31 Horror Movies in 31 Days 2.0: DEATH SHIP (1980)

This Canadian horror effort fails to bring the scary.

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[kingpin7224]

nuu ahh this movie wasx awsome fuck u voice

[watercooler]

@kingpin7224 What?

[watercooler]

I think it's universally accepted that the first 10 minutes of GHOST SHIP are great, then it sucks and sucks hard.

[Chickengirl005]

its so easy to just use Nazis as the bad guys for movies....but unless you actually see Nazi ghosts in this film what was the point of it being a Nazi ghost ship to begin with..guess it makes it more "evil" plus i'm pretty sure the Nazis really only used U-boats during the war....i think....

[watercooler]

You never see a Nazi or a Nazi ghost. You just hear them and see Nazi stuff around the boat.

[5150times]

DEATH SHIP!!!!....waooo, this movie "was" really GOOD in 1980, i mean, what else we had in that time? Maybe now is stupid but then was a pretty cool movie. Can anyone mention one GREAT horror movie from 1980, not 81 or 82 i mean 1980, really? Let me tell you that Death Ship was one of the best horror movies from that year. Now is lame and stupid but then was amazing!!...One campy horror flick! ( the shower scene was awesome...well i was 6)

[watercooler]

1980 brought us The Shining, Friday the 13th and The Changeling, the latter being an AMAZING movie.

[Mattteus]

guy on ground, pulley's still swinging, guy's still on the ground, pulley's still swinging, *sigh* guy STILL on the ground, pulley STILL swinging!

[smldfw]

my favorite part was when George Kennedy slipped on some Matchbox cars and fell overboard

[MrJohndoakes]

There's a British film called "Bloody New Year" (1987), very similar setup to "Death Ship" but instead it's a haunted island resort perpetually stuck in New Year's Eve. I bring it up because the ghosts do the same thing; instead of quietly killing people off, they start terrorizing them. There's too many derivatives of the "Evil Dead" movies, "Suspiria", and "The Shining" out there.

[TheDeaditeSlayer]

*sigh* You don't pick good Canadian horror movies by chance. I assure you. There are good ones out there!

[vanderzarth]

Bloodsucking Nazi-Ghost-Ships from hell?! Gimme a break! o.O

[daredevilpre]

It really does blow when you have a cool premise and waste it on a lame film.

[BlueberryHearts]

@watercooler

That scene made me afraid of cable wires forever. haha

Hey, I liked the ending. Guess that makes me lame. =)

[TheHorrorNetwork]

Wow! the iron broke!

[simonschole]

I thought this was a great movie, when the old lady eats the lollies, then she goes all zombie like, I remember it freaked me out!

[TheBaronGuy]

It would have been better if the hook went into the back of his head and he just swung back and forth throughout the movie.