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Ghost Ship (2002) is a horror/thriller movie, directed by Steve Beck. The ship featured in the movie is based on a real life Italian cruise ship, the SS Andrea Doria, which sank in 1956 after colliding with another liner near Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Plot

Jack Ferriman, a Canadian Air Force pilot, spots a mysterious vessel running adrift in the Bering Sea. As it is in international waters, it can be claimed by whoever is able to bring it to a port. To do this he recruits a team of salvagers who are purported to be the best in the business. They set out on the Arctic Warrior, a tugboat. It turns out that the abandoned ship is the Antonia Graza, an Italian luxury liner that disappeared in May 1962, and was believed to be lost at sea.

However, once the crew begins towing it back to land, they soon discover that the ship wasn't as deserted as they first thought, with the crew believing that the ship is haunted.

The surprisingly tranquil opening scene is set in the 1960s, and contains a very memorable opening sequence, involving a steel cable and a group of dancers on the front well deck of the ship.

Death scene

The film sets on an Italian ocean liner in the early 60's where about fifty people are partying in a luxurious ball room. There is a really attractive Italian woman, Francesca, singing soothingly and the people are all happily dancing to her beautiful voice. Then, in a outer room we see a hand pull a switch that triggers a very thin wire cord to unravel from a hidden spool and lines itself across the side of the room. None of the dancers notices this, but we the audience knows that there is something up as the music is dulled and a slowmotion of the dance floor ensues.

Then, without sound, the wire cuts across the entire room like a metal laser. It gets across the room in milliseconds and we can see it covered in blood.

It takes a few moments for us (and the dancers) to grasp what has taken place. The dancers are now still (stuck in the same pose prior) with a look of fear and shock on their faces. Flowers and glasses that some of the people are holding fall in half and slowy the dancers come apart as well. Yes, the wire had cut through over fifty dancers simultaneously and all are dead. Many of the dancers remain alive for several seconds and some get to see their bottom half next to them.

The camera moves to the ceiling's point of view and the sole survivor, a little girl who was dancing with the Captain. Katie (whose name we later find out) was saved by the wire by the Captain as he ducked in time. When seeing the fate of the other dancers, she looks up at him and he looks back at her with sorrow. A line of blood slowly forms across his face and the top half of the Captian's head slides off on to the little girl. She screams and the film cuts into present day time.

Arguably, this scene has the most gore in the entire movie. Much of the rest of the movie has little gore at all, with a few specific shocking scenes.

Tagline: Sea Evil

Cast

Gabriel Byrne
— Captain Sean Murphy
Julianna Margulies
— Maureen Epps
Ron Eldard
— Dodge
Desmond Harrington
— Jack Ferriman
Isaiah Washington
— Greer
Alex Dimitriades
— Santos
Karl Urban
— Munder
Emily Browning
— Katie Hargrove
Francesca Rettondini — Francesca
Boris Brkic — Chief Steward
Bob Ruggiero — Captain (as Robert Ruggiero)
Iain Gardiner — Purser
Adam Bieshaar — First Officer
Cameron Watt — Second Officer
Jamie Giddens — Friendly Officer

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