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The theme of ghost ships has been used by directors more than once to create action-packed blockbusters, thrillers or horror films. Especially if the plot of this or that film is based not on the fiction of the scriptwriters, but on real stories or legends that still excite the minds of mysticism lovers. The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is especially popular among filmmakers. How many films have been devoted to this topic? Countless. And in each of them, the creators shared their amazing hypotheses that explain this mysterious anomaly. And viewers then and now continue to enjoy watching these famous paintings, which make them follow the development of the plot with bated breath.
We present the top 10 most popular films about ghost ships.
10 Death Ship (1980)
The film is set in the last year of World War II. A passenger ship is wrecked as a result of a collision with a packet boat. The survivors decide to take it on the road, but they are surprised by the fact that there is no one alive there. How can a ship remain operational for so long without a crew? Mysticism or tricks of the Nazis?
9. Bermuda Triangle (2005)
Eric Beniroll has assembled a team of experts who can help him find his missing ship. This professional group includes four people specializing in different fields of knowledge. Soon they go to look for the lost ship, but they themselves will have to face something that is clearly not amenable to logical explanation. Now these people have completely different tasks: to find out their location and understand if they have a chance to return home alive.
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006-2007)
The devilishly charming and resilient captain of the “Black Pearl”, pirate Jack Sparrow, who has fallen in love with the audience, recalls his unrequited debt to the captain of the “Flying Dutchman”, no less famous to all lovers of pirate stories. He has to decide how to avoid eternal damnation, help his friends and outwit the sinister Davy Jones, who is hunting for the sinful souls of pirates…
7. Triangle (2009)
Greg calls his girlfriend, who recently became a mother, to unwind from household chores on a yacht. A strong storm leads to the wreck of the ship, and those who survived hopefully grabbed onto the hull of the yacht. After some time, a liner comes to the aid of the survivors, on board of which there is not a soul. However, this does not mean at all that there is absolutely no one on the ship – unexpected guests feel the eyes of someone who is not at all happy with their arrival.
6. Plankton (1994)
Several teenagers were caught in a storm while swimming in a rubber boat. A yacht passing nearby helped the children to escape. But only, the problem is that there are no people on board the ship. The teenagers began to explore the yacht with interest and found a variety of marine life and a bunch of different equipment on it, but they did not meet a single living soul. But soon, they manage to understand what happened to the ship’s crew…
5. Bermuda Triangle Mystery (1978)
The Coast Guard recorded an SOS signal from a ship that had long been considered missing without a trace. This confuses the service staff. It turns out that many years ago, strange events took place on board this ship, which led to tragic consequences. It turns out that the cause of mass deaths on the ship was an ordinary doll, which the crew members saw overboard, mistaking it at first for a living person. This seemingly harmless toy was taken on board and after that terrible things began to happen on the ship – a series of strange deaths. The death of these people is similar to accidents, but no one believes in a mere coincidence. The passengers are in real panic. However, even a hasty escape from the ship of the survivors does not leave them a chance for salvation …
4. Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
The action of the picture takes place in the middle of 1943. The US military is conducting an experiment that could result in the creation of a special device that makes it possible to make a warship invisible to the enemy. During the first stage of the study, the destroyer Eldridge disappears without a trace, and two crew members fall into the future forty years in advance. Here they find themselves at a military base, where such research continues.
3. Bermuda Triangle (2001)
A mysterious ship was found in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, on which there were no people. Later it became clear that this is the legendary “Queen Crown”, which disappeared in the early seventies of the last century.
Trying to understand what happened to the ship, researchers will soon land on board, not realizing that the ship has long been captured by the forces of evil that have penetrated through a time portal that connected our world with the dark side of the universe.
2. Virus (1999)
A small ship is miraculously saved from the invasion of a powerful typhoon. Members of the crew of this ship find the ship quite by accident. After some time, it turns out that there is absolutely no one on it. Where did the passengers and crew go? Not too tormented by this issue, the team members who discovered a valuable find decide to tow it to the nearest port, for which they expect to receive a fairly large reward. However, two of them became suspicious. And their premonition did not deceive them – earlier the ship was attacked by an extraterrestrial life form, which is extremely unfriendly towards earthly inhabitants.
1. Ghost Ship, Mystery of the Ocean (2002)
Somewhere on the outskirts of the Bering Sea, a rescue team finds parts of a large liner that was considered sunken for several decades. Boarding the mysterious ship, the rescuers begin to learn ominous details from the past ship. It turns out that all the passengers of the ship were brutally murdered by the crew members. It’s all the fault of gold, which pushes people to terrible crimes. Now the rescue team will have to enter into an unequal struggle with the forces of evil, during which only one of them will survive.