After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
This creaking vessel of a movie can't spice a routine story with genuine horror.
– Robert Denerstein,
Denver Rocky Mountain News,
26 Oct 2002
rotten:
A dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
29 Oct 2002
rotten:
In a cut-and-paste job more transparent than ectoplasm, Ghost Ship screenwriters Mark Hanlon and John Pogue plunder every notable horror movie from the last 30 years.
– Mark Holcomb,
Village Voice,
29 Oct 2002
rotten:
A lame script, featuring sorry dialogue and a senseless story, is more likely to provoke laughs than screams from its intended audience.
– Kirk Honeycutt,
Hollywood Reporter,
30 Oct 2002
rotten:
The final reel plots a course smack between predictable and sheer idiocy.