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Summary: This is what I DON'T want to see in a haunted house flick.
Review: I actually had somewhat expectations for Thirteen Ghosts, considering it was from the same production team that gave us the House on Haunted Hill remake, a mindless, but enjoyable scary thrill ride. Unfortunately, Thirteen Ghosts is mostly mindless, with a handful of good moments here and there, but hardly enough to make this worthwhil to even horror buffs.Tony Shalhoub stars as a teacher whose wife was killed in a fire that burned down their house. Shalhoub and his two kids are in financial troube, but their problems seem to be solved when Shalhoub's late uncle (F. Murray Abraham, proving furhter that he's not nearly as good an actor as his Oscar might indicate) will his house to his niece. Unlukcy enough for Shalhoub and his family, the entire place locks up and it turns out twelve ghosts inhabit the place and are looking to cause some death and destruction. Thirteen Ghosts is mess, thanks to Steve Beck's hyperkinetic direction. In true MTV-style, Beck flashes several frames per second, making this an assault on the senses that's even more unbearable than Stigmata. I don't understand, does Beck actually believe these quick cuts will generate scares? Does he believe he's made a truly frightening film because of this style? If he does, I feel sorry for the guy because all he's accomplished is creating doldrums. Yes, Thirteen Ghosts commits the cardinal sin of a Hollywood thrill ride: it's boring. Why is this? Aside from the direction, it's pretty obvious who's expendable and who isn't. You know Shalhoub and his family are going to make it through more or less unscathed, which is too bad because I would have liked to have seen Shannon Elizabeth in a gruesome death scene. Faring the best of the cast is Matthew Lillard, who's always amusing, and actually kind of likeable here. As I said before, there are a few good points. A couple of death scenes are fairly memorable and some of the ghosts' physical appearances are appropriately ghastly. The production design is actually fairly impressive, but not my cup of tea. The idea of glass walls that make up a house might interest some, but I prefer a good old-fashioned mansion for a haunted abode. It'd be a bit pointless to mention how brainless the movie is (they remove glass at one point for protection from the ghosts) why not just remove more and more glass until they reach outside?) or how goofy the plot twists are (I bet you'd never expect the ending would be taken straight from, gag, Casper!). I've come to expect such silliness from these films, but certainly, the trashiness factor didn't hurt House on Haunted Hill because it was enjoyable from beginning to end (and really, it was good trash). Thirteen Ghosts is just silly and dull, never a good combination.
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Summary: [junk]--watch castle's version
Review: gore, special effects, bad acting--typical modern horror movie. have some respect for yourself and the horror genre and stay away. watch "session 9", a real horror movie, which is largely hated because american audiences are idiots who hate thinking and imagination, which are packed into "session" and are comfortably absent in this piece of excrement. uggggggh, i hope the genre doesn't die.
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Summary: Creepy but trashy!
Review: This is a 100% typical Hollywood scary movie and has almost the same technical structure as "The House On Haunted Hill". The only big difference besides the plot is that "13 Ghosts" has contents the more expensive visual effects and with Shannon Elizabeth something nice to be focused on...
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Summary: fairly cool
Review: But not completely because the pithy final respectively end is without ideas and not really thrilling. Certainly before the end something real creepy happened! The effect of the musical atmospere in combination with the arrangement and atmosphere of the house is really successful. The ghosts frighten you with their sudden appearance and movements.
Instead of the end the movie is mostly thrilling and weird like a good horror movie is supposed to be. But you should watch it before you will buy the dvd because it is surely not the best horror movie ever! But it is in between good pastime entertainment.
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Summary: DVD's extras are putting perfume on a...
Review: ...well, you know (if you've seen John Carpenter's They Live that is). 13 Ghosts takes the quaint little haunted house comedy by William Castle and tosses it into a blender with A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and 4 (where it lifts its autoyard sequence) and Dark Castle's high octane remake of The House on Haunted Hill (where it takes everything else) and mixes up a rancid milkshake of a movie. Plotless (I've read the they started shooting the movie with an incomplete script, boy does THAT show) and pointless (having seen the exact same scenario played out in a far better manner in The House on Haunted Hill), 13 Ghosts is an utter waste of time. Stay with the House on the Hill, you'll be glad you did.
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Summary: ''Applaud ''
Review: I think this movie is the best movie I have EVER seen because the graphics are good and the whole plot of the story is excellent! One place for improvement is NEVER kill Matthew Lilard!!!
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Summary: There are no more good horror films any more.
Review: This film is sooooooooo dull. Bad acting, a so-so story, and not very gory and scary as the cover makes it look. The FX are the only good things in this film.
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Summary: Good Movie
Review: I thought that this movie was really good. All of the actors/actresses did a really good job in their parts. A lot of people say that Shannon Elizabith is a bad actress, but I think that she is amazing. Matthew Lillard did a excelent job of playing a freak, as usual! This is one of my favorite movies. And the ghosts, they did a really good job! I have to say good job to the people that made the ghosts look so real.
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Summary: A waste of time and money
Review: I saw the original, and it was campy fun. I was afarid this movie would be too gross for me. It wasn't. The trueth is that the movie was too stupid for me. The dialog is pathetically bad, and the story line is absurd. The movie attempted to be shocking, but wasn't really. Nor was it spooky or scarey. I love a good ghost story, but this was pathetic. There was no rhyme or reason to this movie. It was incoherent. Apparently, the producers felt that money alone was enough to make a good movie. They were wrong.
I gave this a 1 star, because there are no zero star ratings.
The only good thing I can say about this movie, is that it (inadvertantly) made me laugh. A lot.
Don't buy this movie, don't rent it, don't even watch it for free.
One more note- my wife, found that the constant *flashing* in this movie made her queezy.
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Summary: Wicked!
Review: I just love this movie! It is a horror mirical to me! The computerated ghosts are great and they look scary! And I think the actors did a great job.
The movie is about, after a man named Aurther's wife gets burned to death in a house fire, his Uncle Cyris, whom celected ghosts for his house, dies, and Aurther and his two kids, Cathy and Bobbie get his house. But after only being there for a short while, a man named Dennis Rafkin, a old partner of Cyris, warns them that there are ghosts in the house, everywhere, and the only way to see them is to wear a sertan kind of glasses. Then Aurthers kids are taken by ghost's and Dennis, Aurther, and the maid Maggie must find them. But while they are doing that they run into a woman named Cathlien. She tells them that there are twelve ghosts trapped in the house, inclueding Aurthers late wife. She then tells him that Aurther is the thirteen ghost, and he has to jump into the "Eye of Hell" to save his kids and free his wifes soul.
This movie will leave you on the edge of your seat in suspention. Even thought it is full of gore it is still a very good movie, and I recomend it to anyone who loves horror movies.
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