Ghost Ship

In 2016, the media website ComingSoon named the film's opening scene one of the greatest in horror film history.

(at around 24 mins) Captain Murphy's story of the Mary Celeste is largely inaccurate. According to him, it was a two-mast brigantine leaving Charleston, South Carolina, during the American Civil War. She carried a load of cotton for London, England. Fishermen off the coast of Tripoli found the ship under sail with no one on board; its last log entry was 59 days prior. Somehow an unmanned ship sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean Sea.

In truth, the Mary Celeste left New York Harbor in late October 1872 with a cargo of 1,701 barrels of denatured alcohol bound for Genoa, Italy. She was found off the coast of Portugal, under sail yet abandoned, with its last log entry nine days before she was found.

The opening logos are tinted brown, and the typical Warner Bros. logo is instead an intentionally chintzy 60s style logo. All this ties into the infamous cruise ship opening.

The version aired on Indian cable networks omitted a huge chunk of the opening mass-decapitation scene and most of the gore and graphic shots throughout the film. The scene where Francesca seduces Greer was also edited significantly in order to obscure any nudity.