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  • 2002
  • R
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2002
  • R
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary In a remote region of the Bering Sea, a salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger liner lost for more than 40 years. Once onboard, the crew must uncover the truth about the ship's past and unlock the mystery that threatens their very survival. (Warner Bros.)

Directed By: Steve Beck

Written By: Mark Hanlon, John Pogue

  • 2002
  • R
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2002
  • R
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 31 m

Ghost Ship

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
28
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 299 User Ratings
7.6
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Summary In a remote region of the Bering Sea, a salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger liner lost for more than 40 years. Once onboard, the crew must uncover the truth about the ship's past and unlock the mystery that threatens their very survival. (Warner Bros.)

Directed By: Steve Beck

Written By: Mark Hanlon, John Pogue

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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32% Mixed
8 Reviews
68% Negative
17 Reviews

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60
The plot doesn't always make sense, despite a thunderous explicatory montage halfway through, but as a fresh setting for terror shenanigans.
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50
Not scary enough for its own good, Beck's Ghost Ship ends up stuck, enjoyably enough, between the Scylla of schlock and the Charybdis of camp.
By Gregory Weinkauf FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 299 User Ratings
7.6
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18% Mixed
53 Ratings
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Generally Favorable Based on 299 User Ratings
7.6
68% Positive
203 Ratings
18% Mixed
53 Ratings
14% Negative
43 Ratings

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Aversion68
May 2, 2021
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Defame
Apr 28, 2021
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38
Although there are several truly jolting scares, there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
30
Likely to appeal only to undiscriminating nudity-- and gore -- starved adolescents.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
30
So preoccupied with delivering its effects that it doesn't bother to make sense of its story.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
25
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.
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10
See evil. See evil run. Run, evil, run all the way to cable television purgatory.
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Uvula
Apr 11, 2021
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6
DanielGrimes94
Sep 6, 2023
Very lacky on effective scares , but it manages to capture your Attention by the impressive set design, cliché but well flesh out characters, and a very mean spirit Story....
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6
Sosmooth1982
Dec 24, 2022
The beginning and the end of this movie is really the only good thing about the movie. Everything else is just a crew chasing around a ghost girl trying to figure out what happened to her. Pretty boring.
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3
Annoymous1
Jan 19, 2013
Terrible ending, No scares, Plain blood and **** a cluttered mess with and no enjoyment. The only good thing that made me put 3 instead of 0 was the typically same but worser Titanic.
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eTurkey
Apr 22, 2012
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Production Company Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, Dark Castle Entertainment, Ghost Ship Films Pty. Ltd., Village Roadshow Pictures
Release Date Oct 25, 2002
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating R
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Tagline Sea Evil
Website http://www.ghostshipmovie.com/
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Awards

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