TdSmth5 An American couple, another couple from New Zealand board a small ship for a trip from New Zealand to Fiji. The boat is owned by yet another couple. In an intro we hear a voice over by a little girl talking about the Ferryman who takes the dead to the afterlife if he gets paid. Why this entity needs or wants money, who knows. Also previously we witness a ship going through very rough seas and two guys beating each other up until one of the goes nuts, stabs the other guy and hacks him to pieces.Meanwhile the small boat encounters dense fog at night and hears a distress signal. They stop and go searching for the troubled boat and find the crazy survivor from the beating earlier. He goes crazy and stabs the Kiwi guy. He inherits the old man's giant back tattoo of a snake in the shape of an 8. Now he goes nuts and attacks the American guy, and so on. The knife somehow transfers the madness and every crazy person ends up with the tattoo.The New Zealand girl, a former nurse, keeps having visions of a little girl who died in her care. She took some sleeping pills and sleeps through the entire ordeal while everyone else is attacking each other. She has another vision and this time the girls gives her a coin, which will be key to calling the Ferryman and putting an end to all the craziness.This movie is about 30 minutes too long, and far too boring. Once you confine a bunch of uninteresting people on a small boat, there's not much to expect. Add to that fog and the night- can't gruesome things ever happen during the day? and you have a recipe for one lame movie. The Ferryman is a bit gory, there's the killing and gutting of a baby shark, the hacking to pieces of some guy, lots of blood, but not even that keeps our attention. The ending back on land is quite interesting but by then it's too late to save the movie.

slayrrr666 "The Ferryman" is a potentially interesting but ultimately extremely disappointing effort.**SPOILERS**Going out on a trip, Big Dave, (Tamer Hassan) and his Suze, (Kerry Fox) agree to take friends Chris Hamilton, (Craig Hall) Kathy, (Amber Sainsbury) Zane, (Julian Arahanga) and Tate, (Sally Stockwell) on a multi-day cruise from New Zealand. At first out having fun, they soon start to change when they come upon a strange fog, and when coming upon a stranded sailor known as The Greek, (John Rhys-Davies) they decide to bring him aboard. Shortly afterward, they realize that something isn't right, and when the group begins to start killing each other, they learn that they are the target of the Ferryman, a vicious supernatural killer that is trying to collect souls to take to the afterlife, and must resort to a never-ending series of tactics to outwit the body-hopping killer before all of them become victims.The Good News: This here was a potentially interesting affair, as there was some good stuff here. One of the film's best features is the killer and his rules, which are quite new and original, not really something that is expected at all and really has something going for it. With the rules following along closely to the ones already established for the real-life persona it's based on, namely the reaping of souls for the underworld and used here, gives it a nice touch and really makes it seem that much more like a legitimate, imposing force. That there are also rules that go along with it all, from how to get possessed to what happens during that time and how to get rid of the force within is also really nice, which works here by adding a really interesting twist on the slasher-among-a-group-of-friends that has been done countless times before which is where it really scores well while also giving the film some nice momentum at the end when it's revealed what's going on and making those scenes, which start off as back-story revelations but turn into big brawls makes it even more entertaining and exciting, putting in a touch of energy missing from the rest of the film as well. The last plus here is the fact that the kills aren't that bad and quite bloody, which is a big plus. There's several that are beaten up and viciously bruised, an eyeball bludgeoned out, a beer bottle bashed against the head, a slit throat and another is set on fire. These here are all that work right for this one.The Bad News: There was a couple of rather big flaws for this one. One of the main ones is that the film is just so utterly boring that it's quite impossible to make it through most of the beginning of the film. As it sets up the characters and their relationships with each other, it doesn't really start getting to business until an hour in, which is a criminal mistake that really takes it's toll on the film. It sets up almost nothing as it's just random scenes of people acting mysteriously around each other and then everyone else trying to figure out what's going on, but none of this is done with any care towards making it interesting. They just go around talking about anything and everything, which is quite boring and makes for a dull time. This also isn't helped by the fact that there's just a high level of confusion around the film, as hardly any of it makes any sense at all. There's very little reason given as to what the killer is doing going after any of the people here as it was given that there was a target, which wasn't any of them, and makes those scenes just all-around confusing. The scenes among the group earlier when trying to figure everything out are just as bad, as they manage to just spout off anything that sounds logical and not really piecing anything together coherently, offering up little that is overall important and just instead adds to the dullness and boredom that permeate the film. There's so much more here that doesn't make any sense that it eventually just washes over and really just sort of settles, making the overall effect of derision quite easy to accept. The last flaw here, which ties into the confusion as well but also suffers on it's own, is the fact that the film never really does anything with the killer or his motive, which is introduced way too late into the film to really get a handle on anything. It's almost over before we get any kind of idea what the official killer is, an explanation about it or why it's important to the film, all of which come a little too late to be of much help and never really comes of anything. It would've been better not being given at all rather than at that late date. These here are the film's problems.The Final Verdict: Really hard to get into and features a lot of really big and important flaws, really negating this one considerably and not really offering much. Give it a shot if this kind of film appeals to you, while those that are put off by the flaws or aren't into this kind of film should heed extreme caution.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and animal violence

