Nigel P Otherwise known as 'Alarmed', this story takes a long time to get going. In fact, for a while, it is difficult to imagine it developing into a horror film at all. Jennifer Stuckart plays lead Samantha neither as a screaming damsel in distress or as a traditionally sassy no-nonsense 'final girl'. She is simply an intelligent woman caught up in a spiral of very odd events.The boat itself seems to be trying to get Samantha to confront the truth regarding the death of her family some years earlier. It does this by separating her from boyfriend Mark (Brian Rife) by locking him out of the cabin area with her on the inside. And there he stays (vast bulks of his dialogue consists of urgent pleas: 'Sam, look at me, stay with me, Sam' ad nauseum). Nothing Sam does has any effect on the machinations of the 'ghost boat' (as a SPOILER, she is instructed to harm herself again and again, which she resists. When her allotted time runs out, the 'boat' forces her to do it anyway). After every episode, we appear to go back to beginning again.Unfortunately, things quickly become wearisome. Or to be more precise, things SLOWLY become tedious, because nothing happens with much urgency at all. Despite the admirably restrained playing of the cast, we appear to be waiting for something to happen and resisting the urge to go and do something else instead. Director (and writer) Matt Lofgren occasionally injects the dullness with feeling of tension (moments that are very reliant on the performances more than anything else) but it isn't enough to lift events from tedium.The boat itself looks lovely, but there is no sense of remoteness and no dark corners conducive to a haunting, or whatever it is that's happening here. The cast deserved better, sadly.

Leofwine_draca I caught this low budget horror/thriller on Amazon Prime under the title GHOST BOAT. The story is about a girl trapped on a boat who finds herself in some kind of time loop in which she's forced to suffer indignity after indignity, time and again. The obvious inspiration is the Melissa George film TRIANGLE, of which this is a huge rip-off, and it's not interesting at all. The low budget means that much of the incident is purely psychological and although the cinematography is professional, the narrative is fragmented and annoyingly disjointed.

Platypuschow Alarmed otherwise known as Ghost Boat is one of existential messy horror films that you walk away from feeling like nothing really happened. Kind of like Dallas, watching an entire season then getting told huzzah that season was all a dream! Not a slap in the face to the viewer at all, no spoilers here though the issue isn't a "Dream" I simply use that comparison because of the way you are left feeling at the end.The movie is criminally boring and plays out like a scyfy original but without the awful yet charming CGI.After watching the film I went to my shed, pulled out paint tins and poured some onto the floor then sat comfortably and watched the paint dry. I can confirm that this was more exciting than Alarmed/Ghost Boat.The fact that ants were drawn to the paint and held a bloody battle royale for the hand of the sweet maiden cockroach did make the comparison unfair but all the same I'd far rather watch Sir Anthony the ant run his rival Adam the ant through with a leaf stalk than 5 minutes more of that moronic drivel.

msmchug This film is very strange from the offset. The story is about Samantha, once accused of killing her own family. Five years later and while on the family yacht she gets trapped in some sick boat hell time loop. Every night the boat alarm system comes to life and commands her to attack, cut and stab at her own face and limbs (which she does). I couldn't really follow the story or work out who or why this was happening but it becomes clear at the end. The devil has kept her trapped on the hell boat, but as the mystery unravels you and the devil learn that it was Samantha's sister who killed the whole family. So the whole thing ends up being one big bad nightmare for Samantha and she awakes normal, before all of this happened.. A pardon from the devil! The movie ends with the devil going after the real killer (the sister) and starts to torture starts all over again - but for her there won't be a pardon, I found this movie to be a bit silly and disappointing. There well bits that reminded me of devil, or triangle but they were far superior to this. The effects were pretty bad. Ghosts wearing nighties etc. was an okay story but overall a let down and I would not recommend. I was glad when it finished.