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NUMBERS
Box Office: $30,079,316
VHS Rentals: $13,090,000
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CONSENSUS
With a plot as creaky as the boat, Ghost Ship fails to deliver the scares.
CAST & CREW
Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Desmond Harrington
Directed by Steve Beck
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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 Epps (JULIANNA MARGULIES), First Mate Greer (ISAIAH WASHINGTON) and technicians Dodge (RON ELDARD), Munder (KARL URBAN) and Santos (ALEX DIMITRIADES), they can locate any abandoned vessel, patch her up ‘till she’s seaworthy and drag her back to shore…for a price. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong violence/gore, language, and sexuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 31 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 25, 2002
Video: Mar 28, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Horror/Suspense, Adventure, Ghosts, Heroines
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Ghost Ship Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
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 "By the time the surprise ending is revealed, interest cannot be revived."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "It's Halloween season, and while Ghost Ship can't hold a candle to The Ring for true primal scares, it'll probably stay respectably afloat until at least most of the candy is gone."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
"A standard haunted house tale transplanted to the high seas."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"It should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessel are more than effectively creepy and moodily lit. So I just did."
-- Scott Weinberg, DAILY-REVIEWS
"It takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected,' but Ghost Ship somehow manages to do exactly that."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Such master screenwriting comes courtesy of John Pogue, the Yale grad who previously gave us “The Skulls” and last year’s “Rollerball.” Enough said, except: Film overboard!"
-- John Urbancich, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"The creaking, rusty ship makes a fine backdrop, but the ghosts' haunting is routine."
-- Catharine Tunnacliffe, EYE WEEKLY
"Combining quick-cut editing and a blaring heavy metal much of the time, Beck seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest System of a Down video."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"This starts off with a 1950's Doris Day feel and it gets very ugly, very fast. The first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year!"
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"With minimal imagination, you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Even as lame horror flicks go, this is lame."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe Ghost Ship."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Meandering, sub-aquatic mess: It's so bad it's good, but only if you slide in on a freebie."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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"It’s dumb, but more importantly, it’s just not scary."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Wait for it to hit cable."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"A soggy, cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dumber than its title."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILM HOBBIT
"The only surprise is that heavyweights Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis agreed to produce this; I assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"The longer the movie goes, the worse it gets, but it's actually pretty good in the first few minutes."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"A soggy, shapeless mess...just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"After the first 10 minutes, which is worth seeing, the movie sinks into an abyss of clichés, depression and bad alternative music."
-- Collin Souter, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"For a story set at sea, Ghost Ship is pretty landbound, with its leaden acting, dull exposition and telegraphed 'surprises.'"
-- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES
"'This movie sucks.'"
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"As long as they keep pumping out the cheese from Dark Castle's schlocky shock shop, I'll be there, nachos in hand, waiting to be overwhelmed with cheddar."
-- Alex Sandell, JUICY CEREBELLUM
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ROTTEN 12%
Avg. Rating: 3.7/10 |
"A spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged."
-- Matt Weitz, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"In 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."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"A dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Although there are several truly jolting scares, there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"The whole thing plays out with the drowsy heaviness of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"All the Queen's Men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels, it should pay reparations to viewers."
-- Janice Page, BOSTON GLOBE
"Was 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?"
-- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
"If you're in the right B-movie frame of mind, it may just scare the pants off you."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"A stupid, derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense."
-- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"A fine, old-fashioned haunting on the high seas."
-- Glenn Lovell, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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"This one is definitely one to skip, even for horror movie fanatics."
-- Paul Salfen, SUPERCALA.COM
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Ghost Ship" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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