Corrected entry: There are two photographs on the ship. One of the sole survivor, and one of the other sinking ship encountered two days before the Antonia Graza went missing. They were not Polaroids, and therefore would have needed to be developed somewhere. Since the ship never made it to shore after either event, where did the photgraphs come from?
Corrected entry: Late in the movie it shows the crew shooting the passengers and they fall into the pool. Where did all of the bones go to?
Correction: Where did all the bones go from all the other slaughters too? Chances are the more visible human remains were disposed of so as not to immeadiately raise suspicion or scare off the salvage crews that came.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the captain's face is falling off because of the wire, he is leaning forward. However, in the next shot his body falls backwards, though he should have fallen forwards.
Correction: Katie pushes his body away after the top of his head slides forwards. Thus, he falls backwards. The push is seen in the first time the cable-slaughter is shown.
Play the opening scene in slow motion on YouTube and you can see as the wire goes through all of the passengers, the Captain is hugging Katie (young girl) the entire time, it is only when the wire has sliced him, Katie backs away from him, completely, not touching him at all but just gasping in fear and staring at him, he's obviously leaning forward as the top half of his face is sliding off, he should have definitely fallen forwards and not toppled backwards like a mannequin as he did in the movie. So there is no logical explanation for this, this is a legitimate movie mistake. And yes this was the first cable slaughter scene, the opening scene of the movie.
Corrected entry: Accounting for the forty year time period, and the amount it takes the human body to decompose, there should be some signs of human remains. The only thing Epps finds is the skeleton of Katie. All of the people in the pool, on the deck, and everywhere else, should have left skeletal remains at least. But there aren't any, save for Katie's.
Corrected entry: When the soul collector (disguised as Dodge) enters the room where Epps is rigging the C-4 to blow up the ship, he walks down a set of stairs and across a long catwalk. When he reached Epps and begins ranting, he turns around, takes a single step and grabs the shotgun to throw in the water. How did the gun get there? During his walk across the cat walk we can see that he isn't carrying the gun.
Correction: I believe the gun he throws in the water is actually a spear gun she has brought with her, not the shotgun from the scene before. The same spear gun she grabs while under the water to shoot the detonator trigger.
Corrected entry: When the lady in red blows a hole in the guy who blew away his friends gets killed, the hook that kills her somehow lifts her off the ground, she is swinging but her feet are off the ground, but if the hook had really hit her her feet would be scraping the ground.
Correction: You can see the chain lowering, therefore she was lifting up as she was swaying.
Corrected entry: When Epps attempts to give Katie the heart locket it goes right through her hand proving that she is a ghost and can not hold things. Yet the opening of the very next scene is the ghost captain handing the real captain a book.
Correction: It isn't that Katie cannot hold things (or that the ghosts cannot - for example, Francesca holds the cigarette too). Katie purposely lets the locket go through her to convince Epp that she is in fact a ghost.
Corrected entry: We know the evil ghost can change shape as he turns into Dodge near the end, so why come to the salvage crew the way he looked when it sank? It was inevitable that one of them would see the one survivor.
Correction: First, because of the digital watch on the Antonia, we know that the soul collector has done this before, so he probably knows his limits and what he can get away with. Also, because the only picture of him is actually on the Antonia, he probably doesn't care, because he knows the crew won't find out until too late anyway.
Corrected entry: In all the chaos on board the ship, and the race for the gold, why do two crewmen take the time to carry Katie to her room and hang her rather than just cutting her throat as they did with everyone else? It makes for a good scare when Epps finds her still-hanging body, but makes no sense given the events around them at the time.
Correction: Maybe the men took her to her room and locked her up as a prisoner. Maybe they assaulted her. After everyone else is killed and she is alone, maybe she hangs herself. Since there is obviously an afterlife going on, this would explain why her innocent soul gets caught on the boat instead of immediately ascending as it does at the end of the movie.
Corrected entry: Ferriman says he can only mark someone if they do something sinful first. Dodge shouldn't have been marked as he technically shot Ferriman in self-defense, which isn't considered a sin, but near the end Epps sees her dead crewmates and Dodge is also shown as well as marked.
Correction: It was implied that if they sinned in their life they could be marked, not immediately before death. That is also why the demon explained that he couldn't mark Katie, because she never committed any sins.
