Really Surprised!

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A mysterious ship sinks an ocean cruiser and the survivors of the crash board the ship which is haunted by....something. The captain of the cruiser is possessed and deaths start to occur. It sounds good but it is not thrilling or interesting. The ship turns out to be a Nazi one where torture had occurred but it is not clear why the ship is haunted, who haunts it and why. Rather confusing really.Stalwart actors like George Kennedy, Richard Crenna Kate Reid, and Nick Mancuso are defeated by underwritten roles. The best actor is the ship itself which looks menacing at rest or in motion. It was directed by Alvin Rakoff who never made a good film or ever made a bad one.

This low budget UK/Canadian collaboration was based on a story entitled Blood Star by one Jack Hill – yep, the exploitation king who made SWITCHBLADE SISTERS amongst other drive-in flicks in the 1970s. In essence, it's a traditional haunted ship story, but on watching the viewer realises they're exposed to a minor horror classic – a film that is a hundred times better than the Gabriel Byrne-starrer GHOST SHIP made twenty years later.Events in the film have a genuine nightmarish feel to them and the evocative camera-work recalls THE EVIL DEAD in a good way, although the actual bloodshed is toned down a lot here. The cast is good value for money, with some amusing child actors pretending to be frightened, and plenty of unconventional folk – Saul Rubinek's hook-swinging cameo is value for money in itself. Nick Mancuso (UNDER SIEGE) is the youthful male hero, but the real strength of the casting lies in the presence of two movie greats in major roles. First up is George Kennedy; as the Captain who becomes possessed by evil spirits, his role is a far cry from his more familiar bumbling comedic turns in the likes of the NAKED GUN flicks. Secondly, we get the late, great Richard Crenna (FIRST BLOOD) as the real hero of the movie; this bearded first mate undergoes all manner of disturbance and danger and, as always with Crenna, he's a delight whenever he's on screen: stern and dependable, yet very human.Director Alvin Rakoff really knows what he's doing and he creates some unbelievably disturbing scenes without resorting to cheap bloodshed. The projector scene, in which the Nazi rallies continue to play out despite the machine being broken, is one such moment. There's a great use of sound effects (German shouting) and weird music that never failed to send a shiver down my spine. DEATH SHIP is something really special, a truly effective horror yarn that stands as a highlight of its era.

C'mon I mean how could you not love this movie? It delivers exactly what the title promises, it's a ghostly ship that just prowls around the Atlantic in aimless circles arbitrarily ramming other ships and trapping any survivors in a twisted maze of rust, fascism, and horror. It's the kind of movie you randomly stumble across on TV a stony Saturday afternoon when your like 15 and you and your friends are still laughing about it a full hour after it's over. Super low budge, bad acting, story gets a lil' patchy at times, basically so bad it's good. A movie really dose not need to be Oscar material to be entertaining. For what it is it's actually a great movie with some really scary scenes. The Nazi element in the story line makes for some really creepy stuff. If you like simplistic, cheesy 80's horror movies like Maximum Overdrive or Return of the Living Dead WATCH THIS MOVIE!

Creepy and exciting movie about some shipwrecked lead to remains of a deserted ghost ship that's been missing for more than 40 years , since WWII, it is packed with good actors and slick direction . The film concerns about a passenger luxury liner is crashed by a strange freighter . The castaways enter into the rare German ship and after encounter themselves trapped and they figure out that things are not as they should. A frightening vessel lost from the 40s at a remote region nowadays is floating drift.The mysterious Nazi vessel is lost at sea for more than 50 years.But one time aboard the cavernous, eerie ship, the group encounter that the decaying Oceaner freighter is anything but deserted. Boarding the ship results to be a big mistake since the tragedy that overtook the lives of crew and captain lingers and starts to affect the present passengers. When a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the crew becomes caught in a web of ghastly deeds ,they soon learn is inhabited by haunting previous crew.The picture contains scary suspense, thrills, terror,tension, chills and is quite entertaining. Deserted ship is portrayed as a complete riddle with weird events,screams and grisly horrifying happenings. The movie paid attention to building up a terrifying atmosphere instead of violent and stabbing killing spree.The action takes completely place into a rusty ship wreck .The argument isn't original but it's being gradually revealed with nutty enchantment , such as ¨The shinning(Kubrick)¨ style and it attracts viewer's attention. The picture is starred by fine actors, doing some correct performances, as Richard Crenna, George Kennedy, Sally Ann Howes and nice secondary role for Saul Rubinek .If you're enthusiastic of the mystery tales and B films, so you'll encounter this picture to be agreeable. If your interest lies on a more cerebral terror movie,then I highly recommend you skip this one.This eerie movie is rightly directed by Alvin Rakoff during the 8os, he is a craftsman Canadian director as cinema as television . The film is recommended for all horror lovers which will find many nice eerie shots though not very logical but still their appetite for gruesome scenes will be satisfied.Other adaptation about 'ghost ships' are the following : For television titled ¨The triangle(2001)¨by Lewis Teague with Luke Perry, Dan Cortese , Olivia Dábo and Polly Shannon, the high budgeted by Joel Silver titled ¨ The Ghost ship (2002) ¨ by Steven Beck with Julianne Margules, Ron Eldard and Gabriel Byrne and for Sci-Fi channel titled ¨The ghost voyage¨ with Antonio Sabato and Gary-Hiroyaki Tagawa.