Wearied passenger cruise captain Ashland (George Kennedy) is on his final trip and is tired of playing host to the tourists. His second-in-command Trevor Marshall (Richard Crenna) is set to take over his ship. A mysterious freighter relentlessly pursues the cruise ship until it rams and sinks it. The survivors climb aboard and find a disturbing death ship.
This has the bones of a good ghost ship B-movie. It would have been nice if the cruise ship is more like the Love Boat. The movie shows that the freighter is German and the machinery is 40 years old. It's not much of a leap to the Nazis. Someone should have found a room full of swastikas quickly after those two discoveries. Holding back that reveal gains no value. The blood shower has potential but the space is too confined to make it work. More could be done but this lacks the imagination.
This has the bones of a good ghost ship B-movie. It would have been nice if the cruise ship is more like the Love Boat. The movie shows that the freighter is German and the machinery is 40 years old. It's not much of a leap to the Nazis. Someone should have found a room full of swastikas quickly after those two discoveries. Holding back that reveal gains no value. The blood shower has potential but the space is too confined to make it work. More could be done but this lacks the imagination.