Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.
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GoodWatch score 72March 7, 1980 · 1 h 31 min · R
Contrived Coincidence, Super-Persistent Missile, Dem Bones +9
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In the United States, Death Ship streams on Prime, Screambox, Midnight Pulp, and Kino Film Collection, and it is free with ads on FlixHouse, Cineverse, and Tubi TV. You can rent or buy it from Apple TV Store. It also streams in 8 other countries.
Reviews are weak, with a GoodWatch score of 32 (IMDb 4.8, Rotten Tomatoes 33%, and Metacritic 10). Audiences rate it higher (42 out of 100) than critics (22).
Yes, it's frightening: scares are rated 8 of 10, and some images are gruesome (grotesque 8 of 10).
Probably not: the title analysis rates it 9 of 10 for bleakness and 6 for melancholy, against 1 for hopefulness.
TV Tropes lists 36 tropes for it, including Contrived Coincidence, Super-Persistent Missile, and Dem Bones.
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