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Thir13en Ghosts

Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

October. 26,2001
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5.6
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R
| Horror Thriller

Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

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Brandon Ferguson
2001/10/26

I first saw this movie as a child back in 2007, six years after it's release. Back then I was so amazed at the level of creativity that this movie had offered. So many interesting and unique details were depicted which made it stand out quite well compared to other horror movies.It has now been 16 years since its release, and after just watching it again, I can plainly say that this movie has not aged well at all. In fact, watching it now was sort of a pain. The story was still intriguing, but the actual 'ghosts' look so boring and not very well designed, with the exception of a couple and even they are a bit lackluster. The acting isn't anything exceptional, but it works. If you were a new viewer and weren't informed of the time period of this movies release, you would quickly realize that it was released during the very early 2000's.The story is okay. A band of people are placed in a situation they didn't want or expect to be in and are trying to find a way to leave it with their lives. Sounds somewhat typical, but it does it decently well. The one major complaint I have is that the movie never addresses how the ghosts died, which is a question that I find most people as well as myself are left wondering. Final Thoughts: This movie worked during the time of it's release, but it doesn't work as well now. The impact of time has made it unfortunately a bit difficult to view. You won't be totally left unfulfilled investing an hour and a half watching this, but just know that it won't keep up with today's standards of a horror movie.

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Filipe Neto
2001/10/27

This film is the remake of a film with the same name directed in 1960 by William Castle. The plot is similar: Arthur Kriticos is a modest man embittered by the death of his wife when he receives the news of a great inheritance left to him by a uncle, Cyrus, who was very rich. In the inheritance is included a huge and very modern house that Arthur doesn't know to be haunted by a collection of evil spirits that his uncle hunted and imprisoned. The film has a truly frightening opening sequence that shows us how this man hunted and trapped the most cruel spirits. But then the film calms down, takes on a more cadenced rhythm and builds the ending, on a plot simpler and more psychological than one might expect. Suspense isn't effective as it should, some script solutions are forced and unnatural, even resorting to obvious clichés. There are several scenes of graphic violence somewhat shocking but this is not scary, it's disgusting. In contrast, the film is visually pleasing, with proper cinematography, good special effects and sound and an extraordinary setting. The house is something like I've never seen, combining tradition and modernity with a sinister touch, and the subplot around it was a plus point for the film. Tony Shalhoub (who still remembers this actor in Monk?) did a good job as lead actor and F. Murray Abraham also pleased me. I didn't like Matthew Lillard, overly theatrical and exaggerated to the point of being humorous when he shouldn't. The rest of the cast was OK and did their job without surprising, disillusioning or highlighting.

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Nicolas F. Costoglou
2001/10/28

This is the rare instant of a movie, where i have actually no idea what they were trying to do...This is the directorial debut of Steve Beck known for his incredible effect work on great movies like "Indiana Jones the last Crusade", "The Abyss", and "Hunt for Red October". And it shows, because the production-design, the special- and make- up-effects (by the legends Howard Berger, Gregory Nicotero and Robert Kurzman) all look very good. BUT this is also the reason that this movie never feels like a horror movie, because there is no atmosphere, because of the lighting in particular, which is very bright, so you can see all the work put on screen. I understand why they did that, but that's one of the reasons this movie never feels scary, it looks actually more like a Disney family movie with out-of-nowhere gore and violence...The actors all do their job fairly well, but the emotional center (and strongest point) of this film is Tony Shalhoub. His performance is the main reason the key-scenes of this film actually work.However, the real main protagonist of the movie is definitely the haunted house. It's a kinda steam-punk-puzzle-clockwork and the main setting for everything that happens. It's not particularly scary to be in that kind of environment, and especially things like (Hellraiser-) ghosts feel very much out of place, but like i said, the make-up is very well done, it just feels wasted.The soundtrack is also very bland and i can't remember one single note to be honest...So...this isn't a horror-, sci-fi-, comedy-, family-, or mystery movie...well at least it doesn't feel like on of these genres.But everything's solid, nothings really bad, just unfocused and confused, like a child in a history lesson.The only reason it works, is because of the chemistry between our protagonist and his family. The movie actually introduces them in the most effective scene in the whole film, while showing the opening credits, this little 360- shot tells us everything we need to know perfectly and emotional powerful. If you don't feel like watching this, the intro and opening credits are two scenes you should watch nevertheless.A confused and unfocused film, with some solid entertaining value and a strong emotional core...

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Rocketeer_Raccoon
2001/10/29

Sigh, where do I begin with this convoluted movie that might as well be as dead as a ghost.Annoying kids, check. Typical widowed husband who lost his wife, check. Family members inheriting haunted house, check. Stupid characters along with bad acting, check. Scary scenes that ain't even scary, check.Yeah, about that last part, what is the point of it being a horror movie if the horror stuff in it is really tame and isn't scary at all? All it is' is a generic typical haunted house movie that fails to be a real horror movie and instead it's just got just cheap boos. Worst of all is the fact that it's one of those bad remake movies... *facepalm*. :(

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