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Ghost Ship
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
2002 · Directed by Steve Beck · 91 min · Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 20 frames
Tagline
Sea evil.
Plot
On May 21, 1962, off the Labrador Coast, passengers aboard the Italian ocean liner MS Antonia Graza dance as a lounge singer named Francesca performs the song "Senza fine". A little girl named Katie Harwood sits alone until the ship's captain offers to dance with her. An unidentified passenger lifts a lever to tighten a metal cable which then snaps and rips through the stage and dance floor, bisecting everyone except Katie, who screams in horror.
Forty years later, a salvage crew—Captain Sean Murphy, Maureen Epps, Greer, Dodge, Munder, and Santos—are approached by weather service pilot Jack Ferriman, who spotted a vessel adrift in the Bering Strait. It can be claimed by whoever brings it to port. They set out on their salvage tug, Arctic Warrior, and discover that the ship is Antonia Graza. They find nine wooden boxes on the abandoned ship, each containing 28 gold bars. After a series of supernatural events and with the knowledge that the ship is sinking, the salvagers decide to leave with the gold. An invisible force sabotages Arctic Warrior with a gas leak and causes it to explode, killing Santos.
The salvagers realize that their only means of escape is repairing Antonia Graza and returning to port. Greer encounters the ghost of Francesca, who seduces him into cheating on his fiancée and then tricks him into falling to his death down an elevator shaft. Sean enters the captain's cabin and encounters the ghost of the captain, who explains that the crew of Antonia Graza had also recovered gold from a sinking cruise ship, Lorelei, along with a sole survivor. Sean is shown a picture of the survivor, whom he recognizes. He rushes to tell the others but a hallucination makes him see Maureen as the ghost of Santos, who provokes him into a fit of rage. The others think Sean has gone mad and lock him in the drained fish tank, where Maureen later finds him drowned after an invisible force opened a valve, filling the tank with water.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Mark Hanlon, John Pogue
- Cinematography: Gale Tattersall
- Edited by: Roger Barton, Rebecca Weigold
- Music: John Frizzell
- Production design: Graham "Grace" Walker
- Produced by: Gilbert Adler, Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis
Cast
- Gabriel Byrne as Captain Sean Murphy
- Julianna Margulies as Maureen Epps
- Desmond Harrington as Jack Ferriman
- Ron Eldard as Dodge
- Isaiah Washington as Greer
- Karl Urban as Munder
- Emily Browning as Katie Harwood
- Francesca Rettondini as Francesca
- Bob Ruggiero as Captain
- Jamie Giddens as Friendly Officer
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Italian, Spanish
- Studios: Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, Dark Castle Entertainment, Ghost Ship Films Pty. Ltd.
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Box office: $71,142,361
- Themes: treasure, cruise, halloween, pilot, ghost ship, gore, tugboat, salvage, haunted, supernatural horror
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