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GHOST SHIP Send This Review to a Friend
After "The Ring" we could hardly expect another horror film as bad, but "Ghost Ship" manages to be competitive. At least it nails down runner-up status. While not quite as dopey, it also strains credulity even for a ghost story. Worse, it is extremely unpleasant, to say the least, especially at the outset.
Aboard the luxury ship Antonia Graza in 1962 the passengers are having a gala evening when tragedy strikes. We see heads being lopped off, blood streaming everywhere and a general horror show. What happened?
Forty years later nobody has yet found that ship, which disappeared, missing somewhere at sea. A Canadian Air Force pilot named Jack Ferriman (Desmond Harrington) contacts a hot shot salvage team and reports that he has seen the ship in the Bering Sea. Off they all go, headed by Captain Murphy (Gabriel Byrne), with his crew including one woman, Maureen Epps (Julianna Margulies), along with the guys, played by Isaiah Washington, Ron Eldard, Karl Urban and Alex Dimitriades.
When they board the eerie still-afloat vessel, strange things begin to happen. Maureen keeps seeing a little girl ghost, blood oozes in different places and menace is in the air. There's also gold in a trunk. The gibberish that follows is unbearably silly. "Ghost Ship," directed by Steve Beck from a screenplay by Mark Hanlon and John Pogue, is short on explanations, as if they would help any. Some ghosts are better left undisturbed, especially in a film that is as ghastly as it is ghostly. A Warner Bros. release
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