Today’s Horror on the Lens comes to use from 1980.  In Death Ship, a cruise ship collides with a mysterious black freighter.  When the survivors board the freighter, they discover that it appears to be deserted.  But is it really?  As the survivors explore, they start to suspect that they might not be alone.  Even worse, the already unstable captain (George Kennedy) starts to hear a mysterious German voice, encouraging him to kill everyone else and stay on the freighter forever.

It’s kinda like The Shining, except it takes place on a boat and it’s not as good.

But then again, very few horror films are as good as The Shining!  Death Ship is an enjoyably pulpy exercise in ghostly horror and it can actually be quite scary, especially if you have an obsessive fear of drowning, like I do!

Plus, George Kennedy really puts his heart and soul into being possessed.

Watch Death Ship below!