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Ghost Ship Movie Rating: 
Cheap Thrills | |
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Titanic meets The Haunting in this tale of a salvage crew that discovers
a seemingly deserted luxury liner drifting at sea 40 years after it mysteriously
disappeared.
Although the film teases with a clever opening (which easily qualifies as one of the most gleefully gruesome in recent memory), the action quickly reverts to standard horror-flick frivolity. Ignoring the trickling blood and eerie echoes of long-dead passengers, the crew (led by Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, and Ron Eldard) decides the best way to explore the spooky ship is, naturally, to split up. One by one, they venture into its bowels, only to be butchered by an unseen bogeyman. The scares aren't terribly scary, but those looking for cheap thrills won't be disappointed. Anyone hoping for more, however, is likely to come up wet. |
Gabriel Byrne sees a ghost. ©2002 Warner Brothers. |
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