a widower has just inherited a house from his late uncle. The widower (Tony Shaloub) and his family go to the house and are sealed inside.
And one by one the ghosts are released.
The visual effects are just amazing, and I liked Mathew Lillard, I felt he did a good job as the psychic "ghosthunter". "13 Ghosts" is a very scary film. If you like haunted house or ghost films, then you will love this.
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Summary: visually stunning, but the plot is well...
Review: What 13 ghosts lacks in plot, it makes up for in eerie images, scary ghosts, and creative death sequences. Matthew Lillard (from SCREAM), plays a man who gets bad headaches whenever he comes near anything dead. Which is why F. Murray Abraham uses him to capture ghosts. Why is he capturing ghosts? Who knows? Who cares? With chills aplenty, this film quickly loses its thin plotline and lets the ghosts run amuck. (THANK GOD) Even when we find out the point of capturing the ghosts, we don't care because it sounds so stupid. There are a couple of plot twists that make this average horror movie try to attain something more, that only sometime succeed. If you like gory visual effects you should like this, but don't look for a plot. An enjoyable visual ride just perfect for Halloween. If it came out at any other time of year, my review would be a bit more harsh.
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Summary: Good movie
Review: This is one of my fav movies. Matt Lillard is soooo hot! Why did he have to die? lol. I really love this movie, and some of the ghosts are really cool and creepy. I can watch this movie like 10 times a day! It is so great!
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Summary: 13 Yawns!
Review: This movie was terrible and should be named 13 Yawns. The acting was poor and without substance. Not one person did a good job acting their part. From the beginning this movie should have been made for the Sci-Fi channel and not the big screen. I forced myself to watch the entire movie to see if it would have any good scenes, but it failed to deliver one. However, the ghosts were made up very well.
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