Corrected entry: During the original takeover of the ship and killing of the passengers and crew, the Jaguar in the cargo hold was riddled with bullets. When the salvage crew arrives, a great deal is made by one of the crew about finding the car intact. Even after decades of rust and corrosion the bullet holes should have been noticeable (not to mention the shell casings on the deck).
Correction: The bullet holes and shells are there, barley visible.
Corrected entry: If the ship didn't make any stops after they picked up the soulkeeper from the sinking ship. Then how did they get the guns on board?
Correction: The same way they got the gold on the ship - they carried them on when they picked Jack up off the sinking ship.
Corrected entry: After Epps is rescued by the cruise ship, she is seen being placed in an ambulance. The cruise ship is docked in the Port of Vancouver, Canada. About 3,000 miles north as a crow flies is the Bering Strait where the "ghost ship" is. The Bering Strait is a 25 mile gap between Alaska and Russia. Why would a cruise ship be up there if it was enroute to New York USA from Italy in the Mediterranean? Also there is no McKenzie Bay Airbase in North America.
Correction: This is the whole premise of the movie, is it not? The ship was posessed by the demon, therefore she just wandering around the world, looking for souls.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Epps and Ferriman have just found the gold, there are rats running all over it. If this ship has been at sea and know one has been on it since 1962, how can rats still be alive and running around?
Correction: There were other visitors aboard the ship prior to the Arctic Warrior crew (the digital watch they discovered on the bridge was left by a previous visitor; the extra features on the DVD also suggest previous encounters). It's possible that the rats came aboard with these visitors. It's also possible (although less plausible) that the rats on board in 1962 survived by consuming ship's stores and human remains, and that their descendants resorted to cannibalism once other sources of food ran out.
Corrected entry: When the woman opens the door in the laundrette a load of bodies float out but if they have been rotting for 40 odd years they would have decomposed by now.
Correction: The bodies aren't from more than 40 years ago. They are the bodies of fishermen or sailors who have come abroad more recently and been killed by the spirits. This is why they know they are not the first to have found the drifting boat.
Corrected entry: When Juliana Marguiles is handed the cigarette, she inhales and says something like, "That feels good," but no smoke comes out when she exhales.
Correction: Right before the shot changes, she blows the smoke out her nose.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the line cuts everyone in half, most of the passangers are cut through the middle of their waists and arms, which would put it around three feet. The fact the little girl didn't get at least the top of her hair cut and the man she was dancing with got his head cut in half would only make sense if they were midgets.
Correction: If you pay attention, the captian bends forwards and pushes her down, thus lining up his head with the cable.
Play the opening scene slowed down on YouTube and you can see the Captain simply hugging the little girl (Katie) as the wire makes its way towards his face. The wire started moving at waist height through most of the passengers, the only explanation of this error would be that the wire had some sort of spasm midway through its travel and found its way up high the second half of its trip, thus cutting the Captain from the mouth. If the wire would have remained at waist height, Katie would have definitely been killed, maybe not cleanly decapitated from the neck, but for sure anywhere around the head.
Corrected entry: In the scene of Julie's first conversation with the ghost of Katie, the locket naturally passes through the ghost's hand. However, the light from the resting flashlight illuminates one half of Katie's body. An apparition that cannot stop metal would also not stop the beam of light.
Correction: As previusly stated, Katie can hold onto the objects as can The Captain and The Singer. Katie lets the locket slip through her hand to prove she is a ghost.
Then why did she ask to keep the locket open? It was because she can't open it herself.
Corrected entry: The ship supposedly had about 4600 people and 500 crew, but a handful of the crew managed to kill off the entire ship by themselves? A majority seemed to be with just a razor blade which it took two of them to carry out. You would think some of the passengers could fight back and overpower the bad guys.
Correction: A lot of the people were poisoned by the food.
Correction: The bad crew had fear and panic on their side. As you see, this was carefully done in stages. The whole ship at once? Then you make a valid point, but doing it a little at a time and then killing the people who did the killing, it was able to be done.
Corrected entry: In the scene when the crew first enters the ballroom on the Antonia Graza, Julianna Marguiles pretends to be a ships hostess and says, "...my name is Julie...". Her name in the movie is Maureen Epps. Julie being an abbreviation for Julianna.
Correction: What she is pretending to be is the Cruise Director - and the most famous cruise director is Julie McCoy of The Love Boat. When she says "Julie," it has nothing to do with being an abbreviation for her own name.
Correction: This was a luxury liner. There is a good chance that there was a black room to develop photographs on board.