Bloody shower scene - Death Ship (1980) Discussion

[–] ponytailboy-from-sweden 18 years ago

Yes. You are correct.

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[–] ghanchi 18 years ago

Thanks

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[–] jawsfan 18 years ago

I thought Lori naked was a bit more interesting than the blood... LOL. BUt that whole scene was hilarious. "NICK!!!!It's blood! It's BLOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!"

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[–] marc-347 18 years ago

In most versions the shower scene has been darkened so much that you can't see anything. The old Embassy release has it in all its brighter glory.

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[–] cmlegend 18 years ago

I was looking for that movie because I also remember the shower scene from when I was under 10 years old as well...

This movie and "shock wave"..

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[–] Jenny_McLane 17 years ago

I also, maybe I was 12 when I watched the movie the first time ;) I like it and I'm glad that is out on DVD.

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[–] egomoz 17 years ago

It seems like there is a whole generation out there that remembers that shower scene. I saw the scene when I was 5 or 6 and for years it haunted me but I couldn't figure out the source. It wasn't until recently that I saw the poster for "Death ship" and somehow it clicked - this was the film! So DVD is out in February 2007 on region 2. Sweet.

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[–] deelee74 15 years ago

I saw this when I was 6 years old.
I am 34 now, and to this day, I rarely take showers. And it is all due to this scene. Of course, it isn't scary to me now, but as a kid, I would always choose to take a bath instead of a shower out of fear that maybe the door would lock, the water would turn to blood, and I would drown in it.
After avoiding showers my whole childhood, I still prefer the bath to the shower.

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[–] SuperNinja 10 years ago

Don't worry.
The NAZI ghosts know how to turn on the shower too.
While you are relaxing in your bath, the blood shower will rain down on you.

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[–] FlyingSaucersAreReal 8 years ago

Better not watch Slither, then you'll have to avoid baths as well.

-I was born in a crossfire hurricane.

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[–] letiboo 17 years ago

I too saw the movie when I was around 7 or so and the only scene that I remembered was the shower scene..Took me years to figure out what movie it was and I have never been able to obtain a copy...maybe one day...

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[–] nmejamie 16 years ago

If you get the Region 0 Pal Dvd of DeathShip The Shower Scene is Not Darkened you get to see All of the Blood
I Saw this back in 83 when I was 9 thats the Scene I remember as well The Bloody Shower Scene & When he throws her overboard in the Ocean
Cult Classic!!!!!!!!! This Horror Flick Still Gives Me The Creeps

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[–] Mart1138 14 years ago

Wow there is a whole sub-culture of under age"Death Ship" viewers! I was around 8-10 when I first saw it I'm 31 now. Me and my bro would always record the late Friday night horror movies of the TV, probably BBC2 or C4. I remember watching this on a Saturday morning before football and being totally creep-ed out by it, and the shower scene was so memorable, I also have memories of decayed iron and the sense of loneliness that the ship gave of. Other than that I also remember it being pretty boring, but somehow it made you want to watch it! Classic I would love to see it now.

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[–] scrappinrandy 14 years ago

wow! that is hilarious. I kept trying to remember this movie and of course I remembered the shower scene. I was about 8-10 when I saw this. Hope it comes out on dvd.

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[–] phoenixandrew 11 years ago

I was 17 and living in my birthplace, New York City, when "Death Ship" was released to the theaters. The movie was shown in the movie theaters on 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Times Square when it used to be a seedy area. It was also featured on the PBS movie review show "Sneak Previews" with Siskel & Ebert when Gene Siskel made this film his "dog of the week" ridiculing the scene when George Kennedy tells Richard Crenna "we need your blood, we need your wife's blood".

It wasn't until I was 20 that I got my first VHS VCR and watched "Death Ship" at home.

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[–] jnoble11 11 years ago

She couldn't have drowned in the blood, it was a shower not a bathtub. She just slumped down in the corner of the shower like she passed out after awhile. Heart attack? Then Ashland flings her overboard. There's a lot of things in this movie that don't make much sense as far as the deaths go.

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[–] phoenixandrew 11 years ago

She went into catatonic shock, which becomes Ashland's opportunity to fling her overboard without a fight.

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[–] Horror_Metal 11 years ago

That was the best scene of the movie. She was really hot too!

Horror_Metal

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[–] Mathias001 8 years ago

That scene seems to be the common trigger in remembering this movie. A couple of weeks ago I was discussing obscure movies with 2 co workers during our break and I mentioned this one. They both drew a blank so I added "You know the one with the chick in the bloody shower. One piped up "Oh yeah! The movie about the Nazi death ship!"

Funny how one scene can make someone remember a movie made 35 years ago. It's also one of the lamest deaths in movie history. She simply collapses in the shower then the captain throws her overboard. Since the ship itself is the antagonist (because we never see any Nazi ghosts) it would have been better if the shower head "came alive" and killed her a la Linnea Quigley in Witchtrap.

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[–] ChrisN12 8 years ago

The only time I've ever seen this film was in the cinema (I must have missed any screenings that were on British TV) and that was in 1981. The bloody shower scene is just about the only thing I remember, other than lots of 'filler' shots of the ship in the ocean. I was amazed to read on here that George Kennedy was in it.

One point that needs to be made is that I'm not surprised that the 18 certificate was downgraded to 15, since the shower scene is the only gory scene in the film and in fact, as no body wounds are shown, the only reason why the film got an X (and not AA) on its initial UK cinema release was probably because of the frontal nudity in that scene. The British censors used to be quite strict about female frontal nudity, less so with male nudity (a good example is 'Monty Python's Life of Brian' which got away with 'AA')
I can't understand why it was banned in Norway and Iceland.

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