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Haunting of the Mary Celeste (2020)-- My take on the movie with spoilers!

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Plot Summary: Rachel, a researcher, along with her colleagues, sets about to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the ship, Mary Celeste. 

We’ve all heard of the Bermuda Triangle and how there have been instances where ships and even planes have gone missing over a particular area.

This is the kind of thing that would make an interesting premise for a horror film, wouldn’t you think?

Haunting of the Mary Celeste touches upon this weird phenomenon and when you know you’re watching a movie about unexplained disappearances, you do get that no one is going to make it to the end of the movie, right?




HAUNTING OF THE MARY CELESTE Movie Plot 

The movie begins with Rachel’s nightmares of being in the water and seeing her daughter floating.

She is either a scientist or a researcher and wants to figure out the rift in a place similar to the Bermuda Triangle where things go missing.

Along with her colleagues Cassandra and Grant, Rachel wants to prove the anomaly of the rift that caused a merchant ship Mary Celeste to disappear.

They do a terrible job of hiring a boat and miss the one they intended to take. It is up to convince Tulls, an older man who has a rusty boat and his assistant Aldo, to take them on the journey. Tulls doesn’t care about contributing to science. He wants the money that Rachel is more than happy to give out because she doesn’t mind being poor but does mind not completing her research.

Tulls asks for a hefty sum and Rachel fails miserably at a negotiation. They are all set to sail and it isn’t long before we see ghosts behind the characters. The others don’t, but we viewers do.

Rachel continues to have nightmares and when the boat breaks down in the middle of the night, she has to pay Tulls more money to stop him from sending an SOS signal. The crew is pissed and Cassandra gives him a mean look but Tulls is old enough to prefer retirement money over being the generous guy.

Rachel realizes they are at the very coordinates where the ship disappeared. Soon enough the disappearances begin, the first one being Aldo who is catatonic for a while before he walks through a screen of water.

Then it is Grant and when Cassandra is sent to look for them on a boat, she is assumed to have gone missing too.

Strange lights, boats and ghostly visions run in the half an hour before finally, Tulls vanishes.





Haunting of the Mary Celeste Ending Explained with spoilers

Rachel sees her daughter in the water and goes to join her and embrace her. She’s gone too.

When day breaks, Cassandra boards the ship with the rescue team. No one can find the crew.

The end.

The movie had nothing essential going on and Tulls’ reaction to Rachel’s scientific theory is yawn-able. When Tulls shows a lack of interest in Rachel’s ramblings, we feel it too.

The only reason anyone would watch this movie is because of the poster that resembles the poster of Ghost Ship, a remarkable, genuinely scary movie with a good story.

Watch Ghost Ship instead.

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  1. Best Astrologer in CaliforniaOctober 12, 2021 at 1:25 AM

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  3. AnonymousNovember 23, 2023 at 4:41 AM

    What a shit review. I mean, the film was awful. But so is this. Fucks sake...

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2024 at 4:35 AM

    Explain why Rachel went there for her daughter, where did they all go, why did Cassandra survive at the end, why was this movie made with no explanation of all these questions? Why didn't the director make a pretty good movie until the end, where there was no explanation of anything 🤔

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