Ghost Ship

Ghost Ship (2002)

  • 13% of critics liked it
    (122 reviews)

  • 53% of users liked it
    (356,461 ratings)

A salvage team think they've made the find of a lifetime, until they discover there's more on board than meets the eye in this supernatural thriller. Led by Captain Sean Murphy (Gabriel Byrne), the crew of the tugboat Arctic Warrior have discovered a sideline far more lucrative than hauling… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
John Pogue, Mark Hanlon, Mark D. Hanlon
Genres
Horror
In Theaters
Oct 25, 2002 Wide
Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Trevor Johnston, Time Out

    The final reel plots a course smack between predictable and sheer idiocy.

  • Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter

    A lame script, featuring sorry dialogue and a senseless story, is more likely to provoke laughs than screams from its intended audience.

  • Mark Holcomb, Village Voice

    In a cut-and-paste job more transparent than ectoplasm, Ghost Ship screenwriters Mark Hanlon and John Pogue plunder every notable horror movie from the last 30 years.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    A dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going.

  • David Germain, Houston Chronicle

    A ticket to tedium, a horror movie so devoid of horror that mouths will open wide in yawns, without a scream to be heard.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Film C


    I dont know why but every time i watch this movie i enjoy it more and more! Its a good creepy horror that i dont think is a let down at all ! In my books it well worth a watch!

  • Directors C


    [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] Once the protaganists got on the titiluar ship there was one massive jump that spooked me, and I was convincing myself that maybe the film wasn't as bad as everyone was saying but to my displeasure it… More

  • Anthony L


    Not to be mistaken for Val Lewton 40's film, this version is a little bit more impressive but not necessarily much better. The idea itself is brilliant, the possibilities could have been endless - a franchise could have been born, but unfortunately it wasn't to be. After a… More

  • BG Movie Reviews 2


    Can I please get one thing straight - if a film has a jumpy moment near the beginning of a film, it HAS TO KEEP TO THAT JUMPY THEME! You get one jumpy scene with a clock, then that's it folks - Ghost Ship is flawed from the start. A scene where a boat full of people are killed by… More

  • Dead A


    This was not a scared-to-death type. Just another watchable horror movie. It had a good attention-catching starting but it got messed up eventually. I liked Emily Browning over here. She was cute.

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