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| 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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