Interesteg What makes it different from others?

ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Smoreni Zmaj To me, this episode was pretty freaky, but I think it's more to my fear of an open sea than to the quality of the film itself. The story isn't bad, but it doesn't bring anything new. Not only is the ghost practically copied from "The Ring", but the a complete plot is already seen more than once. However, the realization and acting are at a decent level, the film is tense and holds attention, and there are also a few quite interesting and terrifying scenes.6/10

Johnathan B Although I did enjoy the movie, it was nothing new. A woman with long hair is done wrong and now reeks pain and suffering on anyone who enters her house, oops, I mean space of water. Long hair getting into everything, possessions, did it or didn't it happen situations etcetera, etc. I did enjoy the movie like I said earlier, but I think it is time for J Horror to come up with something new. Expand the genre. Didn't care much for the the DVD extras either by the way. By the standards out today, there is not an excuse to not have deleted scenes or bloopers or separate actor and director commentaries. What the original writer thought would have been nice. Use a camcorder if your worried about extra cost. If Brain Damaged movies can do it, they can too.

Paul Andrews Masters of Horror: Dream Cruise is set in Japan where American lawyer Jack Miller (Daniel Gillies) has a business meeting with a client named Eiji Sato (Ryo Ishibashi), Eiji insists they conduct their meeting on-board his yacht along with his wife Yuri (Yoshino Kimura). Jack has a problem with water as while he was a child he saw his brother Shawn (Ethan Amis) drown in a boating accident but he agrees to go anyway, once out in the open ocean Eiji starts to behave strangely taking them all further & further away from the coast & into the isolation of the sea. Then suddenly the yacht comes to a grinding halt as something has stuck to the propeller's, Eiji goes down to take a look at which point dark secrets return to haunt the three passengers...This Canadian, American & Japanese co-production was episode 13 from season 2 of the hit-and-miss Masters of Horror TV series, written & directed by Norio Tsuruta I didn't think Dream Cruise was anything special & overall a bit of a miss. The script was based on a story by Koji Suzuki who was responsible for the Asian horror Ringu & is your average ghost story so in that respect it holds no real surprises & is quite predictable. The storytelling & narrative are poor, why was Eiji taking them so far out into the middle of the ocean? Definitely not for what ended up happening that's for sure. The subplot about Jack's brother drowning is rammed into our faces at every opportunity & it becomes tiresome. I really hated the ending too, everything works out fine & way-hey Jack isn't afraid of the water anymore! Couldn't they have come up with something a bit better? This one moves along at a reasonable pace but it's hardly edge of your seat stuff, the character's are totally forgettable as is the dialogue which switches between English & Japanese. Dream Cruise just felt all wrong to me & while it was alright there are better Masters of Horror episodes.Director Tsuruta is someone I've personally never heard of but looking at his bio on the IMDb he seems to have made several straight-to-video titles & TV episodes within the horror genre although none of them are familiar to me. You know while watching Dream Cruise & knowing it was Japanese I sat there thinking so where's the long haired ghostly figure who moves in a funny way like those seen in the Ringu (1998) & The Grudge (2000) series of horror films & do you know what? My prediction was spot on as there is indeed a creepy long haired woman who moves in an odd way, oh dear been there, seen it before & brought the T-shirt. There's a few scares here that might make you jump but other than that there's little here to give you goosebumps. There's not much gore either, someone's arm falls off for no apparent reason & conveniently the arm of his jumper becomes detached at the same point too & there's a shot of someone with half their head missing but that's it.Technically I'd put Dream Cruise slightly below the usual Masters of Horror episode, it looks very bland & forgettable almost like a TV soap opera, there's no style or visual flair here & just looks plain cheap. The acting is alright although you suspect the use of English by Japanese & the casting of an American alongside two Japanese actor's was down to this being made to be shown in the US.Dream Cruise is an OK way to pass 60 odd minutes I suppose, I personally didn't like it that much though. Yet another disappointing Masters of Horror & not a good way to end the second season which overall hasn't been great, will there be a season three?

preppy-3 Young lawyer Jack (Daniel Gillies) was traumatized at a young age seeing a friend drown to death. Now he's sleeping with the wife (Yuri) of a client (Eiji) in Toyko. Eiji takes Jack and his wife out on his boat and clearly knows they're sleeping together. He plans revenge...but things suddenly go wrong.Starts out as a standard "husband kills unfaithful wife and lover" story but (during the last half hour) it switches gears totally and turns into a very eerie ghost story. Dead bodies pop up--body parts go flying--Jack and Yuri are attacked multiple times--it never stops for breath and gets more than a little scary. Good acting by the entire cast (especially Gillies) helps a lot. Fast and scary--a GREAT "Masters of Horror" episode.