HumanoidOfFlesh Three couples embark on a six day romantic boat journey to Fiji and their differences ensure that personality clashes abound.However all that is put to one side when they encounter a seemingly abandoned boat in dense fog.They find a living stranger on board and rescue him,however the terrifying consequences lead to plenty of gore.It seems that the ship is deserted apart from the mysterious sailor lying half-dead under a tarpaulin(played by horror regular John Rhys Davies).Rhys-Davies' body is actually home to a being who can shift between bodies swapping souls.This soul-swapping is achieved with the aid of the magic dagger-if he stabs somebody with it,he instantly becomes the victim.He's doing this to avoid a demonic entity called 'the Ferryman' who has been chasing him through thousands of bodies over many years.In "The Ferryman" each victim in turn becomes the killer.The killer always has a snakelike tattoo on their back,which is the symbol of infinity.During the first 40 minutes the action moves slowly and the legend of Ferryman is slightly confusing.Still I enjoyed this quite exciting,gripping and bloody horror flick.7 out of 10.

Paul Andrews The Ferryman starts on the New Zealand coast as four holidaying teens board a yacht for hire to enjoy a relaxing six day cruise to Fiji, once aboard the Captain & his wife set sail & the journey begins. However the cruise hits problems when they hear a Morse code SOS & in trying to find it's source end up in a huge bank of thick fog, eventually they find a stranded boat & a lone surviving Greek sailor (John Rhys-Davies) whom they rescue & take back to the yacht. Back on-board the yacht the sailor seems alright & a decent laugh but things turn nasty when he finds out that he has cancer since there is in fact a thousands of years old evil demonic spirit inside the sailors body & since the body will soon die from cancer it needs to find a new body & a way to get back to dry land & have a little fun in the process...This British New Zealand co-production was directed by Chris Graham & I have to say that I pretty much despised The Ferryman, reading some of the positive reviews on the IMDb I wonder both if I saw the same film & just how people's opinions can differ so much. The Ferryman takes several concepts & ideas ripped-off from much better films & throws them all together in a rather boring & poorly written fashion, there are elements from The Fog (1980) with the constant fog obviously, the basic set-up & much of the plot feels like it has been lifted from Dead Calm (1989) with the isolated boat in the open ocean & it's passengers being terrorised & the whole body swapping possession angle feels like it could have come from any number of 80's horror films like The Thing (1982) or The Hidden (1987). The character's are such an unlikable lot that all the development & build-up felt like I was having teeth pulled & the profanity riddled dialogue sounds exactly like a cheap horror flick. The whole body possession angle is totally wasted too, in a film like The Thing the tension & mystery elements are pushed to the limit but here the filmmakers always make it clear who is possessed so there's never any paranoia, mistrust, surprises or twist's which makes the film somewhat of a predictable precession. The so-called plot is also very sparse, no background is given whatsoever to the demon or it's origins or even how it was on the boat to start with, the eventual solution given to the survivor to defeat the demon is given to her by a ghost girl in her dream for no apparent reason & to add to the ridiculousness of it she pretty much defeats the demon with a lesbian kiss! If this demon was so clever why did it murder & molest people all the time? Surely that's going to attract unwanted attention? Why not possess a body, keep it's mouth shut & just wait until the yacht hit dry land? The pacing is slow, it felt like The Ferryman went on for hours & I just found it a very unlikable viewing experience.Set almost entirely on the open Ocean on a yacht The Ferryman is a quite boring looking film actually & the dark dull foggy background doesn't help. I mean unlike in The Fog the fog in The Ferryman isn't used for any sort of atmospheric effect. I am not sure why this is actually called The Ferryman, is it referring to the Ferryman of Charon from Greek mythology? If so I can't see any specific links, the plot plays more like the body possession horror of The Thing rather than a story of a mythological being. There's some blood splatter but not much gore (this is only rated '15' here in the UK), there's a severed hand, a cut open Shark, someone is glassed in the face & neck & there are a few quick stabbings. There is supposedly a sex scene here but the guy is clearly seen to be wearing underwear & the girl was wearing a bra so there's no nudity whatsoever.Production wise the film is alright, it has reasonable production values but it has a bland look about it. Actually shot in New Zealand. Another aspect of The Ferryman I disliked was the terrible acting, there's so much over the top crying, shouting & exaggerating it actually starts to become cringe-worthy.The Ferryman is a film that I didn't really know anything about going in to watch it & I wish I still didn't know anything about it as it was a pretty painful viewing experience for me although there are some out there who seem to like it for whatever reason.