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''Ghost Ship'' is a 2002 American-Australian horror film directed by Steve Beck. The film was shot in Queensland, Australia and Vancouver, Canada. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington and Karl Urban. It was produced by Dark Castle Entertainment and Village Roadshow Pictures. Despite its title, the film is unrelated to the 1952 film of the same name. ==Plot== In May 1962, dozens of wealthy passengers are dancing in the ballroom and upon the deck of the Italian ocean liner, ''Antonia Graza'', while an Italian woman, Francesca, sings "Senza Fine". On the deck, a young girl, Katie Harwood, is sitting alone, until the ship's captain offers to dance with her. Elsewhere, a hand presses a lever that unravels a thin wire cord from a spool. The spool snaps and the wire slices across the dance floor, bisecting the dancers. Katie is spared due to her height. Forty years later, a boat salvage crew: Captain Sean Murphy, Maureen Epps, Greer, Dodge, Munder and Santos are celebrating a success at a bar when Jack Ferriman, a Canadian weather service pilot, approaches them and says he spotted a vessel running adrift in the Bering Sea. Because the ship is in international waters, it can be claimed by whoever brings it to port. The crew sets out on the ''Arctic Warrior'', an ocean salvage tugboat. They discover the ship is the ''Antonia Graza'', which was believed to be lost at sea. When they prepare to tow it, they discover it contains a large quantity of gold. Strange things begin to happen. Epps claims to have seen a little girl on the stairwell. The crew find a digital watch on the bridge and Greer claims to have heard a woman singing throughout the ship. Epps and Ferriman discover the corpses of another salvage crew. They decide to leave the ship but take the gold, but an invisible force opens a gas valve in the engine room and the ''Arctic Warrior'' explodes as the engine is started, killing Santos and leaving the others stranded. They attempt to repair the ''Antonia Graza'' and sail it back to land. Greer encounters Francesca, the singer he heard, who seduces him and then leads him off a precipice to his death. Captain Murphy, after entering the captain's cabin, finds the ghost of the ''Antonia Graza's'' Captain, who explains that they recovered the gold from a sinking cruiseship, ''Lorelei'', along with a sole survivor. He shows Murphy a picture of the survivor, who he recognises. He rushes to tell the rest of the crew, but a supernatural force causes him to see everyone he meets as the burned ghost of Santos, causing the crew to think he has gone mad and lock him in the drained fish tank. Epps meets Katie, who reveals what happened on the ''Graza''; the sole survivor of the ''Lorelei'' convinced the crew of the ''Graza'' to murder the passengers in order to claim the gold for themselves. One of the ship's officers turned on the rest of the crew and killed them all only to be killed himself by Francesca. Another man then joined Francesca in an embrace and walked away as a large hook swung into her face, killing her. The man is revealed as Jack Ferriman, who is actually a demonic spirit who masterminded the massacre. Epps deduces that Ferriman lured the salvage team to the ''Graza'' to repair the sinking ship, and that the best way to fight him is to sink it. She sets explosives, but is confronted by Ferriman, who has killed the last of her crew. Ferriman describes himself as a salvager of souls; a job he says he earned by a lifetime of sin. He explains that since Katie was a child and never committed a true sin, he cannot control her as he does the evil ghosts. So long as the ''Antonia Graza'' remains afloat he can use it as a trap and keep "management" satisfied. Epps detonates the explosives and sinks the ''Graza''. Katie helps Epps escape the sinking ship. She is left in the debris as the souls trapped on the ship ascend to heaven. Drifting on the open sea, Epps is found by a cruise ship and returned to land. As she is loaded into an ambulance, she sees the battered crates of gold being loaded onto the cruise ship by Ferriman and her fallen crew. Ferriman glares at her and carries on; she screams as the ambulance doors close. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ghost Ship (2002 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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