History Film / GhostShip

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The ''Series/MythBusters'' tested out the film's opening scene and found that in reality, it's not feasibly possible for a snapped steel cable to slice a whole group of people in two. It would certainly inflict nasty injuries -- potentially even lethal, if you were unlucky enough to have the cable slice open an artery -- on anyone who was directly in the cable's path, but it would travel no further than anyone who was struck.

* LastNoteNightmare: The film's score on the soundtrack titled [[https://youtu.be/Pt24zcUtESk "The Souls Ascend"]], which is the hauntingly beautiful score in which [[spoiler:Epps defeats Ferriman, frees all the lost souls trapped on the ''Graza'', and is later rescued by a passing ship]]. The score gently fades, as if to say the worst is finally over... but NOPE! We're suddenly greeted by a blaring ScareChord to indicate the film's [[TwistEnding ending]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: Possibly to Beck's previous film ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'' (2001) as they were made by the same director and production company, have the same camerawork and editing style and themes of the supernatural, self-sacrifice and so on. Also, people getting [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sliced in half]] by unusual means.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sure, Epps may have saved all the souls onboard the ''Graza'' and survived, but Ferriman still exists - and members of the crew are carrying ''another'' load of unmarked gold bars onto the cruise ship that rescued her before her eyes just before the credits roll. HereWeGoAgain]]

* LastNoteNightmare: * The film’s score on the soundtrack titled [[https://youtu.be/Pt24zcUtESk "The Souls Ascend"]], which is the hauntingly beautiful score in which [[spoiler:Epps defeats Ferriman, frees all the lost souls trapped on the ''Graza'', and is later rescued by a passing ship]]. The score gently fades, as if to say the worst is finally over... but NOPE! We’re suddenly greeted by a blaring ScareChord to indicate the film’s [[TwistEnding ending]].
** Funny enough, the ScareChord isn’t in the film proper, but we still get MoodWhiplash as the score suddenly cuts to Music/{{Mudvayne}}’s "Not Falling".

* {{Lust}}: Francesca uses her allure to drive men to murder for her, or [[spoiler:[[DeathBySex unwittingly kill themselves trying to have sex with her]] when she's dead]].

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Ferriman was already planning to kill all of the crew anyways, but Murphy discovering a picture of him dated in 1962 from the ''Graza’s'' captain’s ghost, who informs him that Ferriman was the only survivor on the ''Lorelei'' and was the one who gave them the gold makes him realize what is really going on, so Ferriman gets rid of him immediately by making Murphy appear to be insane to the crew and then drowning him afterwards so he can’t tell them]].

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Ferriman was already planning to kill all of the crew anyways, but Murphy discovering a picture of him dated in 1962 from the ''Graza’s'' captain’s ghost, who informs him that Ferriman was the only survivor on the ''Lorelei'' who drove them to murder makes him realize what is really going on, so Ferriman gets rid of him immediately by making Murphy appear to be insane to the crew and then drowning him afterwards so he can’t tell them]].

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Ferriman was already planning to kill all of the crew anyways, but Murphy discovering a picture of him dated in 1962 from the ''Graza’s'' captain’s ghost, who informs him that Ferriman pretended to be the only survivor on the ''Lorelei'' makes him realize what is really going on, so Ferriman gets rid of him immediately by making Murphy appear to be insane to the crew and then drowning him afterwards so he can’t tell them]].