History Film / DeathShip

* BellyDancer: Lori is dressed as a bellydancer on a cruiser.

Not to be confused with ''Film/GhostShip'', even though both films' plots are based around the [[GhostShip trope of the same name]]. Nor should it be confused with the similarly-titled ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Twilight Zone]]'' [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E108DeathShip episode]].

''Death Ship'' is a 1980 British[=/=]Canadian horror film, directed by Alvin Rakoff (''Film/CityOnFire'') and starring Creator/GeorgeKennedy, Creator/RichardCrenna, Sally Ann Howes, Creator/NickMancuso, Victoria Burgoyne, Kate Reid, and Creator/SaulRubinek.

* CameBackWrong: Captain Ashland drowns in the initial sinking, and then gets possessed by ghost of the Death Ship's former commanding officer.

** The ship's entertainer Jackie gets his foot seized by one of the ship's cables and is swung overboard by one of its cranes, which then cuts him loose, leaving him to drown.
** Ms. Morgan's body begins rapidly decomposing after consuming a piece of hard candy, after which Ashland strangles her.
** Lori is seemingly scalded to death in the shower before Ashland throws her overboard.
** Nick plunges into a net holding hundreds of skeletons, where Ashland drowns him.

* JumpScare: As the survivors drift out to sea on a piece of wreckage, a human hand suddenly emerges from the water. Fortunately it turns out to be Captain Ashland.

* SuperDrowningSkills: Neither Jackie nor Nick make any attempt to stop themselves from drowning when they're being hoisted into the water. Then again, by that point they're probably paralyzed by fear.

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''Death Ship'' is a 1980 British[=/=]Canadian horror film, directed by Alvin Rakoff (''Film/CityOnFire'') and starring Creator/GeorgeKennedy, Creator/RichardCrenna, and Creator/NickMancuso.

* BodyHorror: After consuming a piece of hard candy from one of the ship's cupboards, Ms. Morgan's skin suddenly starts to rot away as she herself begins to bloat beyond recognition. Panicking, she heads for the bunk room, where the now-possessed Captain Ashland strangles her to death.

''Death Ship'' is a 1980 British[=/=]Canadian horror film, directed by Alvin Rakoff (''Film/CityOnFire'') and starring Creator/GeorgeKennedy, Richard Crenna, and Creator/NickMancuso.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: The ship's entertainer Jackie, played by Creator/SaulRubinek. Which, given the Death Ship's Nazi affiliation, may explain why he is the first of the seven survivors to die.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Marshall and his family manage to escape the Death Ship and are eventually found by the Coast Guard, but Captain Ashland and all the other survivors are dead, and Marshall and his family will likely be scarred for life mentally as a result of their ordeal. And as the final scene indicates, they will not be the phantom freighter's last victims...]]

* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The final shot shows another cruise ship about to be sunk by the Death Ship.]]

* RailingKill: In a failed attempt to regain control over the ship and stop Marshall from escaping in a life raft after the ship finds a new target, Ashland starts shooting at the machinery, [[spoiler:only to slip and fall into the ship's steering gear, crushing him to death]].
* RainOfBlood: As Lori starts [[ShowerScene taking her shower]], the water suddenly turns to blood, sending her into a state of shock.

* {{Retirony}}: Captain Ashland's last voyage does indeed end up becoming his last - [[spoiler:just not in the way he intended.]]

* ThoseWackyNazis: The eponymous vessel was originally used by them as a POW transport.

Not to be confused with ''Film/GhostShip'', even though both films' plots are based around the [[GhostShip trope of the same name]]. Nor should it be confused with the ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Twilight Zone]]'' [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E108DeathShip episode]] of the same name.

* MalevolentArchitecture: The interior of the ship is a veritable death trap full of items that it can use to inflict harm on those it sets its sights on.

As the film opens, the prickly Captain Ashland (Kennedy) is leading his cruise ship on his final voyage, attended by his replacement Trevor Marshall (Crenna), who has brought along his family. Unknown the Ashland and his passengers, a mysterious black freighter is on a collision course. Despite the crew's best efforts, the two vessels collide and the cruise ship is lost with all hands, save for seven survivors. When they reach the freighter, the survivors [[FromBadToWorse discover they have a much worse fate in store for them]] - the ship is a former Nazi POW transport with a mind of its own. As it sails to an unknown destination, the survivors realize that ''something'' is intent on destroying them in the most horrifying ways possible...

Not to be confused with ''Film/GhostShip'', even though both films' plots are based around the [[GhostShip trope of the same name]]. Nor should it be confused with the ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Twilight Zone]]'' episode of the same name.

Not to be confused with ''Film/GhostShip'', even though both films' plots are based around the [[GhostShip trope of the same name]]. Nor should it be confused with the ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]'' episode of the same name.

Not to be confused with ''Film/GhostShip'', even though both films' plots are based around the [[GhostShip trope of the same name]].

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* ImprobaleInfantSurvival: Marshall's children Ben and Robin are among the initial group of survivors and [[spoiler: in the end are among the few who survive the events of the film]]. [[SubvertedTrope That being said]], it is very likely that those killed in the cruise ship's sinking included plenty of children.

As the film opens, the prickly Captain Ashland (Kennedy) is leading his cruise ship on his final voyage, attended by his replacement Trevor Marshall (Crenna), who has brought along his family. Unknown the Ashland and his passengers, a mysterious black freighter is on a collision course. Despite the crew's best efforts, the two vessels collide and the cruise ship is lost with all hands, save for seven survivors. When they reach the freighter, the survivors [[discover they have a much worse fate in store for them - the ship is a former Nazi POW transport with a mind of its own. As it sails to an unknown destination, the survivors realize that ''something'' is intent on destroying them in the most horrifying ways possible...

* BittersweetEnding: [[Marshall and his family manage to escape the Death Ship and are eventually found by the Coast Guard, but Captain Ashland and all the other survivors are dead, and Marshall and his family will likely be scarred for life mentally as a result of their ordeal. And as the final scene indicates, they will not be the phantom freighter's last victims...]]

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