Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Gabriel ByrneCaptain Sean Murphy
- Julianna MarguliesMaureen Epps
- Desmond HarringtonJack Ferriman
- Ron EldardDodge
- Isaiah WashingtonGreer
- Karl UrbanMunder
- Emily BrowningKatie Harwood
- Francesca RettondiniFrancesca
- Bob RuggieroCaptain
- Jamie GiddensFriendly Officer
Recommendations
- 60
Washington Post
The plot doesn't always make sense, despite a thunderous explicatory montage halfway through, but as a fresh setting for terror shenanigans. - 50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Beck wants to dazzle the audience. I'd settle for a story. - 38
Boston Globe
Pureed, predictable conflation of ''Alien'' and ''Titanic'' and ''The Shining.'' - 38
Charlotte Observer
Ghost Ship, which can best be described by altering one consonant in the second word, sustains the stylishness of its opening for exactly three minutes. - 38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Pretty much what you'd expect -- just another haunted house that happens to float. - 30
The New York Times
So preoccupied with delivering its effects that it doesn't bother to make sense of its story. - 25
Miami Herald
Coincidentally, this is the second movie in two weeks about a haunted seafaring vessel ("Below" is the other), and if you see just one, this shouldn't be it. - 20
Austin Chronicle
Meandering, sub-aquatic mess: It's so bad it's good, but only if you slide in on a freebie.
