Ghost Ship--Big Boat Blues

Terror on the high seas. It's trite, I know, but it's APT, and that counts for plenty.

An oceangoing grand ball gets cut short, literally, by the surprise failing of a piece of high-tension electrical cable. I have to admit, it's a real surprise watching patrons fall to pieces in the first FIVE MINUTES of the movie. Boy, just when you thought things couldn't get any more hellacious!

The sole survivor of this incident is a young girl who was too short to be affected by the suddenly tensed line.

Then we fast-forward to the present day, and a handful of oceangoing scavengers towing a large hunk of something or other that represents a LOT of scrap metal tonnage. The crew of the salvager is celebrating their successful when an arctic weather pilot brings them an interesting offer--a boat adrift in international waters in the Bering Strait.

The Arctic Warrior, our salvage team's boat, goes in to seek after the boat and runs afoul of trouble early on. The boat's radar only sporadically picks up the massive vessel, which turns out to be an ocean liner. Thus, in the middle of a pouring rainstorm, the Arctic Warrior slams bow-on into the Antonia Graza, our giant ocean liner.

Murphy, the Arctic Warrior's captain, knows the Antonia Graza and her story well, although even he doesn't know the story of the deaths on deck.

Murphy and company's first foray onto the Graza doesn't end well--the flooring gives way beneath a crewmate and almost sends him falling into what looks like a ballroom. One of the crew spots a little girl standing in the ballroom--the same little girl who survived the bloodbath on the Graza in the first place.

Weird things continue to abound as the crew explores the ship. One crewmember, Epps, who saw the little girl in the ballroom, knocks her head on the marble floor of a swimming pool. Her headwound bleeds slightly, and the blood flows INTO a hole in the pool. The pool is also littered with aging shell casings. After Epps leaves, the pool fills with blood, pouring in from the bullet holes.

Worse yet, a flood of water and corpses pours out of a ventilation shaft. FRESH corpses. Month-old corpses. Shortly thereafter, Epps stumbles across a surprise in the cargo hold--a strongbox filled with gold bars.

Make that strongboxes.

The crew packs up the gold in universal acclaim and poises to load it onto the Arctic Warrior, but the Arctic Warrior has troubles of its own. The boat starts...

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