Haunting of the Queen Mary

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Haunting of the Queen Mary

2023

1h 54m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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In the early twentieth century, shipping lines competed to be the fastest to complete a transatlantic crossing. But among the most famous record-holders was the RMS Queen Mary, which held the record for fourteen years, but now stands encased in concrete at Long Beach, California, where it has been used for many years as a luxury hotel and tourist attraction. The ship has a lengthy history of visitors reporting seeing ghosts and visions in its rooms and on its decks, making it the perfect setting for paranormal goings-on on the big screen. In The Queen Mary, a haunting story is unraveled between the ship's heyday in the late 1930s and the present and tells the story of two families whose lives become violently entangled.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

Oct 4, 2023

2/5

There’s some real dramatic heft at play here – but the bloated running time drags it down, and lots of spooky business in the back half might have been better jettisoned overboard to gain speed.

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Philipp Engel

Cinemanía (Spain)

Dec 16, 2024

3/5

An elegant way to exploit the legend of a ship reduced to a fairground attraction.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

Dec 21, 2023

3.5/5

I enjoyed how DIFFERENT “Haunting of the Queen Mary” is, despite its flaws; the best I can say is that it's not generic, and that they should give more opportunities to both Alice Eve as a protagonist, and Gary Shore as a director. Full review in Spanish.

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Guillermo Courau

La Nación (Argentina)

Dec 14, 2023

3/5

Although it is far from being a genre masterpiece, Haunting of the Queen Mary comfortably meets the challenge of offering a simple but well-made movie. [Full review in Spanish]

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Oct 11, 2023

4/5

…Gary Shore’s well-upholstered film is more ghost story than horror, with twin narrative time-lines offering up something a little deeper than the usual jump-scares associated with the genre…

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Whang Yee Ling

The Straits Times (Singapore)

Sep 21, 2023

2/5

This supernatural voyage, although atmospheric and frequently frightful, runs aground narratively.

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Shyamolika D

@RT05800213 Sep 26, 2026

Any critic who likes this movie is an absolute twit. It was horrible. The director has no real vision whatsoever. At least terrible movies like Suburban Sasquatch has some heart to it and a followable plot. This movie was mayhem for the sake of mayhem. The idea of the movie could have been interesting but the director is garbage. He has no idea how parents interact with their children and just made a movie cause he might be some entitled weirdo. I’ve seen many of those in Hollywood. They think up these ideas without thinking of the why or how things might occur. What are the human emotions behind things besides "insanity" and the ship’s will to murder? Incoherent mess of a story. I’m offended.

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NIKOLAS T

@Ntetas Feb 8, 2026

Art only for the art. Not a good movie to see. Low quality of scenario and screenplay. 2 h lost of your/my life.

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Isaac O.

@IsaacOrtiz88 Jan 26, 2026

I like it it was pretty good

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Richard W

@RT65767935 Nov 11, 2025

It was just way too incoherent ,unfortunately all the bad reviews are correct here ,cant understand the high ratings

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Ry H.

@RyGuy Jul 23, 2025

I thought the idea of binding the ship with a serial killer was interesting but the movie as a whole was a sunken ship.

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Daniel J

@RT45995925 May 20, 2025

The movie is neither meat nor fish and unfortunately doesn't convince for a single moment. Alice Eve seems to have landed on B-movies in the meantime, her unwillingness to do so is permanently noticeable.

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In the early twentieth century, shipping lines competed to be the fastest to complete a transatlantic crossing. But among the most famous record-holders was the RMS Queen Mary, which held the record for fourteen years, but now stands encased in concrete at Long Beach, California, where it has been used for many years as a luxury hotel and tourist attraction. The ship has a lengthy history of visitors reporting seeing ghosts and visions in its rooms and on its decks, making it the perfect setting for paranormal goings-on on the big screen. In The Queen Mary, a haunting story is unraveled between the ship's heyday in the late 1930s and the present and tells the story of two families whose lives become violently entangled.

Director: Gary Shore
Producer: Brett Tomberlin, Thorsten Schumacher, Lars Sylvest, Nigel Sinclair, Nicholas Ferrall, Laurie Cook, Jason Newmark
Screenwriter: Stephen Oliver, Tom Vaughan, Gary Shore
Distributor: Vertical
Production Co: Creativity Capital, Imagination Design Works, BCP Asset Management, Bigscope Films, Trinity Media Films, Fulwell 73, Rocket Science, White Horse Pictures
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 18, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 17, 2023
Runtime: 1h 54m

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