The Queen Mary

The Queen Mary

When photographers Erin and Patrick are brought aboard the ship with their young son Lukas, they unleash a series of events that entwines their family with the ship’s dark past. As the terror unfolds around them they begin to realise there is more to this sumptuous ocean liner than meets the eye: its remarkable legacy masking violent secrets.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 124 minutes
  • Genre: Horror, Thrillers
  • Stars: Alice Eve, Joel Fry, Nell Hudson, Angus Wright, Jim Piddock, William Shockley, Tim Downie, Lenny Rush, Alfredo Tavares, Mark Silverman, Joelle Koissi, Wil Coban, Russell MacLeod, Tiffany Ashton, Florrie Wilkinson, Matthew David McCarthy, Cory Dagg, Ross Cullum, Luca Barbarossa, Adam Grayson
  • Director: Gary Shore
 Comments
  • benrig89 - 1 June 2024
    An all time great ruined by bad editing
    In the 1970s, there was a spate of horror films that had bad acting, bad dialogue, bad a lot of things, but there was something about them that was...timeless and memorable. Triology of Terror, Hell house, Let's Scare Jessica To Death, The Omen, Burnt Offerings, the list goes on. All of them had at least some one singular flaw that objectively should have ruined the movie.

    There was something about that time period of horror that transcended cinematic notions about 'quality' that makes them memorable and celebrated even to today.

    This feels like one of those films that one day may fit neatly into that category. It's full of gorgeous cinematography, decent acting, some of the best slasher style scenes ever put to a movie since The Shining, and shows some decent knowledge of the time period it's trying to emulate (the 1930s).

    Then you look at the story and it all falls apart. I had to watch this movie three times, and watch a youtube explanatory video, to understand what was going on here. I'm not stupid, I've seen a bazillion horror films, and this one still had me scratching my head. The main problem is that there is a very good and coherent story line buried under extremely bad editing and exposition.

    In the end, do I recommend watching this? Yes, absolutely. Even if you only watch it once, you'll still get a bang out of the incredible visuals, and one of the best ax murder scenes in horror film history. Good soundtrack too.

    But if you're trying to get to what the filmmakers were obviously trying to do (The Shining on a ship, to make it simple) you're in for a world of headache.

    With better editing and storytelling I would happily give this an 8 or 9 out of 10. I hold out hope that one day this will be considered a cult classic.
  • soelir - 7 February 2024
    It made no sense. Don't bother watching.
    I eventually watched this right the way through on my third attempt. I know, I deserve to never be allowed to watch anything ever again.

    It started off ok, except for the dodgy accents, and like others have said it looked good. But it was such a horrific mess.

    On the first two attempts I figured I was too tired to follow the plot and must have missed something obvious. I definitely didn't.

    There's just too many things going on.

    So, there's a murderer who was sacrificed to allow the ship to never sink. He then went into someone else's body to go about murdering and trying to get off the ship. Instead of just getting off the ship with no fuss.

    Then he's still hanging about in the captain? Or the captains from each time all know and keep quiet?

    Then everyone who has ever died is trapped there, but you only see a few of them?

    And the second mom laughs because she gets it in the back of the police car, but we don't know what she gets.

    The little girl is still wandering about and saved the boy, but the mom killed the boy when they were at home?

    The guy threw away the evidence before they left the boat after gleefully buying a picture of the little girl?!?!

    Seriously, something went wrong somewhere and the result is a hot mess.

    3/10 is being overly generous and I'm a generous scorer.

    I like the kids in this. They don't deserve to have their future reputations tarnished by this drivel.

    Marking this as spoilers even though it's impossible to spoil this film more.
  • Sleepin_Dragon - 24 January 2024
    The best thing would be for this to sink without a trace.
    I truly wanted to watch and love this movie, from the trailer, I honestly thought I was in for something good, then I saw the rating, foolishly I gave it a go, and wish I hadn't.

    Imagine remaking Ghostship, only very badly, that story of past atrocities blurring into modern day, only it worked incredibly well on that horror classic, whereas this one sank without a trace.

    I could watch Lenny Rush in anything, I think he's truly brilliant, and he does stand out by a mile, so much talent, as does Wesley Alfvin, who's wasted in this.

    The script is garbage, and the plot is so muddled and confused, that I at no point had any clue as to what was happening, it was absolutely all over the place, and impossible to follow, you'll genuinely lose interest or get frustrated.

    On the plus side, it looks nice, I loved some of the sets and fashions, but all of that is marred by the incompressible story and shocking American accents.

    A clunker.

    3/10.