Titanic isn’t the only ocean liner with a scary history ripe for the big screen. There’s also the RMS Queen Mary, one of the fastest cruise ships and luxury liners beginning with its maiden voyage in 1936. But after its retirement and transformation into a hotel, museum, and attraction in Long Beach, visitors have reported sighting of ghosts and other spirits. Dracula Untold director Gary Shore’s new supernatural horror Haunting of the Queen Mary explores two stories in different eras set on the haunted ship.
The film stars Alice Eve (She’s Out of Your League), Joel Fry (Yesterday),Nell Hudson (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), William Shockley (Death In Texas), and BAFTA winner Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?). Penned by Stephen Oliver and Tom Vaughan, the film tells “a haunting story that is unraveled between the ship’s heyday in the late 1930s and the present and tells the story of two families whose lives become violently entangled. It chronicles the mysterious and violent events surrounding one family’s voyage on Halloween night in 1938, and how their destinies link up with those of another family onboard the ocean liner into the present day.”
This is only Shore’s second feature after 2014’s Dracula Untold, which made over $200M, so he’s got a solid, if short, track record with horror. Shooting on Haunting of the Queen Mary took place aboard the actual Queen Mary, so you know there are some good stories to be told about the production. Let’s hope the strike lifts soon enough for the actors to tell them.
Haunting of the Queen Mary opens in select theaters and VOD on August 18th.
