Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Steve Beck

Writers:

Robb White (story)
Benjamin Carr (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

26 October 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Terror has multiplied.

Plot:

When Cyrus Kriticos, a very rich collector of unique things dies, he leaves it all to his nephew and his family. All including his house, his fortune, and his malicious collection of ghosts!

Plot Keywords:

Lifting Person In Air | Intentionally Misspelled Title | Gore | Loss Of Wife | Loss Of Mother

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Tony Shalhoub	...	Arthur Kriticos
Embeth Davidtz	...	Kalina Oretzia
Matthew Lillard	...	Dennis Rafkin
Shannon Elizabeth	...	Kathy Kriticos
Alec Roberts	...	Robert 'Bobby' Kriticos
JR Bourne	...	Benjamin Moss
Rah Digga	...	Maggie Bess
F. Murray Abraham	...	Cyrus Kriticos
Matthew Harrison	...	Damon
Jacob Rupp	...	Cyrus' Assistant
Mike Crestejo	...	Team Member
Aubrey Culp	...	Team Member (as Aubrey Lee Culp)
Charles Andre	...	Team Member
Mikhael Speidel	...	Billy Michaels, The First Born Son
Daniel Wesley	...	Jimmy 'The Gambler' Gambino, The Torso

Also Known As:

13 Ghosts (USA) (alternative spelling)
13 fantômes (Canada: French title)
Thirteen Ghosts (USA) (alternative spelling)

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence/gore, nudity and some language.

Runtime:

91 min | France:87 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Malaysia:18SG | Iceland:16 | Singapore:M18 | Philippines:R-18 | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Denmark:15 | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:R (Ontario) (video rating) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Portugal:M/16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Brazil:16 | Finland:K-15 (re-rating) | Finland:K-18 (original rating) | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #37748)

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

The budget, opening weekend box office gross, and box office gross overall of this film are all virtually identical (within one million dollars) to that of House on Haunted Hill (1999), which opened almost exactly two years earlier. Both films were adapted from stories written by Robb White.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the Angry Princess lies in the tub, Kathy's sleeves are alternately up/down between shots.

Quotes:

Dennis Rafkin: Hey, Glass Family Robinson, you're wasting your breath!

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Scary Movie 4 (2006)

Soundtrack:

Mirror Mirror

If you live in a glass house...

This movie wasn't as scary as it was intriguing. The concept of the movie was intriguing to me because they were into capturing ghosts, non-ghostbuster style. Of course trying to harness ghosts might be a little dangerous, hence this becomes a scary movie.

The inherited house was another cool feature, in fact it was probably the best feature of the entire movie. It was a glass death trap. It was a transforming glass house with a bunch of inscriptions on it to keep the ghosts in. The house was designed very much in the image of the movie "Cube". But in the end I just wasn't all that interested in Cyrus Kriticos' (F. Murray Abraham) goal.