12 Movies You Can Stop Watching After The Opening Scene

12. Ghost Ship

Okay so by now this film is pretty famous for consisting of a great opening scene and almost no other redeeming qualities, but damn if said opening sequence isn’t great enough to be worth spotlighting once more. The film itself is an extremely lame and predictable sea-set supernatural thriller which follows a miscast Gabriel Byrne and his swarthy crew of salvagers as they come across the eponymous spirit-filled cruise liner and are besieged by said spirits in short order. Showcasing the worst aspects of early 2000s horror, the film boasts both uninspired CG ghouls and a molasses-slow plot, leaving little reason to recommend it to anyone.

Except, that is, for its standout opening scene, wherein a nefarious plot sees an entire deck’s worth of passengers bisected in gory detail onscreen when a vital (and seriously sharp) cord is cut by our evil villain. What follows is an insanely gruesome sequence dropped in from a far more daring film, as future star Emily Browning is left screaming amongst the piles of halved adults surrounding her.