Synopsis
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 "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
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Cast
- Tony ShalhoubArthur Kriticos
- Embeth DavidtzKalina Oretzia
- Matthew LillardDennis Rafkin
- Shannon ElizabethKathy Kriticos
- Rah DiggaMaggie Bess
- Alec RobertsRobert 'Bobby' Kriticos
- JR BourneBenjamin Moss
- F. Murray AbrahamCyrus Kriticos
- Matthew HarrisonDamon
- Charles AndreTeam Member
Recommendations
- 63
Baltimore Sun
As scary Halloween movies go, Thirteen Ghosts' "Oh, please" factor is pretty darn high. - 50
Boston Globe
A formulaic script, a tired plot -- and uninspired dialogue all point up the real star. It's the house, - 38
New York Post
What follows is very gruesome indeed, though the footage of people being chased by hideous ghosts soon becomes rather dull. - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
The physical look of the picture is splendid. The screenplay is dead on arrival. The noise level is torture. - 25
Christian Science Monitor
The movie's one good performance is given by the house, full of ominous inscriptions, inscrutable chambers, and fiendish machines. The human characters are played with various degrees of manic overacting. - 25
Miami Herald
The set design of Thirteen Ghosts may have been expensive, but its thrills are cheap. - 20
Washington Post
Tries to combine humor with ghostly horror but excels at neither. - 20
L.A. Weekly
A brutish affair replete with sliced bodies, a diced storyline and enough clanky dialogue to wake the dead.
