# What movie (80s or 70s) involves a boat of people boarding a haunted ship

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**Created:** [April 30, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-80s-or-70s-involves-a-boat-of-people-boarding-a-haunted-ship/301903 "2005-04-30T23:23:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-80s-or-70s-involves-a-boat-of-people-boarding-a-haunted-ship/301903/1 "2005-04-30T23:23:40Z")

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I remember watching a movie when I was younger about a group of people finding an abandoned ship and boarding it. It was a large ship too, like the titanic and it was demon possessed and started killing off the people who boarded it I think the box of the movie has the ship with a jaws mouth painted on the front and all the people in a lifeboat in front of the ship. Does anyone know what movie this was?

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**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-80s-or-70s-involves-a-boat-of-people-boarding-a-haunted-ship/301903/2 "2005-04-30T23:39:39Z")

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> [@Wesley Clark](#):
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> I remember watching a movie when I was younger about a group of people finding an abandoned ship and boarding it. It was a large ship too, like the titanic and it was demon possessed and started killing off the people who boarded it I think the box of the movie has the ship with a jaws mouth painted on the front and all the people in a lifeboat in front of the ship. Does anyone know what movie this was?

Was it [Deathship](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080603/) ?

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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-80s-or-70s-involves-a-boat-of-people-boarding-a-haunted-ship/301903/3 "2005-05-01T01:32:25Z")

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> [@Ms Boods](#):
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> Was it [Deathship](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080603/) ?

I wonder if the recent flop [Ghost Ship](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288477/) was a remake? The plot summaries are rather different, but the posters look suspiciously similar.