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2002 American movie

Ghost Ship
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Steve Beck
Written by	Mark Hanlon John Pogue
Produced past	Joel Silver Robert Zemeckis Gilbert Adler
Starring	Julianna Margulies Ron Eldard Desmond Harrington Isaiah Washington Gabriel Byrne
Cinematography	Gale Tattersall
Edited past	Roger Barton
Music by	John Frizzell
Production companies	Nighttime Castle Entertainment Village Roadshow Pictures NPV Entertainment
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	October 25, 2002 (2002-ten-25)
Running time	ninety minutes[1]
Countries	United states Australia
Language	English
Upkeep	$20 million[two]
Box office	$68.3 million[two]

Ghost Transport is a 2002 American supernatural horror flick directed by Steve Brook, and starring an ensemble cast featuring Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington and Karl Urban. The film follows a marine salvage coiffure in the Bering Ocean who observe a mysterious ocean liner that disappeared in 1962.

The movie was shot in Queensland, Commonwealth of australia and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and released theatrically in Northward America on October 25, 2002. It received largely negative reviews from critics. It earned in backlog of $68 million in box office receipts worldwide.

Despite its title, the film is unrelated to the 1952 film of the same proper noun.

Plot [edit]

In 1962, aboard the Italian body of water liner MS Antonia Graza, passengers dance to the song "Senza Fine" sung by Francesca. A young girl, Katie, sits alone until the ship'south captain offers to dance with her. A paw lifts a lever that unravels a wire cord from a spool. The spool snaps and the wire whips beyond the dance floor, bisecting the passengers and coiffure. Katie is spared as the wire passes over her caput.

40 years later, a salvage crew — Captain Sean Murphy, Maureen Epps, Greer, Contrivance, Munder, and Santos — is approached by Jack Ferriman, a weather service airplane pilot who spotted a vessel adrift in the Bering Sea. It can exist claimed by whoever brings information technology to port. The crew sets out on the Arctic Warrior, their salvage tug. The transport is the Antonia Graza, missing since 1962. Boarding the abased liner, the salvagers notice nine boxes, each containing 20-eight 100-oz gold bars (0.079 tonnes).

Afterwards a series of supernatural events, the grouping decides to retreat with the gilded, just an invisible strength sabotages the Arctic Warrior. The tugboat explodes, killing Santos.

With no other option, the group begins repairing the Graza. Greer encounters the apparition of Francesca, who seduces him into cheating on his fiancée, then leads him to fall down an elevator shaft, killing him. Murphy enters the helm'south motel and encounters his ghost. The captain explains that they recovered the golden from a sinking cruise ship, the Lorelei, along with a sole survivor. Murphy is shown a picture show of the survivor, whom he recognizes. He rushes to tell the others but hallucinates and sees anybody as the ghost of the burned Santos, who provokes him into a murderous rage. The others think Murphy has gone mad and lock him in the tuckered fish tank; Epps later finds him drowned.

Epps meets Katie'south ghost, who reveals what happened on the Graza. The sole survivor of the Lorelei convinced many of the Graza's crew to murder their passengers, as well as the captain and officers, for the gold. Later murdering the passengers, the crew turned on each other. Francesca killed the officer who survived. The mastermind behind the massacre killed Francesca by releasing a claw which slashed into her cervix and hooked her. He then branded her palm with a claw-shaped symbol using only his hands. The man is revealed as Jack Ferriman, the demonic spirit of a deceased sinner tasked with provoking people to sin, and then killing them and bringing their souls to Hell. Epps deduces that Ferriman lured the save team to the Graza to repair it and decides to sink it to thwart his program. Munder is crushed to death under the transport's gears while scuba diving in the flooded engine room. Epps tells Dodge to go on Jack on the ship'south bridge while she sets explosives. Ferriman taunts Dodge, mocking him every bit a coward for never interim on his feelings for Epps, and so charges him. Contrivance shoots Ferriman with a shotgun and believes Ferriman to be dead.

