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Ghost
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Ghost Ship
Directed by Steve Beck
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. From TMDB
174 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 1, 2026 · How this works
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Ghost Ship is a 2002 horror mystery thriller film, directed by Steve Beck, starring Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies and Desmond Harrington.
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- posts span Jul 24, 2014 to Nov 1, 2026
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60 of 174 · most liked firstI first saw Karl Urban in the movie Ghost Ship at a filthy $1 theater. I could’ve never anticipated how many times I’d be saying to myself “Hey, it’s the guy from Ghost Ship!” for the rest of my life.
positive · AI labelView post →Now I’m thinking about the movie Ghost Ship and the scene with the wire/cable 😬
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghost Ship (2002) The opening to this movie is still iconic. #horror #horrorsky #horrorcommunity #horrormovies
positive · AI labelView post →Ghost Ship ⁞2002 www.imdb.com/title/tt0288477 #NowWatching #filmsky #horrormovies ·a salvage crew discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea, and soon notices that its long-dead inhabitants may still be on board·
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Ghost Ship (2003)  Dir: Steve Beck A salvage crew discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea, and soon notices that its long-dead inhabitants may still be on board.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think the movie Ghost Ship has one of the best opening scenes. 🤩
positive · AI labelView post →Hi, I'm an unabashed fan of Ultimate Captain America and the movie Ghost Ship (2002).
positive · AI labelView post →Ghost Ship (2002) is proof of what happens when the opening scene is the best part of the movie and then proceeds to give us a haunted boat, spooky ghosts, and the most aggressively early-2000s horror vibes imaginable. still a fun time at sea tho 🚢👻
neutral · AI labelView post →The original Chucky is a pretty decent slasher movie with a very good voice performance by Dourif. House of Wax is an underrated gem with a terrific final battle. Ghost Ship blew its load in the opening scene, snoozer the rest of the way. Popped my Dario cherry. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday
negative · AI labelView post →You know.. I didn't really think about it until now, but the movie Ghost Ship (which I also just watched recently) is basically just Event Horizon in the ocean.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s Film Selection🍿🎥🎬: Going with a bit of horror tonight. 2002’s “Ghost Ship” starring Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies & Karl Urban. Somehow in 20+ years I never got around to seeing this. #TonightsFilmSelection
neutral · AI labelView post →What horror movie do you think everyone should watch at least once? Ghost Ship (2002) LISTEN! Is trash, ok. But it's GOOD trash! And I absolutely the concept! Haven't seen that done before nor after, in movies at least.
positive · AI labelView post →Once more, a delicious slice of top quality, low-budget, movie-making from Mark Robson, this tight 69 minute noir-like thriller is filled with quirky characters and dialogue. My ★★★★ review of The Ghost Ship on Letterboxd boxd.it/ak3g9T #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching "Ghost Ship" (2002) You know it's an early 2000s movie when Alt/Nu-Metal is featured! (Mudvayne in this case!)
neutral · AI labelView post →Horror kids might not recognize the director Vernon Sewell right away, but most of you have heard of Ghost Ship, right? The disappointing 00s film with the best opening sequence of all time was a remake of 1952's Ghost Ship, directed by none other than Vernon Sewell. #horrorwatch
neutral · AI labelView post →To some, it may be the worst movie ever, but there's gems - and gold! - to discover here, so we're excited to kick off a month of nautical horror with Lost at Sea-tember and Ghost Ship. Betrayal! Ghosts! Ships! This things has it all! Listen wherever you podcast or: www.glitterjaw.com/fear-coded
neutral · AI labelView post →I love watching the opening of a film and nothing else. That's why Ghost Ship is the best movie ever made
positive · AI labelView post →When I was a kid I was sitting on the couch eating gnocchis when the opening scene of Ghost Ship happened. I've never seen the rest of the movie but I thought about that scene for years and years afterwards.
