{"id":34584,"date":"2021-02-22T22:38:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T03:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=34584"},"modified":"2021-02-22T22:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T03:43:14","slug":"ghost-ship-2002-collectors-edition-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/22\/ghost-ship-2002-collectors-edition-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Ship (2002): Collector\u2019s Edition [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You could almost blame \u201cGhost Ship\u201d of false advertising, as it\u2019s a movie that almost promises to deliver a new kind of ghost movie, and then backs out after the prologue. Steve Beck\u2019s horror movie begins on a very gnarly note with easily one of the most memorable horror movie openings of all time. Beck directs this hook brilliantly and you\u2019d feel bad for not seeing the entire movie through. Once Steve Beck\u2019s ghost film progresses, it\u2019s sadly more of the same.<\/p>\n

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In a remote region of the Bering Sea, a boat salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger liner thought lost for more than forty years. 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.<\/p>\n

Steve Beck\u2019s horror film is a part of the Dark Castle banner, and it follows within that formula of generally looking like every film under the studio. The \u201cDark Castle\u201d brand had a penchant for creating movies that all felt generally moody and atmospheric with heavy, varying tones of blue used to establish inherent terror. \u201cGhost Ship\u201d is milquetoast ghost fodder; it\u2019s basically cut from the same cloth but never quite delivers on any kind of tension or terror. The ship is a conscious being (So\u2014did the deaths create the curse or did the curse create the deaths?), it separates each member of the salvage crew, and knocks them off one by one in ironic or bizarre methods.<\/p>\n

Lather, rinse, repeat. It\u2019s all everything we\u2019ve seen from TV movies, and TV mini-series, and exploitation movies from the seventies with Donald Pleasance or John Rhys Davis on some cheap late night cable fodder. It\u2019s just more of what we\u2019ve seen a thousand times before except with great character actors thrown in to the mix like Julianna Margolis, Gabriel Byrne, and Karl Urban, respectively. You\u2019re so much better off with \u201cThir13en Ghosts.\u201d At least that one is filled with pay offs.<\/p>\n

Included on the Collector\u2019s Edition<\/strong>, there\u2019s a digital audio commentary wit director Steve Beck, the six minutes \u201cThis Isn\u2019t Real: Isaiah Washington On Ghost Ship features Washington discussing how his role with Clint Eastwood helped his casting for the role. \u201cEvery Body on Board: Makeup Effect Supervisor Jason Baird on Ghost Ship\u201d is a six minutes discussion with Reid who talks about going from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace to The Matrix sequels to working on Ghost Ship.<\/p>\n

Baird goes over the opening sequence, the challenges of shooting with so much water, making silicon replica bodies and the hanging sequence. \u201cDark Castle at Sea: Producer Gil Adler on Ghost Ship\u201d is a seven minutes talk with Steve Beck who wanted to make something actually scary and doing something with more of an ensemble cast rather than any individual. \u201cMax on Set: Ghost Ship\u201d is a fifteen minutes previously unreleased EPK for the film from Cinemax Movie Channel. It features interviews from cast, crew and producers. Finally there are looks at Visual Effects, A Closer Look at the Gore, Disguising the \u201cGhost Ship,\u201d Secrets of the Antonia Graza, and the theatrical trailer. Finally, there\u2019s the music video \u201cNot Falling\u201d by band Mudvayne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You could almost blame \u201cGhost Ship\u201d of false advertising, as it\u2019s a movie that almost promises to deliver a new kind of ghost movie, and then backs out after the prologue. Steve Beck\u2019s horror movie begins on a very gnarly note with easily one of the most memorable horror movie openings of all time. Beck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[349,385,409,477,703,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-34584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","tag-fantasy","tag-g","tag-ghosts","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34586,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34584\/revisions\/34586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}