Epps is setting explosives when she is confronted by Dodge. He tells her he killed Ferriman and that they can salvage the gold to showtime a life together, simply Epps asks why Dodge has not asked her where Munder is. "Contrivance" morphs into Ferriman, who killed Dodge. Ferriman plans to use the Graza equally a trap to continue collecting souls. As long equally the Graza is kept afloat, the souls of everyone who died aboard the ship will be dragged downwards when Ferriman fills his quota and returns to Hell. He offers to spare Epps's life in exchange for her not interfering, but she refuses. Later on a brief fight, Epps detonates the explosives. Ferriman is blown to pieces in the explosion, while Katie helps Epps escape the sinking ship. Katie and the other trapped souls are freed.

Epps is found by a cruise ship and returned to country. Equally she is loaded into an ambulance, she sees the crates of gold being loaded onto the cruise ship by people who resemble her fellow Arctic Warrior crew, overseen past a resurrected Ferriman, who glares at her and carries on; she screams every bit the ambulance doors shut.

Cast [edit]

• Gabriel Byrne as Sean Spud
• Julianna Margulies as Maureen Epps
• Ron Eldard as Dodge
• Desmond Harrington as Jack Ferriman
• Isaiah Washington as Greer
• Alex Dimitriades equally Santos
• Karl Urban every bit Munder
• Emily Browning as Katie Harwood
• Francesca Rettondini as Francesca
• Monica Mancini as the singing voice of Francesca
• Boris Brkic every bit Chief Steward
• Bob Ruggiero equally Captain Ruggiero
• Iain Gardiner every bit Purser

Production [edit]

Writing [edit]

Ghost Ship kickoff emerged in Jan 1996 as Bubble, a spec script by Mark Hanlon.^[3] This script was a relatively anemic psychological thriller rather than a brilliant supernatural horror film. Most notably, much of the pic's gore is absent-minded from the screenplay. The film would have focused on four members of a save crew who end up stranded aboard the ghost vessel they are scuttling (the titular Bubble). Over the course of one dark, each fellow member — due to panic, cabin fever, or supernatural forces — goes insane and plots to kill the other three.

In Bubble,^[3] White potato is the "main killer" and the ship runs onto some rocks and begins to sink. Murphy and Epps survive until nearly the end only equally the ship sinks, Spud goes off to retrieve gold ingots. The weight of the gold and the fourth dimension he loses in getting to information technology leads to Irish potato's demise. As in the flick, Katie helps Epps escape. Over fourth dimension, the script underwent rewrites, and the psychological aspects of the script were all jettisoned in favor of making the moving picture a slasher. It has been suggested that "The cast signed on based on this (original) draft ... and were sadly disappointed to observe the script had been radically inverse by Joel Silver and assembly when they arrived to begin shooting."^[4] Co-ordinate to Beck in the newly released directors commentary he mentioned that the September 11 attacks in the United states inspired the studio to brand the moving picture a more definitive fight between good and evil instead of trying to be nuanced nigh the corruption of human being.

Scale modeling [edit]

The idea of filming on a real ship was continually brought up, and a few ships were scouted for the possibility of beingness used as the Antonia Graza. "The temptation was always to shoot on the real affair," Brook says. "Nosotros really visited a few [ships] , but every time we thought, 'How are we ever going to get a dolly through this alley? Or down this hallway?' When you're shooting you often have to dial through a wall in order to get the shot you demand, and on a steel ship that'south impossible. We knew the existent matter would be far too limiting."^[5]

Instead of using an actual send, Australian visual effects company Photon VFX, who prior had worked on the 2002 film Scooby-Doo, was hired as the principal contractor for all visual furnishings. This immune Warner Bros. to have full advantage of the broad spectrum of services offered including CGI, animation, miniatures, live-action, prosthetics, pyrotechnics and aeriform, underwater and motion control cinematography.

