Haunting of the Mary Celeste

Of all the faux pas of movie directors, to make a film where you can't make out what's going on because you can't see has to be the worst. there's simply no excuse for it!

Combine this with it being pretty boring when you can follow it, you may struggle to make it to the end. About 2/3 through was the best i could do.

In a confined space, the outdoors smokefilled and in daylight inside a safe haven of a harbour of tirnanoir somewhere out there where the celestial duties goes like a merryweather. its a film that has great ambitions, credibel acting, but none whatsoever story nor budget to hoal in the line of great success

its a little ghoststory with some physicalelements like warp hole and magnetic fields, and parapsychological features as removiung objects through thoughtpower, and voodooshamanistic feature as talking heads and whispering seagulls calling from the abyss...

its a flick where you get tired of close up shoots, and silly descicionmaking and where you , at the end thinks they got what they came for and that they deserved their cruel destiny.so in other words curiosity killed the cat, and the grumpy old man draws a heavy sigh of relief, its barely a recommend

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.

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

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.