This listing is for Thirteen Ghosts (2001) DVD.

Actors: Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth, Alec Roberts

Director: Steve Beck

Media Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen

Run time: 1 hour and 31 minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Release date: April 2, 2002

MPAA rating: R (Restricted)

Subtitles: English, Spanish, French

Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS ES 6.1)

Studio: Warner Home Video

Number of discs: 1  

In this remake of the 1960 William Castle classic horror film, a family inherits a spectacular old mansion from an eccentric uncle and moves in . . . but soon discovers the house is haunted. A family inherits an elegant steel-and-glass mansion from a deceased relative. The catch is that along with the house comes a slew of ghosts that can be seen only through special goggles.

A by-the-numbers haunted house movie, albeit one with some neat twists, a couple of good performances and impressive design work, Thirteen Ghosts is a remake of the 1960 original by exploitation superstar William Castle. When ghost-hunter Cyrus (F Murray Abraham) dies his quietly decent widower nephew Arthur (Tony Shaloub) inherits his house. With almost infinite predictability, he, his teenage daughter (Shannon Elizabeth) and young son, as well as a rival ghost-hunter and Cyrus' untrustworthy tame psychic (Mathew Lillard), are trapped in the house, which is a glass labyrinth of sliding panels and shifting staircases. As the woman ghost-hunter Kalina helpfully explains, the house is "a machine designed by the devil and powered by the dead"--specifically by 12 ghosts, most of them murderously malevolent. Shaloub and Lillard manage to make us care about this farrago and Abraham lends his few scenes his usual malignant authority, but the real star is the inventively designed house itself and the outrageous horror-comic makeup of the ghosts. This is a knowingly trashy film enjoyable on its own level. On the DVD: Thirteen Ghosts comes with a short textual explanation of who Castle was and why he should get this sort of homage, a self-congratulatory making-of documentary and filmographies for cast and crew, as well as odd short featurettes explaining the imagined back-story for each of the ghosts.

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