THIRTEEN GHOSTS, Steve Beck's feature debut, is the second recent remake (following THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL) of a film by 1950s and 60s camp horror king, William Castle. Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub) is a financially strapped widower struggling to raise two children, Kathy (Shannon Elizabeth) and Bobby (Alec Roberts), after .. Read more
| Starring | F. Murray Abraham, Shannon Elizabeth, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard |
|---|---|
| Director | Steve Beck |
| Genres | Horror |
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THIRTEEN GHOSTS, Steve Beck's feature debut, is the second recent remake (following THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL) of a film by 1950s and 60s camp horror king, William Castle. Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub) is a financially strapped widower struggling to raise two children, Kathy (Shannon Elizabeth) and Bobby (Alec Roberts), after losing his wife in a house fire. A stroke of apparent luck arrives when Arthur learns he has inherited a mansion from his mysterious Uncle Cyrus (F. Murray Abraham). Ecstatic, Arthur whisks the kids and nanny, Maggie (Rah Digga) off to their new home, a bizarre glass and steel structure with strange Latin inscriptions carved on the walls. The family is thrilled, until a psychic and former employee of Cyrus', Rafkin (Matthew Lillard), reveals that Arthur's departed uncle was a power hungry ghost collector who captured twelve spirits in the house. Arthur is skeptical. But when his children disappear, and Rafkin gives him a pair of special glasses that allow him to view the house's gruesome inhabitants, he believes. In Beck's special effects-laden gore-fest, the two men race against time to find the children as the house's strange internal mechanism begins sealing off the exits and freeing the angry ghosts.
| Starring | F. Murray Abraham, Shannon Elizabeth, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Tony Shalhoub, Alec Roberts, Kathryn Anderson, J.R. Bourne, Rah Digga |
|---|---|
| Director | Steve Beck |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 27 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 27 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | Italian |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Dutch, English, Hindi, Italian |
| Released | DVD: 22 Jul 2002 Blu-ray: 22 Oct 2007 Production year: 2001 |
| Format | DVD |
William Castle - on whose original this horror film is based - was something of a downmarket Hitchcock and master of... read more on Time Out
Tedious remake with only the architecture and some ghastly ghosts to admire.
I was really looking forward to this film only to find it was silly, pointless and boring. I really could not comprehend all that glass. I wanted to see a classic gothic ghost story and all I got was intellectual rubbish!
Did these ghosts come from? One with a good dose of evil is all I can say.
Thirteen ghosts is a remake of an old 50's or 60's movie, and incomparison this is about as dark as it gets.
When a down on their luck family inherit the house of an old mad relative they are eager to move in. The spectacular glass house hosts more than just them.
Not as scary as Dark Castles first production (house on haunted hill) it is still quite a frightening experience, occasionally lightened by humourous moments.
More of a 4 star than 3..