The SS Andrea Doria served as the inspiration for the film's ship the Antonia Graza. Photon created a 35-foot 1/20th scale model of the transport, allowing the exterior shots to exist a combination of CGI, miniature, and alive-activity footage.^[6] For certain exterior shots a miniature but wouldn't work, so instead a full-scale forecastle and bow were constructed. "It was a full-scale replica, then it wouldn't have fit into a studio," Walker explains. "It also needed to have sky backgrounds surrounding it, so we built it on a hill to achieve the desired effect."

Filming [edit]

Principal photography for Ghost Ship began in January 2002 on location in Queensland, Commonwealth of australia.^[vii]

The majority of the film was shot on sets built on a sound stage^[eight] at Hamlet Roadshow Studios.^{[ citation needed ]} The simply ship used in Ghost Ship was the tugboat Arctic Warrior ^[nine] used by the master protagonists.^[eight] While filming the exterior shots on the tugboat, a feeding frenzy occurred in the h2o bringing 800-thou sharks inside 50 yards of the production and its stars.^[10]

In February 2002, the 35-foot-long model of the Antonia Graza, made by Photon VFX, was taken out to Moreton Bay to flick establishing shots of the ship adrift.^[eleven] In early February, construction of the bow and foredeck of the full-calibration replica of the Antonia Graza was getting underway at Newstead, Queensland. Construction, which lasted roughly six weeks, drew many curious residents and tourists that were hoping to get a look at the nearly 100-foot-tall (30m) massive hull that dominated the surrounding expanse.^[12]

The film was also shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Vancouver.

Furnishings [edit]

Dale Duguid, the artistic director of Photon VFX, wanted to push the boundaries. There was a lot of pride for Ghost Transport since it was the largest visual upshot contract completely washed in Australia to date. Photon VFX filmed a existent bounding main-liner at bounding main off the declension of New South Wales, digitally removed the ship, just kept all of its movements, leaving nothing only sea and sky. Then the tracking data was taken and in-put into a robotic filming system, which then filmed the 35-foot-long (10 m) miniature ship. The digital furnishings team then added 300 digital extras, in addition to digital h2o and fume to make the scene announced as realistic as possible.

The dramatic scene, which features the derelict ballroom reverting to its one-time grand self, posed a problem for the effects crew. "That was the almost difficult shot I've ever worked on," says Duguid. Filming took place on two different sets, the first existence the decrepit ballroom which had been afloat for forty years. The 2nd set was the luxurious ballroom, used in the opening scene with happy party guests having a m time. "We were filming on a derelict ready and a new prepare, and we shot eighty layers of that scene on a circular motion command track, each time with different things going on. Some we shot frontward, some backwards, some fast, some dull."^[13]

Music and soundtrack [edit]

Ghost Ship Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Movie score past John Frizzell
Released	Nov five, 2002
Genre	Soundtrack Film score
Length	73:33
Characterization	Varèse Sarabande

The soundtrack album for Ghost Transport was equanimous by John Frizzell. The score is described by Filmtracks.com as "tap [dancing] around some old genre cliches while diving head first into others, producing a score with drama, fright, and a slight hint of elegance at times as well."^[14] The anthology was released on the Varèse Sarabande label on 5 November 2002.^[fifteen]

The songs "Not Falling" by Mudvayne and "Senza Fine" sung by Monica Mancini did non arrive onto the soundtrack despite beingness featured in the flick.

Release [edit]

Ghost Ship was theatrically released on October 25, 2002.^[2] The theatrical affiche for Ghost Ship is similar to that of the 1980 film Decease Ship.^{[16] [17]}

Promotion [edit]

Warner Bros. in association with Hollywood.com sponsored a sweepstakes to promote the film beginning Oct 18, 2002, with the final drawing on November ane. Applicants could enter for the chance to win the 1000 prize dubbed the "Ghost Send Prize Parcel" of promotional merchandise consisting of one Ghost Ship baseball hat, 1 spinning skull mug, ane Ghost Ship shower CD player, and the Ghost Ship soundtrack. The runners up would receive just the baseball hat and mug.^[eighteen]