neutral · AI labelView post →My dad was watching a movie I think is called Ghost Ship ? Which had a scene where a very strong wire was passed through a crowd and killed a lot of ppl at once + a scene where a little girl is kidnapped and murdered and it FUCKED ME UPPPPPL
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you hear that they are remaking Ghost Ship (2002), that’s awesome. I really liked that movie. The opening sequence was so fucked up and awesome
positive · AI labelView post →#LetterBoxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Filmsky 📽️ Uncharted - the most mid movie ever Monolith - interesting, tightly focused thriller but ultimately unsatisfying Ash - bisexual lighting, the movie! Mostly bad though Ghost Ship - Not terrible, but doesn’t measure up to Event Horizon
negative · AI labelView post →currently watching Ghost Ship on Tubi before i go to bed. Movie is whatever, but i do think it would've made a good live action Scooby Doo movie
neutral · AI labelView post →what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18? The year I turned 18 had a lot of good/bad ones but Ghost Ship is too fun to not pick
positive · AI labelView post →You know.. it’s kinda funny that two of my favorite horror movies to watch are Event Horizon and Ghost Ship. Both are basically the same exact movie. Maybe I just really like ‘random diverse group of people find a thing and thing kills them’ type movies lmao
positive · AI labelView post →Watching GHOST SHIP which is a mostly forgettable movie, outside of a killer opening sequence.
negative · AI labelView post →2026 #MovieChallenge #Filmsky W4/#6. Ghost Ship (2002) - A salvage crew finds a long-lost passenger ship floating in a remote region of the Bering Sea, and soon notices that its long-dead inhabitants may still be on board. Great opening scene, otherwise blah
negative · AI labelView post →Watching Ghost Ship on Tubi and I’d forgotten how they spent all of their budget on the greatest opening scene ever and had nothing left for the rest of the movie. Titanic eat your heart out.
positive · AI labelView post →Everyone talks about the great opening scene; no one talks about the rest. There's a reason for that. My ★★½ review of Ghost Ship (2002) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/griXtD #Horrorsky #DarkCastle #Hooptober
negative · AI labelView post →the riff in this song always makes me want to watch Ghost Ship, a movie that is well known for its beginning but is better known to me for using this song several times throughout the run time so yeah… I’m watching it Ghost Ship (2002) 📽️ #horrorsky
positive · AI labelView post →Watched 'Ghost Ship' last night. Honestly I've seen worse horror movies. Like yeah the opening part is really strong but the rest of the movie isn't horrible.
neutral · AI labelView post →The opening sequence of Ghost Ship. I have zero memory of the rest of the film. But that opening was BRUTAL.
positive · AI labelView post →oh my god, Somerville Theater is playing Ghost Ship next Friday, what a perfect trash horror movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghost Ship is my top one, but The Empty Man, The Ring, Scream, the Dawn of the Dead remake... The old version of The Stand, too, even though that's not really a "film." I could go on but I'll stop 😆
positive · AI labelView post →I have watched Ghost Ship so many times that I could basically recite it from memory. Still, Ghost Ship. ALT: 4 movie posters from the 2000s: Gothika, House of Wax, Thirteen Ghosts, and Ghost Ship
positive · AI labelView post →10 Horror Movies to get to know me 📺 1. Scream 2. Scream 4 3. Hell House LLC 4. REC 5. Rosemary’s Baby 6. The Blair Witch Project 7. MaXXXine 8. Ghost Ship 9. Incantation 10. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
neutral · AI labelView post →What a dumb movie you will stan until the end of time? I gotta go with Ghost Ship, because this movie is objectively awful in almost every way and yet it's also so good?? And its opening sequence alone saves the entire thing. Plus it's called Ghost Ship because there are GHOSTS on the SHIP.
positive · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge Day 19. A Ship or Ocean Liner in a movie Ghost Ship (2002) #Moviesky #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →A woman once came in to a record/DVD store I worked at asking if we had Titanic 2... After a bunch of back and forth questions and me explaining that the Titanic movie pretty much wrapped up any plot ends, we figured out she was looking for the movie Ghost Ship.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t watch enough horror to weigh in here, but this reminded me of how we left the beginning of Ghost Ship on because it was on cable after another movie we we watched, and we had no idea **THAT’S** how that movie starts. Traumatized, to say the least.
neutral · AI labelView post →GHOST SHIP would be an all time classic if the rest of the movie was as good as the opening.
