George Kennedy

Richard Crenna

Nick Mancuso

Sally Ann Howes

Kate Reid

Victoria Burgoyne

Jennifer McKinney

Danny Higham

Saul Rubinek

Murray Cruchley

Doug Smith

Anthony Sherwood

Andrew Semple

Adolf Hitler

Norman Smith

Alvin Rakoff

John Robins

Jack Hill

David P. Lewis

Derek Gibson

Harold Greenberg

Larry Nesis

Ivor Slaney

René Verzier

Mike Campbell

Chris Burke

Michel Proulx

Pierre David

Joan Isaacson

Huguette Roy

Michael Bennett

Adrian Hughes

Roger Héroux

Charles Braive

Pedro Gandol

Frances Calder

Pierre Gelinas

Jim Hodgson

David Phillips

Norman Simpson

Andre Brochu

David Appleby

Henri Blondeau

Terry Burke

Steven Cole

Austin Grimaldi

Andy Malcolm

Normand Mercier

Michele Moses

William Trent

Don White

Michael Albrechtsen

Peter Hughes

Grant Page

Peter Benison

Michel Paul Bélisle

Frank Connor

Greg Daniels

Denis Gingras

Paul Gravel

Frank Lenk

André Ouellette

John Palmer

Ingrid Fischer

Anna St. Johns

Victoria Mitchell

Gaudeline Sauriol

Paul-André Guérin

Greg Glynn

Yurij Luhovy

Jean-Pol Passet

June Randall

Linda Browne

Victoria Barney

Joy Berger

Jean Louis Bibeau

Monique Brasseur

Don Carmody

Micheline D'Andre

Michael Dalling

Shirley Gill

Linda Gregory

Nancy Mayer

Dave Novak

Captain Pelletier

Leon Vezina

Jacques Vezina

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Horror

Mystery

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Death Ship

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Bloodstar Productions

Lamitas

Astral Films

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***Ten people trapped on a ghostly… death ship***

A dilapidated German freighter from WW2 curiously rams a modern cruise ship and ten survivors board the mysterious vessel. But will they ever get off alive? George Kennedy plays the retiring captain of the cruise vessel while Richard Crenna appears as the up-and-coming captain.

"Death Ship" (1980) takes the “Poseidon Adventure” (1972) template and adds a horror angle à la the later “Ghost Ship” (2002). But it’s the least of these and isn’t even as good as the low-budget “Ghost Voyage” (2008). Speaking of which, I didn’t view the movie until over a decade after its release and it struck me as low-budget. The constant shots of the navigation equipment and giant pistons operating on their own were particularly dubious and tiring.    

Seeing it again, it’s not as bad as I remember and delivers the goods as far as ghastly scenes go. Furthermore, Victoria Burgoyne has nice legs and a horrific blood bath (actually a shower). Unfortunately, the bright daytime setting of most of the film works against creating a haunting mood. “Ghost Ship” and “Ghost Voyage” didn’t have this problem. Furthermore, the way one of the ten is mysteriously hoisted up by crane cable lacked finesse in its placement, not to mention the unrealistic reaction of the other nine. But I liked the authentic defunct ship setting.

The film runs 1 hour, 31 minutes, and was shot on a defunct German WW2 freighter that was a Kriegsmarine prison vessel used for torturing (how fitting). Additional footage was shot in Quebec City (I’m assuming studio work) whereas some footage was swiped from other flicks, such as the falling grand piano from “The Last Voyage” (1960), the radar sequence from “King Kong” (1976) and the giant pistons from “S.O.S. Titanic” (1979).  

GRADE: B-

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