13 ghosts
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 13 ghosts |
| Original title | Thirteen Ghosts alternative spelling: THIR13EN GHOSTS |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Steve Beck |
| script |
Neal Marshall Stevens , Richard D'Ovidio |
| production |
Gilbert Adler , Joel Silver , Robert Zemeckis |
| music | John Frizzell |
| camera | Gale Tattersall |
| cut |
Derek Brechin , Edward A. Warschilka |
| occupation | |
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13 Geister (original title: Thirteen Ghosts or THIR13EN GHOSTS ) is a horror film from 2001 by director Steve Beck . It is a remake of the 1960 film 13 Ghosts (German film title: Das eheimliche Erbe ).
action
57-year-old Cyrus Kriticos uses the latest technology and a team of specialists to hunt ghosts. Special glasses make it possible to make dead souls visible. Cyrus has already captured eleven ghosts. The twelfth ghost is in a junkyard - you can get hold of him, but many members of the team die in the action. Cyrus Kriticos remains bleeding and motionless on a wrecked car.
A lawyer tells math teacher Arthur Kriticos that his uncle Cyrus has died. Arthur is also told that he has inherited his uncle's house and that he can take possession of it immediately. Such an inheritance would come in handy for Arthur, as he lives in a much too small apartment with his daughter Kathy, son Bobby and nanny Maggie. His wife died six months ago in an apartment fire and he is also plagued by money problems. He gets into the car with his children and the nanny to follow the lawyer's car. After sunset they reach the lonely house. Dennis Rafkin is waiting in front of the entrance, who wants to be let in because he is from the public utility company. In fact, Rafkin is a former, media-talented employee of Cyros Kriticos - he wants to get the money that he allegedly owed him.
Kathy, Bobby and Maggie are extremely impressed by the building, which looks like an extravagant museum and whose walls are made of glass. There are strange writing on the panes. Dennis Rafkin goes into the basement under a pretext, where painful visions take hold of him. In addition, with his special glasses he recognizes the dangerous ghosts who are held captive here. Horrified, he runs to Arthur and the lawyer to reveal his true identity to them and to warn them. Arthur is concerned, but the lawyer dismisses Rafkin's remarks as gossip. The lawyer goes alone into the basement, where he discovers a suitcase of money. When he takes it, he sets a mechanism in motion that seals the house and moves the glass walls. Chased by a ghost, the lawyer backs away, his body being severed by a closing glass door.
The others are now looking for Bobby, who got lost in the labyrinthine building. Little by little the ghosts trapped in the cellar are released. Kathy is attacked and injured. Arthur fails to help his daughter. But suddenly Kalina Oretzia appears, pushing back the ghost.
Kalina Oretzia claims to have entered the house through an opening that has now been closed again. She shows the others the Arcanum , a book that the astrologer Basileus wrote in the 15th century and describes a machine with which one can see into the future. Cyrus built this machine - the whole house is this machine. The texts on the glass walls are written in Latin script that hold back ghosts. The machine transform the energy of the spirits to open the Ocularis Infernum (eye of hell). Arthur learns to his horror that one of the ghosts is his deceased wife. Cyrus also needs a 13th ghost - Arthur is intended for this.
During the conversation, Kathy also disappears, and again the ghosts attack. Dennis Rafkin saves Arthur's life, but he himself is killed. Cyrus Kriticos, who was believed dead, suddenly appears. He had only faked his own death and is now waiting for Arthur to die. He needs his soul in order to be able to finally open the eye of hell. Kalina Oretzia turns out to be Cyrus' secret lover, she has prepared everything for him. Nevertheless, she is lured into a trap by Cyrus and killed.
Arthur finds Bobby and Kathy kneeling on a narrow platform; the two are swirled around by huge, movable blades. In desperation, he jumps to his children and puts his arms around them protectively.
The nanny Maggie discovers a kind of control console and a tape from which the spells come. She presses buttons at random and tears out the tape, whereupon the mechanics get out of control and the spells fall silent. The ghosts pounce on Cyrus Kriticos and kill him. When the mechanics collapse, the rotating blades also come to a standstill. Arthur can save himself to a safe place with his children. The machine is destroyed and the dead souls are free. Arthur's deceased wife appears as a shining spirit before she too disappears.
production
Filming began on October 6, 2000 and ended on December 15, 2000. The film was shot entirely in Canada .
It was released in the US on October 26, 2001, and in Germany on January 17, 2002.
Production costs were estimated at around $ 42 million. The film grossed around 68 million US dollars in cinemas worldwide, including around 41 million US dollars in the USA and around 2.5 million US dollars in Germany.
The glasses used in the film are a reference to the original Das eheimliche Erbe , which came into cinemas in 1960 with a technique called "Illusion-O": In the black and white film, the ghosts appeared in a pale blue. The viewers got glasses with a red and a blue foil. When you saw the film through the red foil, the images of the ghosts were enhanced - when you saw the film through the blue foil, the ghosts disappeared.
