GHOST
SHIP
With
Gabriel
Byrne,
Juliana
Marguiles,
Isaiah
Washington
Directed
by
Steve
Beck
If
you
can
have
a
haunted
house
(take
your
pick),
haunted
car
(Christine),
haunted
space
ship
(Event
Horizon),
why
not
a
cruise
ship?
That's
obviously
what
Robert
Zemeckis
and
Joel
Silver
thought
when
they
backed
this
spooky
tale
to
be
preserved
on
celluloid
for
posterity…or
to
gratify
cheap-scare
freaks
at
least.
A
salvage
team
gets
handed
the
find
of
a
lifetime.
A
pleasure
boat
missing
for
decades.
Nobody
has
a
claim
on
the
multi-million
salvage,
bringing
it
down
to
finders-keepers.
As
the
title
suggests
and
the
gruesome
opening
sequence
show,
the
passengers
did
not
go
voluntarily,
or
neatly.
Apparitions
and
freaky
events
slowly
start
to
cast
doubt
on
the
whole
scheme
as
the
past
events
also
start
to
unfold.
Spooky
scares
and
cheap
tricks
are
thrown
in
equal
measures.
There
are
many
red
herrings
as
well
as
very
obvious
motifs
in
this
thrill
ride
which
uses
elements
of
personal
weaknesses
and
fears
being
preyed
upon
like
in
a
Red
Dwarf
TV
episode
and
the
aforementioned
Event
Horizon.
Ghost
Ship
is
fleeting
fun
that
doesn't
require
much
more
that
sitting
back
and
munching
your
popcorn.
3
/
C
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PB
1
2
3
4
5
6
A
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B
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C