Cheesy and uninteresting.

Rating: 2/10 (16 June 2014)

This wasn't a terrible film as far as movies go. I love SciFi and I don't mind SciFi horror but this movie just was not that great.
The plot is that a crew is sent off to check out a ship which magically came back from who knows where. Hilarity ensues.
As it turns out the ship is, for lack of a better word, haunted. The old crew is dead and now the ship wants a new crew which it is finding in the people sent to investigate. The CG might have been decent at the time but come off as cheesy. There is a distinctive claymation scene, or possibly terrible CG scene, which had me cracking up.
There is gore. Lots and lots of gore. The creepiest parts don't show the ultra violence which is more or less a blessing since that sort of thing just creeps me out and is more or less unnecessary. The gore is not too memorable as far as it goes but a few scenes should have you at least surprised that they managed to use that much ketchup.
--So here is where it falls flat and this is the spoilers section.-- Everything scary happens in extremely predictable ways. When someone goes off alone (despite being on a haunted ghost ship with literally the entire old crew dead by murdering themselves) that is when it gets spooky, every single time. It is so formulaic as to be funny. "Oh, there goes another character running off after something." and BAM... the ship essentially kills or terrifies the crew member AGAIN.
My favorite line was "What HAPPENED to your EYES!?" "Where we're going, you won't need eyes to see." and apparently they were going to "hell" which you never actually saw. Funny but not all that scary. By the time the 3rd crew member was running off alone after having 2 other dead crew members I started to pretend that they were really going out to Michaels to pick up some crafts to make the ship happy. As it turns out the ship became corrupted on the trip to "hell". There wasn't even an AI to corrupt, it was just the physical ship that was corrupted. I didn't know that was even possible, even in SciFi but it is or was and the ship is now trying to murder everyone on board but somehow failing miserably.
Actually this was something I didn't understand. If the ship was actually sentient and wanted to murder the whole crew just open an airlock. If the ship wasn't sentient and just horrible things continued to happen to the crew, how come there bodies are not impaled on all of the wonderfully placed locations... you know... by accident? It seemed like the ship wanted to just punish the crew without killing them by killing them in new and profound ways.
By the time the ultra scary part happens where they start flashing creepy or scary things at you rapidly I lost all interest in the movie. I suppose that the flashing of creepy things SHOULD scare people but by that point, you have already seen a few scenes from "Silence of the Lambs" so the rapid maggot scenes really fell flat.
I will give it props for having a woman and a Black man survive at the end. That was honestly most unexpected since I sat back waiting for each person to be knocked off in turn and really just expected the whole new crew to die screaming.
If you find this scary, then you are not use to SciFi in this particular genre or you are shocked by formulaic horror. The dialogue is terrible. The gore is semi-realistic in parts but not really when it counted. I still wonder where all that blood came from which flooded the bit of the ship at the end. Also... see "The Shining" for that particular scene. It just felt like it was ripping off other GREAT movies and left me waiting for it to just end.