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11/03/02
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Ghost Ship (2002)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:3
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: With a plot as creaky as the boat, Ghost Ship fails to deliver the scares.
Theatrical Release:Oct 25, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $30,079,316
Synopsis: The salvage crew aboard the tugboat Arctic Warrior is the best in the business. Under the leadership of Captain Sean Murphy (GABRIEL BYRNE), and with the expertise of salvage team leader Maureen... [More]
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Desmond Harrington, Ron Eldard
Director: Steve Beck
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Reviews for Ghost Ship
Top CriticA lame script, featuring sorry dialogue and a senseless story, is more likely to provoke laughs than screams from its intended audience.
10/30/02
Top CriticIn a cut-and-paste job more transparent than ectoplasm, Ghost Ship screenwriters Mark Hanlon and John Pogue plunder every notable horror movie from the last 30 years.
10/29/02
Top CriticA dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going.
10/29/02
Top CriticAudiences will feel more tricked than treated after sitting through this silly gorefest that wastes the talents of several good actors.
10/26/02
Top CriticA ticket to tedium, a horror movie so devoid of horror that mouths will open wide in yawns, without a scream to be heard.
10/26/02
Top CriticIf you're in the right B-movie frame of mind, it may just scare the pants off you.
10/26/02
Top CriticThis creaking vessel of a movie can't spice a routine story with genuine horror.
10/26/02
Top CriticThe plot doesn't always make sense, despite a thunderous explicatory montage halfway through, but as a fresh setting for terror shenanigans, this Ghost Ship is somewhere between B minus and the High Cs.
10/25/02
Top CriticDoesn't orchestrate the scares with much finesse.
10/25/02
Top CriticLaunched with a few surprising touches and a disturbingly bloody prelude, horror pic collapses under the weight of its own dull conception and weak direction, dialogue and character portraits.
10/25/02
Top CriticThe whole thing plays out with the drowsy heaviness of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit.
10/25/02
Top CriticA fine, old-fashioned haunting on the high seas.
10/25/02
Top CriticA stupid, derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense.
10/25/02
Top CriticA big, incoherent bore, interesting only as an example of assembly-line movie-making gone awry.
10/25/02
Top CriticTalk about scary -- the entire last half of the flick is a spectral presence that can hardly be said to exist.
10/25/02
Top CriticIt's better than you expect but not as good as you hope.
10/25/02
Top CriticAll the Queen's Men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels, it should pay reparations to viewers.
10/25/02
Top CriticWas I scared? Only at the prospect of Beck's next project. Let's see, a haunted house, a haunted ship, what's next . . . Ghost Blimp?
10/25/02
Top CriticIn the not-too-distant future, movies like Ghost Ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds. Right now, they're merely signposts marking the slow, lingering death of imagination.
10/24/02
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April 12, 2007:
Sequel Buzz on "Haunted Hill" and "Fast and the Furious"?
For those of you who were desperately waiting to see a sequel to "House on Haunted Hill," your wait is soon over. Also, raise your hand if you're interested in seeing... More...
July 21, 2006:
Trailer Bulletin: Hilary Swank in "The Reaping"
Those Dark Castle guys are at it again. From the studio that brought you "Ghost Ship," "Gothika," and "House of Wax" comes "The Reaping"... More...
June 20, 2006:
Who's Ready for Another Trip to "Haunted Hill"?
Bloody-Disgusting.com (arguably the best horror site out there) is reporting that Dark Castle Entertainment (the guys behind "Ghost Ship," "Gothika," and... More...
July 11, 2005:
Pogue Pens Remake of a French Fright Flick
Screenwriter John Pogue has sold his pitch for a remake of the 2002 French horror film "Malefique" to Paramount, says Variety. Producer Neal Moritz... More...
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