“Sea Evil” … Probably one of the worst tag lines for a movie I have seen in recent memory. It’s a good thing this movie was much better than the marketing for it.
Ghost Ship is a story about a salvage company. Nothing to write home about there. However, while having drinks after a good day of work, they are approached by a man that has a proposition. He thinks he as seen a rather large ship a drift in the Bering Sea, and wants to salvage it. The crew reluctantly agrees and they set forth on a voyage that is far from a pleasure cruise. As soon as they set foot on the ship, weird things start to happen. Things go from bad to worse when the crew discovers a large stash of gold bricks aboard. Everyone starts having visions, people start dying, and there is an odd twist to it all.
Ghost Ship is like The Shining on a luxury liner. There’s a recovering alcoholic that is tempted to drink, a guy tricked by a really hot naked woman that is actually a disgusting corpse, and even a giant explosive ending. I loved The Shining and while Ghost Ship doesn’t do a whole lot to be original, it’s still a decent movie. Or course starring Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Marguiles, and Karl Urban doesn’t hurt.
Nothing really surprised me in either the plot or the way it unfolded however it was still a movie that held my interest long enough to see it through. It did however fall into the usual trappings that just about all horror movies do. I can’t really hold that against it though since it is apparently impossible in most cases to get away from those pitfalls.
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