Incannerax
What a waste of my time!!!
Roxie
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Logan
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
davidvmcgillivray-24-905811
Many important observations about this minor ghost story have already been made by others. The plot has a gaping plot hole and two long, irrelevant sequences - Ian Carmichael's drunk act and Hugh Burden's demonstration of unusual vibrations - that must have been added merely to increase the running time. The film is one of several shot on director Vernon Sewell's own yacht and the story has a flavour (wife encourages her lover to kill her husband) of Sewell's later film "Rogue's Yarn" (1957), shot in the same Shoreham boatyard. Most interesting, however, is that this is the third film Sewell made of Pierre Mills and Celia de Vylars' one act play, "L'Angoisse." The first was "The Medium" (1934), now lost. Then came "Latin Quarter" (1945). After "Ghost Ship" Sewell had one more crack at the tale, "House of Mystery" (1960). The common factor, apart from the psychic gobbledygook, is the sadism of the murders. I'd like to point out that none of this information comes from me. It was first pointed out as long ago as 1973 in David Pirie's book "A Heritage of Horror". Jonathan Rigby added more details in his 2000 book "English Gothic."
gordonl56
Dermot Walsh and Hazel Court decide to buy a 40 year old yacht. The salesman tries to talk them out of the purchase. He tells them a tale of how the locals believe the ship to be haunted. They get a laugh out of the story and buy the ship anyway. The two restore the boat and have a big party to celebrate. They take the yacht out for a short cruise. When they return to port, the engine room man swears he has seen a ghost and quits. The next engineer also quits after seeing the same ghost. Somewhat at a loss at what to do they call in a medium. They have a séance and the medium explains the reason for the haunting. The previous owner had shot and killed his wife and lover. He had then hid the bodies below the decks next to the outside hull. A somewhat effective thriller that starts out and finishes well. The middle does drag a bit, but for a low budget film it passes the time well enough. Always nice to Hazel Court in any sort of film.
jamesraeburn2003
A young couple (Dermot Walsh & Hazel Court) buy a steam yacht despite warnings from the salesman that it is haunted. They restore the boat and throw a party on board to celebrate its trial run along the Sussex coast. However, it looks as though the vessel may be haunted as two engine men resign claiming to have seen a ghost on board. The couple decide to call upon the services of a medium to get to the bottom of it. They hold a séance which reveals a horrifying secret about the previous owners of the yacht who disappeared from it in mysterious circumstances while at sea years before.All in all, Ghost Ship (not to be confused with the CGI laden effects blockbuster of 2002) is an unpretentious little second feature, which provides an hour of pleasant if undemanding entertainment. The acting is above the normal standard you would expect for this sort of thing even though Walsh's attempt at an American accent is questionable. Hazel Court offers a bright performance as his wife and she would go on to appear in a number of notable British horror films such as Hammer's groundbreaking Curse Of Frankenstein and Roger Corman's marvelous Edgar Allen Poe adaptation, The Masque Of The Red Death. The script was clearly a variation on the classic real life mystery of the Mary Celeste that comes off reasonably well though more in the general handling than in the script which includes a few plot inconsistencies and the film shows that quite a lot can be gained from a small budget.Director Vernon Sewell was an interesting though sadly neglected film maker who apart from a small handful never got many A features and spent most of his career turning out quota quickies such as this. A number of these featured his own steam yacht, The Gelert, which is the vessel featured in this film which he often managed to use as an excellent set. The cast of Ghost Ship includes Sewell's wife, Joan Carol.
Chei Mi Rose
You can't look at this movie and compare to the blockbusters, but as a B flick it's pretty good, even up at the top (in my mind). The story of the ghost is told in flashbacks and through a séance. The acting is pretty good, though the stars are not memorable. It's almost like watching an old TV show, though I more liken it to "The Woman Who Came Back" (1945). Someone just wrote a nice little mystery with some adequately spooky moments, and that is about all there is to it. It starts out with a couple trying to buy an older steamboat. The man selling it to them warns them of its haunting. You see moments of the inquiry and story that led to the haunting, but it is not until the séance that you start to get a clue as to what caused the haunting. This movie has nothing to do with movies of the same title, one from the forties and one from a few years ago.
