Ship of the Damned

Stumbling upon the 2024 movie "Ship of the Damned" by random chance, I must say that I was immediately drawn to the movie given its cover. However, I had never heard about the movie, and I wasn't really harboring big expectations to writer and director Steve Lawson. But still, I opted to give him the benefit of the doubt and opted to check out the movie.

The storyline in the movie was a bit bland. There simply wasn't enough momentum or forward drive to the narrative to keep it overly interesting or entertaining. Sure, it was watchable, but it was mundane and somewhat boring. And that made sitting through 85 minutes of it somewhat of a test of wills.

I wasn't familiar with the actors and actresses on the cast list in the movie. And that is actually something that I do enjoy when I sit down to watch a movie. It should be noted that the acting performances in the movie were actually fair.

Needless to say that the movie's cover was far more interesting than the contents of the actual movie. But I was actually expecting that, so it wasn't really a surprise.

It was difficult to buy into the illusion that the movie was supposed to take place aboard an ancient ship, because it felt like a makeshift studio with a few wooden plates put together and some rope tossed casually over the wooden plates.

"Ship of the Damned" is suitable for a single viewing, though it is hardly a movie that I would recommend for you to rush out and get to watch. Nor is it a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time.

My rating of "Ship of the Damned" lands on a four out of ten stars.

The budget for this film must have been a few pounds supposedly set on an old fashioned pirate ship - yet it looks like it was made in someone's shed - you will have to unfortunately need watch it to find out how bad the set was.

Then a radio found 40 years ago is used, yet it still powers up!

Hardly a scene on deck, the interior shots look nothing like a ship of the time - looks like someone has nailed a few bits of wood together.

The models of the ship used, reminds you of the old 50s' and 60s film that used models not CGI Various silhouettes of the ship are used, yet they don't resemble the model ship that you see a few times in the film.

If you have nothing else to watch, this isn't the film for you its really aint worth watcing - use fast forward!

A plot revolving around cannibalistic pirates it's sounds original and the DVD cover looked great and caught my eye. But unfortunately it's direction is very bad the pirates look awful this would of been cooler if they looked more zombie like, dead looking and added some make-up considering they've been on the ship for centuries. It's not all bad though some of the characters are interesting like Elena, Michael and the captain the rest of the actors are terrible deliberately putting on a deep pirate voice. One pirate makes weird growling noises it's like they were thinking about making pirate zombies but decided not to the last minute but kept the scenes in anyway like I said it would have been a far much better direction to head for. The only satisfying part this movie had was when a girl got stabbed in the mouth that was pretty cool I wouldn't watch this movie it's not worth your time and it's not very good either.

The plot is very amateurish. But that never really matters. Nor does the really cheesy set that is supposed to be the innards of a pirate ship. Then the movie just becomes a matter of the ancient crew and the modern preservationist lady spending hours kickboxing or something. There is really nothing to describe as really nothing happens.

There are some dumb scenes that are supposed to show rituals or backstory about how the ship and crew survived so long and were slightly educated regarding modern times. Yet nothing goes anywhere. Because everything is confined to the cheap set. With no plot! And zero tension.

Hot ex-boyfriend who invited preservationist lady to investigate the ship hides like a scaredy-cat for most of the movie. Then he doesn't. And that pans out as well as expected.

After that, the movie ends stupidly. In the presence of orange slices. Arrr, there be no entertainment here, mateys.