The ghosts
The ghosts mentioned in the film are:
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The firstborn son (Mikhael Speidel):
Billy Michaels was fatally injured as a child playing cowboys and Indians by an arrow that now protrudes from his forehead. -
The Torso (Daniel Wesley):
Jimmy Gambino was one player who was warned not to get involved in big things. He lost a poker game to a madman betting his nonexistent wife and children. He couldn't cash his bet, which later cost him his head. As a ghost he has no legs and always pushes his severed head in front of him. -
The Tied Woman (Laura Mennell):
Susan LeGrow was a cheerleader and one of the most popular girls at her school. She was the prom queen at the prom where she was with her boyfriend Chet. At the party, however, she flirted with Billy Bob. The body of Billy Bob was found the next day and, two weeks later, Susan's body, buried under the 50-yard line of the football field. As a ghost it is harmless, but you can hear it calling from the cellar, which attracts people downstairs. -
The
Withered Lover (Kathryn Anderson): Jean Kriticos was Arthur's wife who was seriously injured in the house fire six months ago and later died of her injuries in St. Luke's Hospital. As a ghost, she wears a hospital shirt and pulls a drip with her. -
The Torn Prince ( Craig Olejnik ):
Royce Clayton was the celebrated baseball star at his school in 1953. One night he messed with a speedster and challenged an obstacle race. Because of a cut brake line, he could no longer brake and died in the race. As a ghost, he still wears his baseball jacket and hits people with his bat. -
The Angry Princess (Shawna Loyer):
Dana Newman was a young plastic surgeon and was beautiful, which she couldn't find herself. She always wanted to be prettier and even tried to operate on her own eye once, but the operation failed and Dana went blind in the eye. She later committed suicide in the bathtub because of feelings of inferiority. As a ghost, she is still naked and carries the knife with which she committed suicide. -
The Pilgrim (Xantha Radley):
Isabella Smith lived during the colonial days and was an outsider. When the cattle die-off began, she was blamed and locked in a barn, which was then set on fire. Isabella escaped, but was caught again and pilloried, where she died. As a ghost, she bears the wooden pillory and scares people. - The big child ...
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... and the hideous mother (C. Ernst Harth and Laurie Soper):
Harold and Margaret Shelburne lived at a fair as an attraction. Harold was fed like a toddler by his mother all his life. When Margaret was kidnapped and murdered one day, Harold took revenge on the murderers, but he died because no one was feeding him. As a ghost, Margaret is still feeding Harold and he still has the ax he used to kill his mother's killers. -
The Hammer (Herbert Duncanson):
George Markley was a blacksmith in the early 20th century. He was charged with theft, and as a result, his wife and daughter were murdered. George took revenge, killed his family's murderers, but was then hanged from a tree and driven with metal nails through his entire body. As a ghost, the big nails are in his flesh and he hits his victims with his "hammer fist". -
The Jackal (Shayne Wyler):
Ryan Kuhn was born in 1887 to a prostitute. As he got older, his appetite for women grew and he bit several prostitutes to death. After the murders, he was admitted to a clinic, where he was put in a straitjacket and later given a metal cage around his head because he chewed on the jacket. In the event of a fire in the clinic, he voluntarily wanted to stay behind and died. As a ghost, he is as fast and nimble as a predator and attacks his victims with his broken fingernails. He is the sign of winter in hell. -
The Moloch ( John DeSantis ):
Horace "Breaker" Mahoney was rejected by his mother as a baby and bullied by others because of his size as a child. He lived in the junkyard with his father. When his father died, Horace had to live alone in the junkyard, which drove him insane. He killed women and later men, tore them up and fed the pieces to his dogs. The police suspected him and arrested him, but he destroyed the handcuffs and killed three policemen. The Swat squad moved in and shot about 50 bullets into Horace's body. As a ghost, he wears his torn clothes and you can see the gunshot wounds. He lifts his victims and breaks all their bones.
synchronization
The synchronization took place at RC Production Rasema Cibic in Berlin based on a dialogue book by Nadine Geist and directed by Joachim Tennstedt .
| role | actor | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Kriticos | Tony Shalhoub | Frank-Otto Schenk |
| Ben Moss | JR Bourne | David Nathan |
| Bobby Kriticos | Alec Roberts | Lucas Mertens |
| Jean Kriticos | Kathryn Anderson | Denise Gorzelanny |
| Kalina | Embeth Davidtz | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues |
| Kathy Kriticos | Shannon Elizabeth | Marie Bierstedt |
| Maggie | Rah Diggah | Anke Reitzenstein |
| Uncle Cyrus | F. Murray Abraham | Joachim Kerzel |
| Rafkin | Matthew Lillard | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
Reviews
“ Visually sometimes very drastic, formally sometimes quite remarkable horror film, which mainly achieves its effect through the décor, but suffers from blatant script weaknesses and poor character drawing. "
“ The filmmakers enjoy the deliberate refusal of quality, while the B-picture flair of the sixties is experiencing its renaissance. Two years ago, the producer duo Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis brought the remake of a William Castle classic to cinemas with ' Haunted Hill ' . Castle, a classic low-budget director, also provided the template for '13 Geister 'with' Das eheimliche Erbe ', which Silver and Zemeckis entrusted to effects specialist Steve Beck for his directorial debut. However, Beck was unable to put much more into the picture than his elaborate set design. The striking retro style alone has no entertainment value. "
Awards
The film was nominated for a Saturn Award 2002 in the category Best Horror Film. In total, the film was seen by 464,645 cinema-goers in Germany.
Individual evidence
- ^ Thirteen Ghosts (2001) . Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | 13 ghosts. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
- ↑ 13 ghosts. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Manfred Müller: "13 ghosts": devilish trash . In: SPIEGEL ONLINE . January 16, 2002. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ↑ 13 Geister on chartsurfer.de, accessed on December 13, 2017.
Web links
- 13 ghosts in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- 13 ghosts atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Official site (English)
- 13 ghosts in the German dubbing file
- Screenplay in daily script (English, .pdf document)