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Thirteen Ghosts (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 87
Fresh: 10
Rotten:77
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Consensus: The production design is first rate, but 13 Ghosts is distinctly lacking in scares.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for horror violence/gore, nudity and some language
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Oct 26, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $41,601,840
Synopsis: 13 GHOSTS, Steve Beck's feature debut, is the second recent remake (following THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL) of a film by 1950s and 60s camp horror king, William Castle. Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub)... 13 GHOSTS, Steve Beck's feature debut, is the second recent remake (following THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL) of a film by 1950s and 60s camp horror king, William Castle. Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub) is a financially strapped widower struggling to raise two children, Kathy (Shannon Elizabeth) and Bobby (Alec Roberts), after losing his wife in a house fire. A stroke of apparent luck arrives when Arthur learns he has inherited a mansion from his mysterious Uncle Cyrus (F. Murray Abraham). Ecstatic, Arthur whisks the kids and nanny, Maggie (Rah Digga) off to their new home, a bizarre glass and steel structure with strange Latin inscriptions carved on the walls. The family is thrilled, until a psychic and former employee of Cyrus', Rafkin (Matthew Lillard), reveals that Arthur's departed uncle was a power hungry ghost collector who captured twelve spirits in the house. Arthur is skeptical. But when his children disappear, and Rafkin gives him a pair of special glasses that allow him to view the house's gruesome inhabitants, he believes. In Beck's special effects-laden gore-fest, the two men race against time to find the children as the house's strange internal mechanism begins sealing off the exits and freeing the angry ghosts. [More]
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tony Shalhoub, Shannon Elizabeth, Kathryn Anderson
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tony Shalhoub, Shannon Elizabeth, Kathryn Anderson, J.R. Bourne, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Rah Digga, Alec Roberts
Director: Steve Beck
Director: Steve Beck
Screenwriter: Neal Marshall, Steve Beck
Producer: Joel Silver, Dan Cracchiolo, Gilbert Adler, Robert Zemeckis
Composer: John Frizzell
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Reviews for Thirteen Ghosts
There isn't enough dry ice in the world to conceal the rot of stupidity hovering over "13 Ghosts." With Embeth Davidtz and Matthew Lillard both overacting to a lower power in supporting roles, there apparently also aren't enough acting coaches.
Like the huge glass house that serves as its centerpiece, the film is shiny, sterile, bland, vacuous, and completely pointless.
Thirteen Ghosts is so bad it scared me more than the Evil Dead knock off ghouls.
É impressionante que 13 Fantasmas tenha sido montado por três editores, já que a trama (na falta de um termo melhor) flui de maneira absolutamente caótica.
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October 22, 2001:
The art direction of that house is clearly amazing... that's one cool-looking set. Will that sell a movie though? ![]()
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