Ghost Ship (2002)

When a pilot recruits the team to investigate a mysterious vessel he has spotted floating adrift off the coast of Alaska in a remote region of the Bering Sea, they discover the remains of the fabled Antonia Graza, an Italian luxury liner with a dark secret, thought lost at sea for more than 40 years. It's a hell of a find, the salvage rights alone could be worth a fortune, and by the law of the sea, any vessel discovered in international waters can be claimed by whomever is fortunate enough to find her and skilled enough to haul her back to port. But once onboard the eerie, cavernous ship, the crew of the Arctic Warrior discovers that the decaying vessel is anything but deserted. It's home to something more deadly and horrific than anything they've encountered in all their years at sea. Hilarity ensues.

Trivia: The design for the "Antonia Graza" was modeled after the "Andrea Doria", a real-life Italian cruise ship that also met a tragic fate: it sank in the 1950s after colliding with another liner. The photo that the captain shows Murphy of his ship rescuing the sinking ship, is actually a photo of the sinking "Andrea Doria", tilting badly to one side before finally going down. The scene on the foredeck where the Captain and the passengers were dancing, and the scene in the ballroom, was a common tradition at the time near the end of a trans-Atlantic voyage. These were usually held as the ship approached the end of the trip, near the coast and these Balls were called the "Captain's Ball". The ghost captain tells Gabriel Byrne's character that the Antonio Graza rescued a ship called the Lorelei. Rescuing this ship is what eventually led to the destruction of the Antonio Graza and the death of all its passengers. "Die Lorelei" is a German poem about a siren-type woman who lures boats to ruin and sailors to their deaths.

This review is one of the ones that Impman won for guessing correctly on the Alphabet Project's "C" movie, Cannibal Women In The Avacado Jungle Of Death. This movie has pretty much everything you would want in a psychological horror thriller adventure. You have the remote location with little or no escape available (they are on a derelict ship floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean). They have the haunted house (or in this case the ship, which really takes on a certain life of it's own, it is very dynamic with a lot of wet surfaces that reflect light {including ripples of light} that give in a living breathing feel). They have the innocent victim (a little girl who died on the ship in 1962 with the rest of the passengers and crew). They have the evil supernatural being who is a soul collector and is keeping the ship afloat so he can imprison the other souls. There are explosions and dead bodies and even a scene where a razor thin wire slices through 40 dancers like hot butter through a knife (or vice versa). By the way, Mythbusters busted the myth that a person can be sliced in half by a wire. Yeah Mythbusters! Kim, you should see this movie because the Antonio Graza is Italian, so most of the ghosts speak Italian and the hot siren ghost actually sings in Italian. I think I have decided that horror movies are okay (I have seemed to like the ones I have seen) so it is the subgenre of slasher movies that I hate. Anyway, Thanks Impman, it was a good movie. The other movie you selected is on it's way (It's a B movie classic, or at least I have been told that).