Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

unbrokenmetal 'Death Ship' tells the story of a handful of survivors from a cruise ship who enter an abandoned old vessel, the same that sunk their cruise ship with a purposeful collision. Possessed by evil spirits (formerly run by a crew of 1940s Nazis), the ship tries to kill them one by one.'Death Ship' was made with little money - for example the big crash scene is obviously borrowed from another movie with no regard to continuity, as the officers suddenly wear black uniforms instead of white ones. But for the modest budget, it is very effective. The editing helps a lot, because the passengers can run through the vessel again and again, each time discovering new rooms like they are caught in a maze without end, this is all set up very skilfully.The story is simple - it has not much in common with other ghost ship movies, but rather plays with the fear of technology out of control like 'Christine' (1983) about an evil car or 'Colossus' (1970) about an evil computer. 'Death Ship' is about a ship which became evil itself, menacing machinery driving it on and on over the ocean in search of victims. The scary atmosphere works well and so did the actors. Recommended if you like 70s/80s horror movies.

bensonmum2 While it has some problems, overall, Death Ship is a very enjoyable, atmospheric horror film. Instead of writing a plot summary, I'll just copy one off IMDb that's written much better than I ever could – "Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realize that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one."The plot of Death Ship is fairly simple and straightforward. There's not a lot of confusion as to what is going on. While that may sound like the movie is predictable, it's still fun to watch the events unfold. I will admit that if you over analyze and think about the logic behind the movie, your head will most likely explode. But if you can turn off your brain and just go with it, it can be a very effective movie.Death Ship works primarily because of atmosphere. It's simply dripping and oozing with atmosphere. The vast empty decks, the constant engine noises, music that starts on its own, and the many natural creaks and groans of an old dying ship sets a tone and mood for Death Ship that works. This is old school horror. Death Ship was made in 1980 – way before horror movie makers started over- relying on CGI for their scares. There's none of that here and the movie is better off for it. A few random things about Death Ship that worked on me include: 1. George Kennedy – A great actor who played the possessed Captain Ashland to perfection. What a creepy performance. 2. The shower scene – I've seen several of these blood in the shower scenes over the years and this one is as good as any. Nicely done. 3. Jackie's death – It's our first indication of what the ship was capable of. The ship toyed and played with Jackie not unlike a cat with a mouse. 4. The ship itself – What a fantastic, innovative idea – a Nazi torture ship doing circles in the Atlantic, searching for victims to come on board for slaughter. It's an interesting set-up.

trashgang This flick never had a really proper release. It was available on DVD but was missing 9 minutes. X Rated Kult released it years ago full uncut, the whole 91 minutes. But that label is only available in Germany and most of their releases aren't that cheap but in 2011 this flick got finally released full uncut. It's strange that it was missing 9 minutes because it wasn't gory after all, in fact, there's not that much going on. It's easy to see that it was low budget, no extra lighting, colour temperature which is wrong and bad editing. And some scene's were way too dark. It was one of those final UK/Canadian horrors. A new era was born, the slashers. If you look closely than there are other examples that are showing that no money was involved. They used stock footage of other flicks to make the scene were the cruise ship is being hit by the ghost ship. On the other hand, that ghost ship or death ship was in fact an old ship broken down. Parts were it is moving it still worked but once broken you could see that the ship was anchored, the water didn't move, they filmed it from a moving small boat around that ship.Nevertheless, this flick, although some break it down do deliver due some eerie and atmospheric shots. The red stuff is left out, maybe only the shower scene (one scene that was cut due nudity) contained a lot of it. But on the other hand Death Ship contained a lot of big names in it. George Kennedy I guess doesn't need any explanation. He was believable here as he was in later horrors like Just Before Dawn (1981) or in Creepshow 2 (1987). But it's also worthy to see Richard Crenna who went further in the 3 Rambo's (1982 - 1988) as Trautman. The UK actresses were also not uncommon on the television screen as in flicks like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ((1968)Sally Ann Howes).If you are into eighties and seventies horror then this is a must due it's weird camera angles and the way they used Adolf Hitler in this flick, weird scene, even as the projector is destroyed the film keeps going on. Not gory at all but I'm sure that Ghost Ship (2002) was some kind of tribute toward Death Ship. Once hard to get, now to find easily on DVD.Gore 1/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

klavss I've just thrown 90 minutes of my life down the drain seeing this excuse for a movie and I'm still trying to think of some worse movie than this absurd and erratic waste of film but I'm just unable. It was so remarkably bad and talentless I just had to keep watching till the end. To be honest I didn't know "the kind of film" it was so I was expecting "something more" (anything,at least!!), and having George Kennedy and Richard Crenna leading the cast made me have some expectations.I'm not too keen on terror films and that's the perfect movie to reinforce me or anybody in that opinion. That's the kind of movie that keeps average terror cinema quality well below minimums.Well... maybe if you are one of those terror-film fans looking avidly for some cheap crap to worship as Cult Masterpiece no matter the ultra-low quality of every single aspect of the film this is the flick for you; if you are in the other 99.99% of the human race and are expecting for at least a minimum level of quality then you'll find this film is a real insult to Cinema and to the intelligence of the spectator.I'd like to comment the negative aspects of the film but as I said EVERYTHING is just appalling and done carelessly: From the minimal and unnatural dialogues, reactions and actions of the void characters to the Ed Wood-like sea scenes made against a still of the ship. The cruiser the characters are supposed to be on in the beginning is not seen in any moment from the outside!!, not even when it is sinking!!, except for a few distant lights in a night shot that could be anything. The whole part of the pleasure cruiser sinking is specially bad and confusing... the sinking is not seen AT ALL, just the ship collides (well, that's what we're told at least) and the next moment they are in a life raft in the middle of nowhere, apparently next morning because it's clear sunlight, and then the captain is found underwater - has he stayed there the whole night or what?? Then after being adrift for some hours... ta-dam! they're EXACTLY where the big still picture of the mysterious ship is in the background. (You can see pretty clear in the photo that it is moored - duh!).The plot or argument is so inexistent that in most parts of the film there isn't even any attempt to try to explain it - that why it seems fair to say it is an insult and done carelessly: The people just go from here to there without knowing why like lemmings, stone-faced and totally silent, with that sloooow-paced walk only terror-film directors love, and their only concern seems to be to get separated from all other people and into the isolated danger zones at any cost, with no reasons explained.It is amazing to see how the poor script (if any) and the apparently inexistent director can squeeze absolutely no juice at all out of good character actors like George Kennedy and Richard Crenna and make them look like the worse actors on Earth, and it is sad to see what some actors have to do to get a living.