Review of Ghost Ship (2002) by Alicia W — 08 Nov 2008

Ghost Ship (2002) is an exceptional horror film from Steve Beck, who previously directed the remake of Thirteen Ghosts.

The movie "Ghost Ship" starts out with a beautiful musical and dancing sequence on the Italian luxury liner "Antonia Graza" sailing off the cost of Labrador in May 1962.

For a moment you think that your watching something like an episode from the TV show "The Love Boat" instead of a horror movie. Then all of a sudden without warning your hit with one of the bloodiest and grisliest scenes in motion picture history. The movie then goes forward to 2002 where a salvage crew headed by Captain Murphy, Gabriel Byrne, is approached by a pilot from the Canadian Arctic Patrol Jack Ferriman, Desmond Harrington. Capt. Murphy is told about a huge ship that Ferriman photographed in the Bering Sea recently and if he's interested in finding it.

Captain Murphy and Ferriman come to an agreement for a 90/10 split, 90% for Murphy and the crew of his boat the "Arctic Warrior" and 10% for Ferriman, with him coming along, in whatever they find on the ship. Reaching the ship Captain Murphy realizes that it's the long lost Italian Ocean Liner "Antonia Graza". As Murphy's crew enters the ship they slowly begin to sense that it's haunted as it slowly comes to life with it's long dead crew and passengers.