Fresh
Beck maintains a satisfyingly high level of heebie-jeebies throughout.
Joe Leydon, Variety
Overview
Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
Director and cast
- Steve Beck Director
- Tony Shalhoub as Arthur Kriticos
- Embeth Davidtz as Kalina Oretzia
- Matthew Lillard as Dennis Rafkin
- Shannon Elizabeth as Kathy Kriticos
- Matthew Harrison as Damon
- Alec Roberts as Robert 'Bobby' Kriticos
- JR Bourne as Benjamin Moss
- Rah Digga as Maggie Bess
- F. Murray Abraham as Cyrus Kriticos
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
17%
Tomatometer
Rotten
By any objective accounting, Thirteen Ghosts is exactly a baker's dozen too many -- this is a zero of a film.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
A nicely nasty Halloween treat.
Michael Atkinson, Mr. Showbiz
Rotten
Clever one-liners supplant the lack of frights with cackling -- which you might as well do since, by the end of the movie, it's clear that the joke's on you.
Melanie McFarland, Seattle Times
Rotten
A B-grade horror picture seems to be a B-grade horror picture no matter how many studio bucks and digital effects you throw at it.
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle
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