GHOST SHIP

Scifind.co.uk rating - 3 - out of 5.

Reviewed By: Paul Mount

Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Desmond Harrington, Isiah Washington, too much CGI.,

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GHOST SHIP. It does what it says on the tin. Lovers of cheap fright-free horror flicks may go a bundle on this one but, like most modern horror movies – even the ironic, self-referential ones – it left me rather cold. It's not that it's bad, despite what the sniffy genre press may say. It's just that its whole setting and storyline evokes similar movies – good ones like DEEP RISING and staggeringly-bad ones like VIRUS. For God's sake, there's even an element of TITANIC in there.

1962. The passengers of a cruise liner are quite literally torn apart (a remarkably gruesome opening sequence artlessly reprised later in the film for those who didn't believe it first time). 40 years later and a grubby salvage crew led by Murphy (Gabriel Byrne slumming it) is hired to investigate sightings of a rusting wreck drifting thousands of miles off the shipping lines. Th