2002 Directed by Steve Beck
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
Dane A. Davis Richard Adrian Julia Evershade John Roesch Gregg Rudloff Alyson Dee Moore Linda Lew Ken S. Polk Paul 'Salty' Brincat Andrew Lackey
Village Roadshow Pictures NPV Entertainment Dark Castle Entertainment Ghost Ship Films Pty. Ltd. Warner Bros. Pictures
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in my factual opinion every straight man would fuck a sexy titty ghost and you can't convince me otherwise!
I was 17 when I stumbled out of my friends station wagon, cloud of smoke billowing behind me, as I shuffled toward the local shit house amc on opening night to see Ghost Ship. I remember having a decent enough time, but the intro has been the only thing I’ve remembered since that night.
I know it’s been talked about to death, but that opening really is killer—that music starts and those beautiful opening credits (the pink text might be my fav) leading to an swanky upper class Holocaust of severed bodies is a bold intro and I love it. It’s also a prime example of cinematic premature ejaculation and that’s always a bummer. The rest of the movie wasn’t…
The opening was awesome but when we jump forward to present day it becomes a dumb cheese fest that is so obviously a movie from the 2000’s.
It’s premise evokes a lot of potential but it’s execution doesn’t fully reach the heights it could. The characters are weird and are always aggressively talking to each other for some reason. I had some fun with it but it’s a huge meh.
The tagline is ‘SEA EVIL.’ Seriously, cmon Hollywood. Like I know ‘Ghost Ship’ is a maritime term for an actual vessel with no living crew onboard, but for a movie title it just sounds like a film by The Asylum.
Ghost Ship is my guilty pleasure.
Love anything related to boats, ships, cruise lines, etc.
Title alone is what peaked my interest since its release.
Opening sequence alone is crazy bizarre and unexpected and the breakdown of the event later in the film.
Love the cast:
Keep forgetting that Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) plays the little girl.
Sexy Karl Urban.
Still cringe from the canned beans/worms sequance
With a fun sound track.
End credit song: Not Falling
Performed by: Mudvayne
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2MfxAp6FLg
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absolute shite. zero atmosphere, a horrible constructed narrative, faceless characters (despite having descent actors on board, what in gods name did drive Gabriel Byrne to do this?), and on top of it this is utterly racist - the existence of a sex-driven black character and a stupid hispanic bogan (both dying early of course) is pretty unimaginable in a big budget flick 20 years later. hollywoods worst of the worst.
The way hamfruitcake and I debased ourselves for Karl Urban today by rewatching this trash.
If Butcher was the one who tried to fuck that ghost...he would simply succeed.
The opening still holds up. And Emily Browning plays a damn child ghost here and her character still has more personality than what she was given in Sucker Punch.
Cinematic Time Capsule
2002 Marathon - Film #145
”We’re all trapped here”
Welcome aboard the cheesy ship, Ghost Ship!
It’ll sucker you in with a wonderfully cheesy ‘cheese cutter’ opener, but then set you adrift upon sillier seas of cheese!
Including a cheesy story, cheesy music and super cheesy effects packed with more cheesy CGI than a Mind’s Eye video.
Oh, and did I mention the whole thing’s super silly and very cheesy?
“Call me if you need anything”
“How about a pizza?”
Oh, you know, the old haunted house on a blank kind of story with the gold and the greed and the ten little Indians wandering off and dying one by one and the bad early 2000’s CGI and the Mudvayne on the soundtrack and Desmond Harrington with his two beady eyes like pissholes in the snow and sad tired old Gabriel Byrne with the resting Irish drunk face and the halfway decent set design with the rusted engine room and the what the hell happened to Ron Eldard and remember Isaiah Washington got fired from Grey’s Anatomy cause he used a homophobic slur and tried to punch old Patrick Dempsey and the Karl Urban with long hair and the opening…
Armed with only my trusty vpn and an optimistic spring in my step, I set off to Netflix Netherlands (who seem to be the only ones high enough to play this atm) for a journey of discovery aboard the good ship Ghost.
Jeez.
First up, the lurid pink title credits and introduction scenes of deck dancing with Francesca Rettondini singing are bloody gorgeous. Top-notch stuff in fact, and with one of the premier opening sequences in all of horror that had me thinking of Sion Sono's Japanese classic Tag, Ghost Ship sets sail beautifully.
That's pretty much where it ends though. 14-year-old Emily Browning in her breakout role as a ghost child is a highlight in what is otherwise a…
