Ghostboat (2006)

Ghostboat (2006) is a British film based on a novel by George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger starring David Jason - a fantasy tale of a submarine resurfacing 40 years after it was thought to have sank, only it has no crew and appears not to have aged.

Plot

David Jason plays the only surviving member of the original crew and is accompanied by one of the submarine's builders. Upon re-entering his former Vessel, Jason soon becomes haunted by past memories of his former fellow sailors.

The new crew start out on the same voyage that took place on the night of its sinking to try and find out what actually happened to it. Once in the Baltic, ghosts of the dead sailors once on board possess the current crew and strange things start happening: one being two German anti-submarine bombers who try to destroy the submarine.

A Soviet submarine is detected and through communication error the crew fire upon it and destroy it. It is then discovered that the practice rounds were actually live.

While trying to figure out what happened three aircraft are detected while the submarine is surfaced. The aircraft are Luftwaffe and they strafe the boat with gunfire. It is implied that the captain is killed by this action and another crew member takes over. However on closer inspection there are no bullet holes found on the deck or tower from the strafe attack.

This person who has taken over becomes possessed by the former captain himself. Jason manages to un-possess the modern day crew but goes back down for the captain. The ship's original voyage was to torpedo the then German city of Königsberg (now the city of Kaliningrad in Russia). Jason manages to stop the captain from attacking but is shot in the process. The torpedo room explodes and she ship sinks to the bottom. Jason dies on his bunk clutching a picture of his wife when the water surrounds him.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490134/ link to IMDB]
* [http://www.itv.com/page.asp?partid=5480 link to Television Company overview]