Thir13en Ghosts

Thir13en Ghosts

Credits
Title:	Thir13en Ghosts
Director:	Steve Beck
Writers:	Robb White; Neal Marshall Stevens; Richard D'Ovidio; Todd Alcott; James Gunn
Producers:	Gilbert Adler; Terry Castle; Dan Cracchiolo; Richard Mirisch; Steve Richards; Joel Silver; Robert Zemeckis
Composer:	John Frizzell
Cinematography:	Gale Tattersall
Editors:	Derek G. Brechin Edward A. Warschilka
Production
Distributed by:	Warner Bros. Columbia Pictures Dark Castle Entertainment
Released:	October 26th, 2001
Rating:	R
Running time:	91 min.
Country:	USA/Canada
Language:	English
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Thir13en Ghosts is a an American and Canadian co-produced feature film of the horror genre with an emphasis on haunted house and ghost fiction. It was directed by Steve Beck with a screenplay written by Neal Marshall Stevens and Richard D'Ovidio. It was produced by Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. and Dark Castle Entertainment. It premiered theatrically in the United States on October 26th, 2001. The film stars Tony Shalhoub as widower Arthur Kriticos, who inherits his uncle's glass-walled mansion and brings his daughter and son there to live. Through the course of events, the Kriticos family discovers that original owner Cyrus Kriticos had designed the house to contain the spirits of thirteen violent ghosts - who have now been set free.

Cast[]

Actor	Role
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 Lee Culp	Team member
Charles Andre	Team member
Mikhael Speidel	The First Born Son
Daniel Wesley	The Torso
Laura Mennell	The Bound Woman
Kathryn Anderson	The Withered Lover
Craig Olejnik	The Torn Prince
Shawna Loyer	The Angry Princess
Xantha Radley	The Pilgrimess
C. Ernst Harth	The Great Child
Laurie Soper	The Dire Mother
Herbert Duncanson	The Hammer
Shayne Wyler	The Jackal
John De Santis	The Juggernaut

Notes & Trivia[]

This movie is a remake of the 1960 supernatural thriller 13 Ghosts, albeit with an alternate and numerically stylized spelling. The film was directed by William Castle with a screenplay written by Robb White. It was produced by Columbia Pictures and released theatrically on August 5th, 1960.
Thirteen Ghosts redirects to this page.
The tagline to this film is "There are ghosts around us all the time. Most of them don't want to hurt us. But, there are exceptions..."
There are a total of twenty-five credited cast members in this film.
Production on Thir13en Ghosts began on October 6th, 2000. Principal shooting concluded on December 15th, 2000. The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Studio shots were filmed at The Bridge Studios in Burnaby.
Thir13en Ghosts had a budget of approximately $42,000,000. Its domestic opening was $15,165,355. The film grossed $41,867,960 in the U.S. market with $26,600,000 in international sales. It grossed $68,467,960 worldwide.
Thir13en Ghosts was released on Blu-ray by Shout! Factory on July 28th, 2020.
The ghosts in this film are not given extensive backgrounds in the film itself. However, the DVD release by Warner Home Video contains a special feature that gives mini-biographies for all of the ghosts, including their actual names.
Thir13en Ghosts has a 16% Rotten Tomatometer rating on the film aggregate review site Rotten Tomatoes based on a total of ninety-four reviews. It has an audience score of 49% based on 262,705 user ratings.
This film holds a rating of 30/100 on Metacritic based on twenty-four posted critic reviews. It has a user score of 4.8 based on 296 ratings.
Thir13en Ghosts has a rating of 5.6 on IMDB and 2.6 on Letterboxd.

The Ghosts[]

The First Born Son, Billy Michaels: A ghost of a little bratty boy named Billy Michaels, who loved to pretend to be a cowboy. One day, another little kid challenged Billy to a duel, but Billy’s cap gun was no match for that boy’s real steel- tipped arrow that Billy's ghost still carries. Unlike most of the ghosts, this one is a mild threat, never attacking anyone and just saying "I want to play."

The Torso, Jimmy "The Gambler" Gamino: Jimmy 'The Gambler' Gambino was a gambler in the early 1900s, who caught the attention of the Mafia. After he lost a boxing bet and didn’t have the money to pay up, the Mafia cut him into pieces and wrapped him in cellophane, dumping the remains in the ocean. His ghost appears as a torso with a severed head nearby, and is more a neutral spirit than actively hostile.

