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Thir13en Ghosts: Directed by Steve Beck. With Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth. When Cyrus Kriticos, a very rich collector of unique things, dies, he leaves his house, fortune, and his prized collection of ghosts.
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- Fantasy, Horror
- Steve Beck
- 2001-10-26
Thirteen Ghosts is a 2001 horror film and a remake of the 1960 film of the same name. It follows a family who inherits a haunted mansion with 12 angry ghosts trapped inside, and the plot to create a 13th ghost to activate a machine that can see the past, present and future.
- The Black Zodiac: Why There Are 12 Ghosts in 13 Ghosts Explained
- The First Born Son
- The Torso
- The Bound Woman
- The Withered Lover
- The Torn Prince
- The Angry Princess
- The Pilgrimess
- The Great Child & The Dire Mother
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Cyrus Needed 13 Ghosts To Open Gain Powers From Hell
13 Ghosts' culminates when Cyrus Kriticos' "Basileus's Machine" begins to open up the Ocularis Infernum, which would grant Cyrus powers from Hell. The only way Cyrus could get the machine to work is if the spirits of the Black Zodiac were made complete. Cyrus had gathered all the ghoststo achieve his goal since the Ocularis Infernum would only open if the machine were powered by the spirits. Their presence not only powers Cyrus' machine itself but also helps power the mansion. All the ghosts...
Billy Was Killed By Another Child
Of all the ghosts in 13 Ghosts, The First Born Son has one of the most sympathetic and tragic backstories. It would be unfair to label him as being an outright malevolent spirit like some other ghosts in the Black Zodiac. The First Born Son was a boy named Billy Michaels who had an unhealthy obsession with pop culture involving cowboys and Indigenous Peoples. Any attempt to rip him away from his fantasy life would earn rage, but that didn't protect Billy from a real arrow fired into his head...
Jimmy Gambino Was Killed By Gangsters
Out of all the ghosts in 13 Ghosts, The Torso is the only one whose name directly describes what he is: a disembodied torso wrapped in cellophane. Before dying, the torso was part of a compulsive gambler named Jimmy Gambino. He was also a bookie, but his own gambling prevented him from being able to pay out the winnings of a "made man" in the mob. Goons killed Jimmy and dumped his remains into the ocean. Aside from having one of the most interesting 13 Ghosts backstories, The Torso is easily...
Her Boyfriend Killer Her For Cheating
The Bound Woman is one of the Black Zodiac that 13 Ghosts devotes notably less screen time to and gives less exposition on. The Bound Woman was named Susan LeGrow and had a privileged upbringing. She was a rich, popular cheerleader who dated the captain of the school football team. That was until the captain found her with another boy on prom night and had a rather horrific reaction, bludgeoning his romantic rival to death and strangling Susan with his own tie. Like the First Born Son and the...
Jean Was Arthur's Dead Wife
The Withered Lover is one ghost in 13 Ghosts that's not a threat to the Kriticos family once they get trapped inside Cyrus' house of horrors due to her particularly tragic backstory. Cyrus found his ghost for The Withered Lover segment of the Black Zodiac from his own family. She was Jean Kriticos, the wife of protagonist Arthurand the mother of his children, Kathy and Bobby. Jean died in a house fire that the rest of her family survived, and it's the only one of the ghosts' backstories that'...
Killed In A Car Accident
The threat of the Torn Prince's can be missed when compared to the likes of The Jackal and The Juggernaut. The Torn Prince was a high school baseball star in the late 1950s, explaining the ever-present baseball bat weapon that he'll happily use to attack any of 13 Ghosts' living characters. Named Royce Clayton in life, The Torn Prince died during a drag race, after losing control of his car in a horrific accident. He shouldn't blame himself though since his opponent had secretly tampered with...
She Died By Suicide
Like The First Born Son and The Bound Woman, The Angry Princess's backstory is tragic and makes her a figure of empathy as much as fear. Born Dana Newman, The Angry Princess was an incredibly beautiful woman by all standards but her own. Sadly, she was unable to be happy with her looks, seeing imperfections others didn't,and constantly trying to improve her appearance through surgery. After a self-administered but botched facial surgery left her disfigured, Dana died by suicide. In 13 Ghosts,...
She Was Starved To Death After Being Accused Of Witchcraft
Named Isabella Smith, The Pilgrimess was a victim of the Salem witch trial hysteria that gripped New England in the late 1600s. A local outcast, Isabella was accused of witchcraft, and when an attempted burning didn't work, the perception that she was evil only increased. In the end, The Pilgrimess was left to slowly die of starvation in the stocks her ghost remains locked in when she becomes one of the Black Zodiac in 13 Ghosts. She's one of the oldest ghosts trapped in the mansion and feels...
He & His Mother Were Killed In A Carnival
The Great Child and The Dire Mother are among the creepiest of the ghosts. Margaret Shelburne was a woman with dwarfism who worked in an American Horror Story: Freak Show style carnival show. Her enormous son Harold was the result of a sexual assault by the carnival's tallest member of the freak troupe. Some of the other freaks later murdered Margaret,leading Harold to go crazy with an ax and kill most of them before he was killed by an angry mob. These ghosts in 13 Ghosts, especiallyThe Grea...
Learn about the 13 ghosts in the 2001 horror film 13 Ghosts, also known as Thir13n Ghosts or Thirteen Ghosts. Discover their backstories, designs, powers, and how they are connected to the Ocularis Infernum and Cyrus Kriticos.
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- The First Born Son. Representing the loss of the firstborn male typically seen throughout scripture, ghost hunter Cyrus Kriticos captured the spirit of Billy Michaels.
- The Torso. Loosely based on the victims of the real-life Cleveland Torso Murders, The Torso is the captured spirit of Jimmy "The Gambler" Gambino. With a name that feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy, Gambino had a terrible gambling addiction, sacrificing his schooling for visits to the racetrack and late-night gambling in dive bars.
- The Bound Woman. With a story resembling a typical urban legend shared around a campfire, the Bound Woman centers on the ghost of Susan LeGrow. A privileged teenager, Susan was the daughter of the wealthiest family in town and a proud member of her school's cheerleading squad.
- The Withered Lover. If you're looking for a scare, look elsewhere, as the story of the Withered Lover is one of tragedy. Jean Kriticos was the loving wife of Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub) and the mother of their children Bobby and Kathy.
A state-of-the-art remake of the classic William Castle horror film about a family that inherits a spectacular old house from an eccentric uncle....
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Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
