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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Spectacularly stupid. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: For a movie called Thirteen Ghosts, this movie is surprisingly soulless. Read more
Charles Savage, Miami Herald: The set design of Thirteen Ghosts may have been expensive, but its thrills are cheap. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Beck directs a script so damaged it's a wonder that the Kriticos family and their annoying nanny (Rah Digga) don't escape through plot holes. Read more
Melanie McFarland, Seattle Times: Clever one-liners supplant the lack of frights with cackling -- which you might as well do since, by the end of the movie, it's clear that the joke's on you. Read more
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Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: While 13 Ghosts, a remake of Mr. Castle's 1960 haunted-house schlocker, isn't a bad movie per se, its austerity and predictability show what a cheesy genius the man was. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: A production so mammoth in its stupidity that it took two studios, Warner Brothers and Columbia Pictures, to wrestle it to the screen. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Mr. Showbiz: A nicely nasty Halloween treat. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Although not for the faint of heart, it's a potent -- and very tricky-treat. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: More bark than creepy bite. Read more
Entertainment Weekly: The drop-dead fact is, this ornate but eerily unspooky production is designed by Hollywood vampires and powered by demographics. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: By any objective accounting, Thirteen Ghosts is exactly a baker's dozen too many -- this is a zero of a film. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Like most horror movies that try to cash in on the mood of the Halloween season, this one has more corn than scares. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The experience of watching the film is literally painful. It hurts the eyes and ears. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: A B-grade horror picture seems to be a B-grade horror picture no matter how many studio bucks and digital effects you throw at it. Read more