“Ghost Ship” is a painfully bland horror movie with its only catch being that it’s set on a boat. I don’t know what the filmmakers were thinking when they wrote this stupid picture.

A salvage crew, led by Murphy (Gabriel Byrne “The Usual Suspects”, “Miller’s Crossing”), set out on another assignment when they come across a long-lost passenger ship that has been missing since 1962. They get aboard but it isn’t long before they’re under attack from the ship’s ghostly inhabitants. It turns into just about the generic horror movie ever made so if you’ve seen any films with ghosts before (“The Haunting”, “The Others” etc…) then you’ll know what’s coming.

I didn’t care about any of the characters. It’s so sad that it is so rare for horror movies to produce characters of any interest and “Ghost Ship” is simply another movie to confirm that. Gabriel Byrne is boring. Julianna Margulies (“Snakes On A Plane”) is abysmal and so is everybody else in this film. Also, what’s the obsession with making movies with ghosts? Ghosts are one of the least scary creatures that you could put in a movie yet time and time again, we see endless films with ghosts. The ghosts in this film are as dull as they come.

The opening scene in “Ghost Ship” shows a ton of passengers being sliced in half but the gore is so over the top, nobody could find it scary. The movie is not remotely scary and it’s certainly not interesting. I was not expecting a lot but I did hope the movie would make good use of its location and feature some strong special effects but this film completely failed. I don’t know who could conceivably enjoy this picture and I suggest you steer clear from this port.