Ghost Voyage

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name = Ghost Voyage


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director = James Oxford
producer = Jeffrey Beach Phillip J. Roth
writer = Rob Mecarini
starring = Antonio Sabato Jr. Deanna Russo Nicholas IronsCary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
music = Nathan Furst
cinematography = Anton Barkarski
editing = John Quinn
distributor = Sci-Fi Channel
released = January 26, 2008
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language = English
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website = http://www.scifi.com/ghostvoyage/
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imdb_id = 1144579

Ghost Voyage is a 2008 horror film produced for broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States. Its cast includes Antonio Sabato Jr., Deanna Russo, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.cite news |work=The New York Times |title=What's On Tonight |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0DD1030F935A15752C0A96E9C8B63 |first=Kathryn |last=Shattuck |date=2008-01-26 |quote=Seven strangers awaken to find themselves aboard a haunted ship adrift at sea. They can return home if they solve its deadly riddle, but each has only one chance to do so. Deanna Russo and Antonio Sabato Jr. star.]

Plot summary

The plot deals with seven strangers, most of whom are engaged in criminal and/or morally questionable acts, who wake up on an apparently abandoned cargo ship with no memory of how they arrived there.cite news |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |title=TV Today |date=2008-01-26 |quote=Hope floats — and so does purgatory in this new thriller. Antonio Sabato Jr. stars as one of seven people who wake up aboard a haunted ship. There’s bad news, very bad news, and worse news. They’re dead.] The ship's steward soon appears and explains "the rules" to them: First, do not breach any closed doors. Second, do not enter the captain's quarters. Third, do not refuse any orders from a member of the crew. And don't smoke. The unfortunate passengers soon find out that the ship is haunted by malevolent spirits and that they've all been brought there for some mysterious reason. The spirits take those who have committed greater sins (i.e. murder, adultery, drugs, etc.) The 3 remaining people find out that they are already dead and on a boat ride to hell.

Most of the seven strangers die because they broke a rule. The first is a convict that smokes. He is attacked by a ghost that forms from the smoke of his cigarette and thrown into hell. The second is a drug addict. He refused an order from the steward. After being chased by a ghost he has the life sucked out of him. Next is a producer and actress. They entered the captain's quarters. As the actress fixes her hair a ghost image of her forms in the mirror. Later the two make out on the captain's bed, the ghost image of the actress forms again, this time however it is the actress herself. The woman the producer was making out with is a ghost that has taken her form. The producer is killed and the real actress fades from the mirror. Finally two more convicts breach a closed door, the steward had entered a room and closed the door. The two convicts set the door on fire. A demon forms from the fire and attacks. The first is killed and the second flees. The second falls into a ballast tank, a whirlpool forms like the one seen outside moments later at sucks him into hell. The remaining three learn that they are dead after a wave washes over the ship, one is impaled by a pipe and the other two drown. They all wake up on the deck, and the shipbuilder, who was impaled tells them they are already dead. To prove this he stabs the engineer with a pipe. when the pipe is taken out again the wound closed. The steward appears and congratulates them for making it here, not breaking any rules, and explains what is happening. Working together the three retrieve the funeral boat from the ship's cargo hold and set sail. More demons attempt to kill them, the shipbuilder throws the art dealer into the water and the engineer, jumps in to help her. The shipbuilder is sucked into hell and the others return to life on land.

After the shipbuilder is sucked into hell the others return to life on land, they meet and have no memory of the events on the ship. The last scene shows the steward explaining the rules to the next set of strangers, leaving the audience to decide what will happen next.

References

External links

* [http://www.scifi.com/ghostvoyage/ Official website]