‘Thirteen Ghosts’ is actually a 2001 supernatural horror movie directed by Steve Beck. It is a remake of the 1960 movie titled ’13 Ghosts’ by William Castle. The movie stars Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth, Alec Roberts, Rah Digga, and F. Murray Abraham. It was released to theaters on the 26th of October 2001. From a personal point of view, this particular movie will definitely make you be on the edge of your seat because they have all sorts of jump scares and terrifying spirits that looked real. You would definitely check your back.
For those who have seen ‘Thirteen Ghosts’ movie, there are actually a total of thirteen scary and horrifyingly looked spirits that will definitely make the viewers scared and shocked. Little did many people know, there is actually detailed and specific information about all of the spirits. The facts about them are indeed so informational to know.
1) The First Born Son
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In life, The First Born Son was a boy named Billy Michaels, who had an unhealthy obsession with pop culture involving “cowboys and Indians.” Any attempt to rip him away from his fantasy life would earn rage, but that rage and a toy gun didn’t protect Billy from a real arrow fired into his head by another boy during an ill-conceived duel. Billy doesn’t attack anyone directly in Thirteen Ghosts, but he does scare them into the way of more violent spirits.
2) The Torso
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The Torso is exactly what it sounds like, a disembodied torso wrapped in cellophane. In life, the torso was part of a compulsive gambler named Jimmy Gambino. Gambino was also a bookie, but his own gambling prevented him from being able to pay out the winnings of a “made man” in the mob, and the criminal didn’t take it too kindly. Mob goons killed Jimmy and cut him up, dumping his remains into the ocean.
3) The Bound Woman
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In life, The Bound Woman was named Susan LeGrow and had a privileged upbringing. She was a rich, popular cheerleader who dated the captain of the school football team. That was until said captain found her with another boy on prom night, and had a rather horrific reaction, to say the least. He bludgeoned his romantic rival to death, then strangled Susan with his own tie. Like the First Born Son and the Torso, she’s scarier than an actual threat.
4) The Withered Lover
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The Withered Lover is one ghost that’s definitely not any kind of threat to the Kriticos family once they get trapped inside their presumed dead relative Cyrus’ house of horrors. Of course, that’s due to her particularly tragic backstory, as she was Jean Kriticos, wife of protagonist Arthur and mother to his children Kathy and Bobby. Jean died in a house fire that the rest of her family made out of alive.
5) The Torn Prince
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The Torn Prince was a high school baseball star in the late-1950s, explaining the ever-present baseball bat weapon that he’ll happily use to attack any of Thirteen Ghosts’ living characters. Named Royce Clayton in life, The Torn Prince died during a drag race, after losing control of his car in a horrific accident. He shouldn’t blame himself though, as his opponent had secretly tampered with his brakes.
6) The Angry Princess
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Born Dana Newman, The Angry Princess was an incredibly beautiful woman, by all standards but her own. Sadly, she was unable to be happy with her looks, seeing imperfections others didn’t, and constantly trying to improve her appearance via surgery. A string of abusive relationships did nothing to help her self-image. After botching an attempt to perform face surgery on herself, Dana died by suicide, cutting her wrists in a bathtub. Slimy lawyer character Ben Moss makes a rude comment about her nude ghostly appearance, and boy does he pay for it.
7) The Pilgrimess
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Named Isabella Smith, The Pilgrimess was a victim of the witch trial hysteria that gripped New England in the late 1600s. A local outcast, Isabella was accused of witchcraft, and when an attempted burning didn’t work, the perception that she was evil only increased. In the end, The Pilgrimess was left to slowly die of starvation in the stocks her ghost remains locked in during Thirteen Ghosts.
8) and 9) The Great Child and The Dire Mother
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The Great Child and The Dire Mother are another cases of the ghosts being exactly what they sound like. Margaret Shelburne was a little person who worked in a carnival freak show, and her enormous son Harold was the result of a sexual assault by the carnival’s tallest member of the freak troupe. Some of the other freaks later murdered Margaret, leading Harold to go crazy with an ax and kill most of them, before he himself was killed by an angry mob.
10) The Hammer
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Born George Markley, The Hammer wasn’t a bad person at all, working as a blacksmith in a small town. That was until he was falsely accused of theft by a white man and his family was brutally murdered. In a grief-fueled rage, George took his trusty sledgehammer and bludgeoned their killers. Of course, the townspeople blamed him and killed him by driving railroad spikes into his body.
11) The Jackal
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Easily the most volatile and unpredictable of the ghosts in Thirteen Ghosts, The Jackal was born Ryan Kuhn in 1887 and grew up to be a sick and twisted man. A vicious and compulsive sexual predator and killer, Ryan did actually seek help for his affliction, checking into an asylum. Not that it did him any real good, as before long he had completely lost what was left of his mind. He eventually died when the asylum burned down.
12) The Juggernaut
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Horace “Breaker” Mahoney, The Juggernaut, is definitely the most dangerous ghost to be found within Thirteen Ghosts and can be considered almost a “final boss” of the group. A mountain of a man, Horace was a serial killer who would pick up hitchhikers or offer rides to the stranded, only to take them back to his junkyard and tear them apart with his bare hands. He’d then feed their bodies to his dogs. Along with The Hammer, The Juggernaut sadly decimates friendly psychic character Dennis Rafkin.
13) The Broken Heart
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The thirteenth and final ghost in the Black Zodiac. This ghost dies by leaping into the core of Basileus’s Machine out of an act of pure love. Cyrus chose his nephew, Arthur Kriticos to serve as the Broken Heart.
Sources: YouTube Movieclips Classic Trailers, Black Zodiac.
