| Original Score: C | Sep 7, 2011

Director Beck loses it, with techno-scored flashbacks (note: techno isn't scary) and blow-up-the-place gimmickry...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

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

| Jun 24, 2006

The setting is perfectly promising -- but this is the usual dumbed-down stuff, heading for the video bin.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2003

Where are all the icebergs when you need one?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 3, 2002

As a feature helmsman, [Beck's] brought us Thirteen Ghosts ... and Ghost Ship, both of which are absolutely atrocious films for any number of reasons.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 3, 2002

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

Full Review | Oct 30, 2002

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.

| Oct 29, 2002

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

Full Review | Oct 29, 2002

Meandering, sub-aquatic mess: It's so bad it's good, but only if you slide in on a freebie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 27, 2002

Audiences will feel more tricked than treated after sitting through this silly gorefest that wastes the talents of several good actors.

| Original Score: D | Oct 26, 2002

If you're in the right B-movie frame of mind, it may just scare the pants off you.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2002

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

Full Review | Oct 26, 2002

The plot doesn't always make sense, despite a thunderous explicatory montage halfway through, but as a fresh setting for terror shenanigans, this Ghost Ship is somewhere between B minus and the High Cs.

Full Review | Oct 25, 2002

Doesn't orchestrate the scares with much finesse.

| Oct 25, 2002

Launched with a few surprising touches and a disturbingly bloody prelude, horror pic collapses under the weight of its own dull conception and weak direction, dialogue and character portraits.

| Oct 25, 2002

The whole thing plays out with the drowsy heaviness of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 25, 2002

Truly a cinematic albatross, Ghost Ship should be enjoyed after sipping some Halloween grog.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 25, 2002

A fine, old-fashioned haunting on the high seas.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 25, 2002