# "Ghost Ship": What happened to everyone at the dance? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265 "2005-04-20T17:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/21 "2005-04-21T22:20:25Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > You get to see Capser van Dien get sliced’n’diced in _Sleepy Hollow_ and that dull roar in the background is thousands of Heinlein fans cheering. It’s been a while since I saw that movie. How was the slice 'n dice Heinleinian? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/22 "2005-04-21T22:36:48Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > It’s been a while since I saw that movie. How was the slice 'n dice Heinleinian? Casper van Diem played the lead in the _Starship Troopers_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/23 "2005-04-21T23:27:18Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > I’m sorry but I really need to hijack here. I’ve always wondered, when someone says something like this - exactly how much room in your wallet would this take up? Do you use 1000 won bills or something? I hope this doesn’t make me sound really stupid but it has boggled my mind for a long long time. ::takes pity on **congodwarf’s** boggling mind:: Korean won is printed in 1000, 5000, and 10,000 bills. The thou bill is basically like a dollar bill in the US. Our coins are 10, 50, 100, and 500. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/24 "2005-04-21T23:29:50Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Casper van Diem played the lead in the _Starship Troopers_ movie. And he’s the only reason that movie was bad. It’s allllllll his fault. :rolleyes: Not directed at Miller of course, but at all Heinlein fans who’ve villified Van Diem for the movie not living up to their expectations. If Van Diem should be villified for anything, it should be for his new REALITY SHOW. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/25 "2005-04-21T23:36:12Z")
Eh, I liked _Ghost Ship_-I like a good ghost story and the gore was pretty neat. (And the song in the opening, sung by Monica Mancini was beautiful.) I wasn’t doubting that a cable like that could cut through a single person, but all those people at once? That was so creepy. (And how their bodies were still moving, and there was a guy crawling around with nothing below the waist?) ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/26 "2005-04-21T23:39:05Z")
> [@Ooner](#): > > I knew I was going to hate the movie based just on that scene. The first appearance of people being quickly sliced into pieces and then falling apart I saw was in Cube, where it was well done and pretty cool. Then Resident Evil did it too and it was a pretty cool scene as well. > > And then I saw Ghost Ship, where it was completely predictable and shot so poorly that now we’re here asking “hey wtf just happened.” Not only was it a stale idea, it was a stale idea that was executed so very poorly compared to earlier versions of it. I can’t remember which movie it was (perhaps some kind soul will be along shortly to help), but I seem to recall some haunted house-type movie (from the mid-80s or thereabouts) where one of the victims was in a room (the basement?) and couldn’t get out, neither door nor windows. Then, the top half of one of the windows eases down, offering him escape. The poor sap doesn’t take long to start scrambling out the window, only to have that mean ol’ house SLAM the framed window pane back up again, squeezing him in the middle and quickly cutting him in half. His upper half twitching on the ground outside is something I can still remember. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/27 "2005-04-22T20:15:20Z")
Let’s not forget the elevator cable scene from “Damien: Omen II”. (1978) Anyone got an earlier “sliced-in-half(or more pieces)-with-a-steel-cable” gore scene? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/28 "2005-04-22T20:45:08Z")
There was a Killer Cable scene in _Die Hard 3_, too. They played it for laughs - funniest joke in the film. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/29 "2005-04-22T21:09:17Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > I can’t remember which movie it was (perhaps some kind soul will be along shortly to help), but I seem to recall some haunted house-type movie (from the mid-80s or thereabouts) where one of the victims was in a room (the basement?) and couldn’t get out, neither door nor windows. Then, the top half of one of the windows eases down, offering him escape. The poor sap doesn’t take long to start scrambling out the window, only to have that mean ol’ house SLAM the framed window pane back up again, squeezing him in the middle and quickly cutting him in half. His upper half twitching on the ground outside is something I can still remember. [The People Under the Stairs](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105121/) ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/30 "2005-04-22T21:11:24Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > [The People Under the Stairs](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105121/) [The People Under the Stairs?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105121/) Meant to add a ? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/31 "2005-04-23T01:27:11Z")
Lets not forget the episode of Southpark where the cable cuts through the crowd at Butters dance recital. ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/32 "2005-04-23T11:54:01Z")
I have always found that slicing scene in **Thirteen Ghosts** incredibly creepy. Much more horrifying though, was that scene in **The Cell** where a horse gets sliced into several pieces like a freakin’ loaf of bread. The animal convulsed for a moment before all its pieces slid to the floor. I tell you, the images from that sequence were burned into my skull for several days. ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/33 "2005-04-23T18:25:35Z")
Mods plz retitle this thread “Name movies where people get sliced up alive” Somebody mentioned The Omen II but didn’t something similar happen in the original Omen, a man decapitated by a sheet of glass or something? It’s not a steel cable, and he doesn’t stay alive for a second after, so… ok. I guess that one doesn’t count at all. I had forgotten about Final Destination 2 but it is maybe the goriest one I remember. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265/34 "2005-04-23T18:47:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Much more horrifying though, was that scene in The Cell where I think you have the scene wrong. It is sliced up like that, but more like each slice is between glass panes. I don’t recal it dropping down; it was simply spread out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-ship-what-happened-to-everyone-at-the-dance/300265.md?page=1)