Haunting of the Mary Celeste

I wanted to start by mentioning that another reviewer gave inaccurate info on what happened to the Mary Celeste. She was not run aground by her captain (if she was where did the captain and his family go?), as she was found floating by another vessel and taken to Gibralter. People are still trying to figure out what happened to those on board. There was definitely a good story to be told about researching this ship. I didn't feel like this movie accomplished that. I don't think this film qualified as a horror movie, and it seemed like the writer didn't quite know what they wanted to say...I was pleasantly surprised to see Richard Roundtree and I thought he did a good job. SInce Amara starred in this film it's too bad the Winchesters weren't investigating because they would have done a much better job and the movie would have been more interesting lol.

Ultimately this is an enjoyably mild and atmospheric horror film if you get past the slightly dull first half. It has the production values of a TV Movie, but is atmospherically shot with a nice line in melancholy.

The acting is convincing throughout, even during the talky scenes set in featureless cabins. A slow burner for sure, but not bad. My score is 6 out of 10.

Boring. Just boring. If you want to see a great movie about a haunted boat I'd suggest a ghost ship, it's fantastic!

Huge waste of time. There is barely any story, the plot isn't intriguing, you can pretty much figure what is going to happen before they even reach destination. Horror elements are nowhere to be found.

I know this is not a success. It was almost there. The intimate setting is great. Acting is quite passable. The build of terror via the music is nice.

All of the elements are there, but it just doesn't deliver on scare.

One other thing, for me, is that it is a nice short film...I am so tired of 3 hour films!

This is fun, though..I would love to have been able to edit this....all of the pieces to the puzzle of scare are in place, some rearranging could have made this GREAT!