Thir13en Ghosts
2001 Directed by Steve Beck
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Misery loves company
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine.
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No one will ever accuse "Thir13en Ghosts" of being a great horror fim; but it has no pretensions of being a great horror film. What it wants be to is a horror thrill-ride, and, at that, it succeeds. The film is a slick, somewhat corporate, effects-driven funhouse that is exciting and jolting. The story is a preposterous but engaging, and the backstories of the KNB designed and executed ghosts are worth digging into. Overall, "Thir13en Ghosts" is solid, scary fun.
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Seems more and more likely to me that Thirteen Ghosts is actually content to merely follow its “characters” around a series of hallways as they whine and babble endlessly, repetitiously, nonsensically; I got the feeling Thirteen Ghosts half expected me to create my own scenario (like the time Homer Simpson was shown the Unitarian propaganda film and, instead, zoned out, inventing an infinitely more exciting movie with car chases and villains and such). So sparing is this film’s narrative, I honestly defy you to tell me it isn’t introduced in one scene, resolved in one scene and completely forgotten about for the remainder of the film’s short running time. The art direction would be more spectacular, I believe, if filmed…
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Tony Shahloub stars alongside Rah Digga, Matthew Lillard and the chick who caused Jim to have a 'double premature' in the first American Pie film. Need I say more?
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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I really liked this the first time I saw it and went back in with high expectations, and to be honest it did not meet them. It is like a horror film light, there is serious gore and some nudity but it lacks real threat or punch. However I did enjoy it and put the lack of punch to Tony Shaloub he just cannot deliver the role convincingly. Still worth a watch but not anything you want to pay for.
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Without a doubt, one of the worst movies ever made.
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This terrified my on its release, but not so much on a re-watch. I like the idea of it but the ghosts aren't scary, there's no gore, no suspense, nothing makes you jump or hide behind your pillow, I could go on... It's just not much of a horror.
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OK.
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13 Ghosts decided to stick to keep a low-key promotion until the week before its release when they released the final television trailer. In the trailer, you find out that the movie is rated R for horror. This I laughed at for a long time. Of course it was also because of language, nudity, and some language, but from the proclamation of R for horror I knew that something was wrong with the people in charge of this movie.
Arthur(Tony Shalhoub), his daughter Kathy(Shannon Elizabeth), and his son live in a small apartment and hate the poor life. This soon changes as a man knocks on the door. It is a representative of Cyrus, one of Arthur’s relatives who had…
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We n33d m0re terrb1e m0vies with num6ers in their tit1es.
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Una película de terror que desde pequeño me gusta, pero personalmente ya no me da tanto miedo como antes. No se si es porque la he visto tantas veces o porque en realidad mi gusto en películas ha cambiado.
La historia es buena, no me parece que haya dejado algo sin resolver y si es un poco predecible. Los fantasmas son excelentes, muy logrados y realmente creepy. Las actuaciones son regulares.
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Disappointing. Until the cockle picking scenes towards the end most of the film is unsatisfyingly average.
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Ok at best.
Its like strolling through a maze with half of the cast of most zombie films
The 13th ghost is a fail safe.
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“13 Geister” in einer dieser Filme, die besser nie gedreht worden wären. Effekte, die nicht wirklich überzeugen, eine Story die auf eine Streichholzschachtel passt und Schauspieler, die diese Berufsbezeichnung nur tragen, weil sie in einem Film mitgewirkt haben. An “13 Geister” stimmt wirklich gar nichts. Regisseur Steve Beck (Ghost Ship) versucht zwar seinem Film Spannung zu verleihen, doch alles wirkt irgendwie aufgesetzt und nicht stimmig. Vermutlich hätte er mit einem kleineren Budget und etwas mehr Kreativität mehr aus dem Film machen können, aber so ist der ganze Film ein mit heißer Nadel gestrickter Versuch einen Mainstreamhorrorfilm zu erschaffen.
Mit Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie, Scary Movie) bietet der Film zumindest für das männliche Publikum ein kleines Highlight. Diese optische Ausschmückung kann den Film aus meiner Sicht zwar nicht retten, Erwähnung finden sollte sie aber dennoch.