The Bound Woman, Susan LeGrow: Susan LeGrow was the richest girl in town and was very popular. Her one flaw was the way she toyed with boys and men. During her senior prom night, she was killed by a jilted ex named Chet Walters, a star quarterback, after catching her cheating with another guy. Her ghost lures Bobby into the dangerous basement and still shows in her prom attire, bound ropes holding her arms.

The Withered Lover, Jean Kriticos: Jean Kriticos was a happy and devoted wife and mother. She died as a result of fire injuries at St Luke's Hospital half a year before the events of the film begin. Unlike most of the ghosts, she is not dangerous; she is benevolent.

The Torn Prince, Royce Clayton: Royce Clayton was a gifted and famous teenage baseball player in the 1940s and ‘50s who caught the eye of colleges around the USA. Thanks to his challenger, a greaser who set him up, Royce died in an accident caused by cut brake lines. His remains are still buried at the baseball diamond, and his ghost carries his baseball bat.

The Angry Princess, Dana Newman: Dana Newman was a beautiful but abused lady who lived in the later 1900s. She had plastic surgeries to alter her perceived flaws, and after a botched experiment that mutilated her eye, she brutally killed herself in a bathtub at the clinic. Her ghost often carries blood, is naked, and carries the same knife she used to commit suicide.

The Pilgrimess, Isabella Smith: Isabella Smith came to North America as a colonist in order to find a new life after being an orphan in England. The tight-knit community ostracized and ignored her and used her as a scapegoat, being accused of witchcraft when crops and animals mysteriously died. She denied such accusations, but she was trapped in a burning barn but managed to escape unharmed. That sealed her fate, and she died of starvation after being condemned to the pillory that she carries with her as a ghost; her skin is badly damaged.

The Great Child, Harold Shelburne: Harold Shelburne was a special-needs man who never outgrew diapers and had to be spoon fed even as a fully grown adult; he often made baby sounds. After being mocked, teased and tormented relentlessly all his life, he caused a massacre at the old freak show where he and his mother, Margaret Shelburne, lived. Some of the freaks had kidnapped and killed his mother as a joke one night. The circus owner, Jimbo, had Harold mutilated beyond recognition. His ghost appears as Harold did in life, with a small patch of hair, a bib covered in vomit and cloth diapers; he still holds the ax that he used to kill his enemies.

The Dire Mother, Margaret Shelburne: Margaret Shelburne, Harold’s mother, was a shy little lady, standing three feet tall. She never could stand up for herself. At the freak show where she lived, she was raped by the Tall Man, another circus freak, and gave birth to her illegitimate son Harold, whom she loved more than life itself. She smothered and spoiled him from infancy and never stopped as he grew; this is the main reason for Harold's mental handicap. The two were abused to the point where Harold killed almost the entire circus after Margaret died. As ghosts, they remain together, with Harold being protective. Like the Torso, she is not aggressive.

The Hammer, George Markeley: A happy and honest family man and blacksmith, George Markeley was falsely accused of stealing by a higher up named Nathan, and threatened with exile from their old Western town. George refused to leave, and his family was lynched by Nathan and his band of thugs while walking home from the town market one day. Seeking justice in the corrupt town, George took his blacksmith's hammer and killed those responsible, but the townsfolk chained him to a tree and drove railroad spikes into his body. His left hand was cut off and his hammer was crudely attached to it. His ghost is one of the more angry spirits, and is partially responsible for Dennis' death.

The Jackal, Ryan Khun: Born to a prostitute in 1887, Ryan Khun developed a sick appetite for women, attacking and raping strays and prostitutes in the night. He voluntarily went to Borehamwood Institute for treatment to cure this problem, but the medical practices made him much worse, causing him to go completely insane after years of solitary confinement, having his head locked in a cage after breaking out of his straitjacket, and developing a hatred of humanity. When the asylum burst into flames, he chose to stay behind and perish in the fire. His ghost carries his torn straight jacket with the torn cubic head cage; it is called a sign of Hell's Winter.

The Juggernaut, Horace "Breaker" Mahoney: Horace 'Breaker' Mahoney was born very disfigured and was an outcast his entire life. His mother abandoned him at a tender age, and his dad put him to work in the junkyard, using his unusual strength to crush cars. After his dad died, Horace went insane: He would take motorists and hitchhikers, tear them apart with his bare hands and feed the remains to his dogs. After several of these murders, he was arrested. A SWAT team shot and killed him when he broke free of his hand cuffs. As a ghost, he remained at the junkyard with his body riddled with bullet holes, killing intruders. Both Dennis and Cyrus remark that his kill count numbered in the 40s, making this ghost one of the most evil and dangerous of the twelve.

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