neutral · AI labelView post →the opening titles to 2002 horror thriller Ghost Ship feel like a John Waters movie
positive · AI labelView post →i finally watched Ghost Ship it was such a great movie
positive · AI labelView post →Remembering classic film actor and The Ghost Ship star, Skelton Knaggs, on the anniversary of his death. . R.I.P. (1911 - 1955)
neutral · AI labelView post →I got sick from work, so now I'm watching the Gokaiger Flying Ghost Ship movie to cheer me up.
neutral · AI labelView post →Revisiting HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1999). Critically slammed on release, these OG Dark Castle films (which also include 13 GHOSTS and GHOST SHIP) have aged well, thanks to good kills, practical FX and fun OTT performances. Plus any film that opens with mad doctor Jeffrey Combs is a-okay. #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →And from The Ghost Ship, the wonderful Skelton Knaggs as the mute sailor whose interior monologues serve as the Greek chorus for the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Review; The Ghost Ship (1943) 4/5 ‘…some found it a disappointment because it’s not a strict horror genre piece, but that fault is on audience expectations rather than the film-maker...this riffs on some familiar horror tropes, but plays them out in a original way’ film-authority.com/2024/12/07/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →The rest of the film may not be great, but horror movie openings don’t get much better than the one in Ghost Ship
positive · AI labelView post →#TBT Weekend #BoxOffice Top 5 for Oct. 25 - Oct. 27, 2002 1. jackass: the movie - $22.76M / Week 1 2. The Ring - $18.49M / Week 2 3. Ghost Ship - $11.50M / Week 1 4. Sweet Home Alabama - $6.52M / Week 5 5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding- $6.21M / Week 28 #ThrowbackThursday
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghost Ship. Terrible movie, tho.
negative · AI labelView post →Thinking about the movie Ghost Ship right now
neutral · AI labelView post →“Ghost Ship” (2002) This movie has such a fantastic opening scene, then kind of falls flat and campy. However, it’s still an enjoyable watch.
neutral · AI labelView post →Since #Thir13enGhosts did not do great with it's gross income at the box office, Dark Castle Entertainment changed its direction from making remakes. Their 3rd one would be their original film, Ghost Ship. P.S. They always loved splitting people in half. 😉 #FFBMovieNight
neutral · AI labelView post →Hate that I didn’t finish Lazaret, but I hit the point where it just stopped being fun. Too redundant, a bit dull. BUT it did put me in the mood for an older spoopy movie: Ghost Ship! So we may watch that in the Discord tonight. Best horror film? Nah. Still love it? Absolutely. #vsky
positive · AI labelView post →The equivalent to a Ghost Ship Moment (i.e. the protagonist realises the conceit of the film is they're on a ghost ship: a ship with ghosts) is the Bluebeard Moment: the moment you, the viewer, realise you're watching yet another adaptation of Bluebeard. This usually happens ten minutes in
neutral · AI labelView post →A new FILM FREAKS FOREVER podcast! Ahoy mateys, grab ye spindle and jump on board as ye sea captains & film freaks, Mark Jordan Legan and Phoef Sutton take you out beyond the blue. Films like THE GHOST SHIP (1943)🎥 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
neutral · AI labelView post →#31DayHorrorChallenge #HorrorSky #FilmSky Night 18 'Ghost Ship' (2002) Like this film a lot. Always seems to fly under the radar but it's a solid ghost story 👻
positive · AI labelView post →For this under the radar in #31DaysOfHorror, I give you... Ghost Ship. A supernatural horror film that is genuinely freaky. Some of the death sequences will stick with you. A list cast rounds out a winner. #horror #scary #horrormovies #films #movies
positive · AI labelView post →ALIEN: EARTH. Episode 5: Ghost Ship Genuinely struggling. There's so much attention to detail recreating the original film in this episode. That said, there was such an egregious error last night purely to serve the plot that actually frustrated after all the previous care to detail. IYKYK
neutral · AI labelView post →It's midnight somewhere, which according to Ghost Ship Monthly is the best time to post this. There's also a bunch of creaky doors, but those are hard to film, record, and open all at once. So imagine them. Actual piece tomorrow! #soundtrack #sounddesign #ambience #composing #gamemusic #gameaudio
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