As scary Halloween movies go, Thirteen Ghosts' "Oh, please" factor is pretty darn high.
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Boston Globe
Boston Globe
A formulaic script, a tired plot -- and uninspired dialogue all point up the real star. It's the house,
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New York PostJonathan Foreman
New York PostJonathan Foreman
What follows is very gruesome indeed, though the footage of people being chased by hideous ghosts soon becomes rather dull.
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The physical look of the picture is splendid. The screenplay is dead on arrival. The noise level is torture.
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Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The movie's one good performance is given by the house, full of ominous inscriptions, inscrutable chambers, and fiendish machines. The human characters are played with various degrees of manic overacting.
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Miami HeraldCharles Savage
Miami HeraldCharles Savage
The set design of Thirteen Ghosts may have been expensive, but its thrills are cheap.
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Washington PostDesson Thomson
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Tries to combine humor with ghostly horror but excels at neither.
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L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
A brutish affair replete with sliced bodies, a diced storyline and enough clanky dialogue to wake the dead.
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Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Offers so much frenetic fast cutting to so little purpose that it becomes an ordeal.