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Summary: For Pete's sake.......No scare factor at all.
Review: I went in and waited from one scene to the next waiting to get spooked. It didn't happen. Although the film boasts lavish special effects, it didn't play with my mind intelligently as "The Ring" did. Now that's one that had me leave the lights on, the first time since "The Exorcist". How do they the producers even think that they'll scare anyone. With a high budget, I'm surprised that they couldn't come with something intelligent. It was cheesy at best. A B movie all the way though.
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Summary: Recipe for sea horror.
Review: (Three and a half stars)
Take The Shining's psychotic stuff, Clive Barker's stylish gore, Titanic's romance (a sprinkle), mix with The Shere's air headed mystery, throw it all into a blender, add two cups of B-movie milk, some thrash-core, and what do you get? A damn scary movie that, if rather scattered, is at the very least interesting enough to stick to your insides for a while, and anything else it comes in contact with.
Gabriel Byrne is a dissapointingly cliche'd sea dog of a captain. But I'd rather watch him do this than _____?.
Julianna Margulies does a respectable, tough and human, sea gal, keeping the Ripley/Alien, Mira Jovovich/Resident Evil style female heroine alive, and the lone survivor. The rest of the cast is about as interesting as a truck stop soap opera, with the exception of the ghosts.
It's good in that B-movie way, to put it simply. And if I have to watch gratuitous gore, I'd rather see it parade in an overdone oceanliner grand ball dress than a Camp Friday the 13th T-shirt...
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Summary: part Alien, part Shining, part awful...
Review: I went and saw "Ghost Ship" last night. I came in wanting to like it a little more than "The Ring," which sort of annoyed me, but it just didn't happen.This is one of those movies that is totally ruined by its last twenty minutes to half hour. It starts off as a decent enough "Alien" knock-off set on the high sea. There's a blue collar salvage team led, oddly enough, by Gabriel Byrne, who get a tip about an abandoned cruiseship that could conceivably worth millions for their salvage efforts. Once they get to ship and start to learn some of its unseemly history, act two shifts from an "Alien" knockoff to a "Shining" knockoff. I had no problem with that. Thos are two of my favorite movies, and up to this point, "Ghost Ship" was a fun, enjoyable little horror movie that didn't take itself too seriously. Then the last act came, and knocked me over the head with an unlikely, unbelievable metaphysical explaination for the whole thing. The movie's finale, which shows cgi souls departing from the ship and finding there way up to heaven, is about as hokey as the first scene, which decorum prohibits me from describing here, is gruesomely unexpected. So, if you're in the mood for a fun, audience participation horror movie, go see the first hour, but don't say I didn't warn you about the ending.
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Summary: Good, but I expected more; I was a little let down
Review: Ever since I read about this film ... about a year ago, even before I knew the plot, just from reading the title, I knew it would be awsome. And it was pretty awsome, but I expected more scares. The movie is about a salvage crew who get an offer to find a long-lost fancy ocean liner ship adrift at sea for about 40 years. They figure there's probably valuable stuff on the ship, so they say "yes" to the offer. Boy, they sure were wrong! ... A little while after they explore the ship, strange things happen and the ghosts of the people who died on the ship 40 years ago in a freak accident come back to haunt them. If you want to see what happens next, go see it! It's still in theaters and it's doing really good. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a sequel. GHOST SHIP IS RATED R FOR TERROR, HORROR VIOLENCE/GORE, LANGUAGE AND NUDITY. (13 year old viewer.)
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Summary: Renting this would have been a better investment.
Review: I would have not seen this movie in the theatre had I not been persuaded by the girlfriend on Halloween night. Seventeen dollars later I was left thinking "at least the motive for the haunting of the ship was original." The one "jump" the movie got out of me was only because my mind was distracted figuring out how a magnet was used to stop the pendulum on the clock (see the movie and you will understand.) What was with Gabriel Byrne's sometimes Scottish, sometimes American accent? Overall, the movie was a "yawner," with the exception of the opening scene, which would satisfy any "gore hungry" fans appetite. As well as a very creatively scored, filmed and edited sequence revealing how the ship became haunted. I am not advising the reader to avoid this movie, but have to say 'Ghost Ship' would have been a better investment as a rental. Also note; two of the other six audience members left the theatre around a half-hour in.