Home media [edit]

On March 28, 2003, Warner Habitation Video (currently known as Warner Bros. Abode Entertainment) released the film to VHS and DVD.^[xix] On October 26, 2018, Official Charts Company revealed Ghost Send was the United Kingdom'due south 26th best-selling horror DVD/Blu-ray of all time.^[20]

A collectors edition of Ghost Transport was produced by Shout! Mill and released on Blu-ray September 29, 2020. It featured a new interview with actor Isaiah Washington, and a new Audio commentary by director Steve Beck.^[21]

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

With a reported budget of $20 1000000, the motion-picture show opened at no. 3 at the box office with $xi,503,423 in ticket sales equally Jackass: The Movie dominated the cinema releases. The film grossed $30,113,491 in Due north America and had an international gross of $38,236,393, earning a total of $68,349,884.^[2]

Critical response [edit]

Co-ordinate to net review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Ghost Transport has a 16% approving rating based on 129 reviews. The critical consensus states that "With a plot as creaky as the gunkhole, Ghost Ship fails to deliver the scares".^[22] Similarly, Metacritic gives the flick a score of 28/100 based on 25 reviews and rates the film equally "generally unfavorable".^[23] Audiences polled past CinemaScore gave the pic an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.^[24]

The film received varied critical reception in the Usa: The New York Times 'due south Stephen Holden criticized its preoccupation with special effects, and while praising its establishment of mood, ultimately deemed it "an incoherent supernatural thriller that would like to think of itself equally a Halloween-ready horror fusion of The Perfect Storm and Titanic." ^[25] Carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle praised the operation of Isaiah Washington, but deemed the film "a stupid, derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense. Granted, in that location are only so many ways to kill people in these pictures, but lingering on a woman on a meat hook doesn't make a movie scary. Information technology makes it gross."^[26]

Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times was critical of the script's lack of graphic symbol development, writing: "With its minor shivers and modest Thousand Guignol showmanship, Ghost Ship is the sort of flimflam that would have filled 8 paneled pages in the bully horror comic book Tales From the Crypt or consumed about 30 minutes on the latter-twenty-four hour period HBO spinoff."^[27] Roger Ebert said the motion picture is "better than you expect but not every bit expert as you lot hope,"^[28] while Joel Siegel of Good Morning America awarded the motion picture a B− rating, writing: "After a very brutal and encarmine beginning, Ghost Ship plays similar an former-fashioned ghost story, the kind that kept y'all awake when you were a kid."^[29] In a review published past IGN, the reviewer awarded the film one-and-a-one-half out of five stars, stating: "as a horror fan, I applaud what Silver and Zemeckis are trying to do with Dark Castle, Ghost Send just isn't a cruise worth taking."^[30]

Upon the film'south release in the U.k. in January 2003, The Guardian 's Peter Bradshaw praised its set design, only added "it's the aforementioned sometime tired stuff we've seen a hundred times before in various permutations."^[31] Jamie Russell of the BBC awarded the moving picture 2 out of five stars, just praised its opening sequence.^[32]

While critical response to Ghost Ship was varied upon its theatrical release, many gimmicky critics and flick fans alike praised its elaborate opening murder sequence.^{[33] [34] [32]} Website Bloody Icky listed Ghost Ship 's opening massacre every bit #13 in their list of "The Top 13 Kills in Horror Movie History,"^[35] while ComingSoon named the scene one of the greatest opening sequences in horror film history.^[36]

Accolades [edit]

Run into also [edit]

• List of ghost films

References [edit]

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4. ^ First draft screenplay of "Ghost Transport" (formerly "Chimera" ).
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External links [edit]

• Official website
• Ghost Ship at IMDb
• Ghost Transport at AllMovie
• Ghost Ship at Box Function Mojo
• Ghost Send at Rotten Tomatoes
• Ghost Transport at Metacritic
• Screenplay of Ghost Ship at imsdb.com/scripts

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