The movie's one good performance is given by the house, full of ominous inscriptions, inscrutable chambers, and fiendish machines. The human characters are played with various degrees of manic overacting.
25
Miami HeraldCharles Savage
Miami HeraldCharles Savage
The set design of Thirteen Ghosts may have been expensive, but its thrills are cheap.
20
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Tries to combine humor with ghostly horror but excels at neither.
20
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
A brutish affair replete with sliced bodies, a diced storyline and enough clanky dialogue to wake the dead.
20
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Offers so much frenetic fast cutting to so little purpose that it becomes an ordeal.