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Summary: Ghost Ship-Your Average Horror Film
Review: Ghost Ship, starring Gabriel Byrne, Juliana Marguiles and Isaiah Washington was decent yet somewhat intruiging. It failed to be scary on all attempts, but I gave it three stars mainly due to the visual and artful effects. This film is no where near sophisticated or even mildly intelligent. It's about a 40 year old ocean liner, found by a salvage crew. The crew of course finds the ship, due to an inquisitive pilot who flew over the sea and spotted this luxury liner. He wanted to investigate it and called upon this crew to help him with his goal. The performances are decent and the acting is near horrific. This film is near the B minus range or the high Cs. This film features a specifally grotesque, gruesome and gory beginning sequence. One of the most goriest and most brutal sequences in a long time for horror films. Rather graphic, you need to see it I can't exactly describe it to you, but that scene was filmed well and rather realistic and pratical. The film features a few other bloody scenes. Ghost Ship is rated R for Strong Violence/Gore, Language and Sexuality. The profanity is not excessive or extensive, neither is the sexuality. Ghost Ship, directed by sophomore director Steve Beck (Thirteen Ghosts) is somewhat entertaining. If I were you I'd see it only once and maybe that would be about it. If you don't want to see this film, atleast rent The Shining, which was rather scary and unpleasant. Ghost Ship, in theatres everywhere October 25, 2002.
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Summary: What is scary about it, is that it was made!
Review: ...I saw a preview for this movie when I went to see The Ring (which by the way was very scary), so I thought to myself "maybe there is hope for new horror after all" so I went to see Ghost Ship, because the previews made it look like it had potential. It didn't. Nobody got scared in the entire theatre, I know becuase as soon as the movie ended a 5 year old behind said to his dad "why did they say this was a scary movie?" The dad responded "I thought it was tupid too." As a matter of fact I heard nothing good from anybody in that theatre. Say yourself some money and go see The Ring. The Ring is scary, this isn't. You'll be sleeping not screaming. I promise you will hate this movie. It is stupider than Fear Dot Com, and we all know how stupid that... was, but it looked like star wars compared to Ghost Ship. Yes this movie is that bad! Don't see it...
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Summary: The Quality of Ghost Ship Will Haunt Me
Review: I'd been so excited to see this movie since seeing it's previews in theaters over the summer... The opening scenes are scary and are very disturbing, but that was the best part of the entire film. The rest of the movie seemed to move pretty slowly, the plot was boring and the ending was pretty corny. The casting wasn't very impressive and the special effects where somewhat average. As I watched the movie I thought to myself this could have been a made for T.V. movie, instead of a theatrical release.
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Summary: Best Horror movie of the year!
Review: Next to "Resident Evil" this has to be the best horror movie of the year. It deals within 40 years ago, an Italian cruise ship was sailing in the atlantic and everyone of the passengers has been slaughtered by a mysterious team of terrorists. Now a group of investigators explore the ship and discover that it's haunted. A very fun, entertaining, gory and geniuenly spooky movie with thrills, blood, and chills all the way plus the ending is twisted too. Also recommended: Titanic, The Fog, City of the Living Dead ( A.k.a. The Gates of Hell), From Dusk Till Dawn, Resident Evil, Roland Emmerich's Making Contact, Poltergeist, House on Haunted Hill, The Haunting, Evil Dead II, The Shining and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond.
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Summary: Must for Gabriel Byrne fans
Review: As a fan of Gabriel Byrne I went to see this movie because he stars in it. I enjoyed the movie very much. Gabriel Byrne was excellent as usual and the special effects were good. The story was similar to other haunted house/ship movies I have seen and books I have read. I plan to see this movie a second time.
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