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Thir13en.Ghosts.-.13.Geister.GERMAN.2001.DVDR

CINEMA DATE..:  2001
RELEASE SIZE.:  4,35 Gig

RUNTIME......:  91min
GENRE........:  Horror
LANGUAGE.....:  German
FSK..........:  18

VIDEO SOURCE.:  DVD

FRAMERATE....:  25FPS
RESOLUTION...:  720x576
BITRATE......:  9800 kbps

IMDB LINK....:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245674

Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle
Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts.
When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter
the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine.

Description: Ghost hunter Cyrus Kriticos (F. Murray Abraham) and
assistant Dennis Rafkin (Matthew Lillard) lead a team on a mission
to capture a spirit, called the Juggernaut, in a junkyard. Several
of the men are killed during the ensuing fight, including Cyrus
himself. However, the team is able to catch the ghost. Arthur
Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub), a mathematician who is also a widower, is
informed by the estate lawyer of his uncle Cyrus, Benjamin Moss (JR
Bourne), that he has inherited a mansion. Arthur and his financially
insecure family plan to move into this mansion with his two
children, Kathy (Shannon Elizabeth) and Bobby (Alec Roberts). Their
babysitter/nanny Maggie (Rah Digga) accompanies the family. Dennis
Rafkin, disguised as a power company employee, meets the family and
Benjamin as they tour the mansion. The residence is made almost
entirely of glass. It contains Latin phrases etched on floors and
movable glass walls, along with priceless artifacts. Arthur and his
family are eager about inheriting this new home, and while Arthur is
discussing financial matters with the attorney, Kathy and Bobby
venture off on their own to explore the mansion. After seeing
several ghosts in the basement, Dennis frantically runs upstairs to
warn Arthur about the home he is about to own. Benjamin assures
Arthur that Dennis is crazy and should be ignored. Dennis tells
Arthur that there are twelve spirits are imprisoned in the house,
held captive by the spells written throughout the residence.
Benjamin Moss is seen sneaking off to collect a valise of money
which was intended to be payment. However, upon taking the money, he
activates a mechanism set up by Cyrus that seals the entrance and
releases the ghosts, one by one. Consequently, Moss encounters one
of them, the Angry Princess, and backs up into an open doorway,
which snaps shut and slices him in half. Later the existence of
ghosts is proven to the skeptical Arthur, when he witnesses an
attack on his daughter by the ghost known as the Jackal. Bobby, the
younger of the two children, disappears after getting separated from
Maggie and he wanders into the basement. There he encounters several
spirits, including the Torso and the Bound Woman. Arthur manages to
find Kathy, and the two battle the Jackal. Kalina Oretzia (Embeth
Davidtz), a spirit liberator, helps Arthur free Kathy from the
Jackal's grip, only to be lost again a few moments later. After
this, Arthur's objective is clear - to find his children and leave
this house as soon as possible. This becomes problematic for two
reasons: only those equipped with special glasses are able to see
the ghosts; and the walls continue to shift, making navigation
difficult. Kalina explains that this is not a house - it is a
complex machine built by Cyrus, known as the Ocularis Infernum (Eye
of Hell.) Created by the Devil and powered by the dead, once
completed, this demonic device would allow its user to see into the
future. To Arthur's horror, he discovers one of the ghosts powering
this machine is the spirit of his dead wife, Jean. Kalina goes on to
tell Arthur that his children are in grave danger, and the only way
to ensure their successful return is to offer his soul in exchange.
If Arthur takes his place as the 13th ghost, his sacrifice of pure
love would combat all of the evil contained within the machine, thus
shutting it down. Cyrus is revealed to be alive, having faked his
death in order to lure Arthur to the house; Kalina turns out to be
his secret partner and lover, and knocks Maggie unconscious. Cyrus
has orchestrated the previous events, including the abduction of
Kathy and Bobby, so that Arthur will become the 13th ghost not to
stop the machine, as Kalina had claimed, but to trigger it. Cyrus
then turns on Kalina and crushes her between two glass walls,
claiming greatness requires sacrifice. Arthur and Dennis make
another attempt to save Kathy and Bobby with the help of a detached
wall. Facing the Hammer, Dennis pushes Arthur into a corner where he
is then protected by the wall, sacrificing his own life in the
process. After combating the Hammer, Dennis finds himself cornered
by the angry spirit and the newly released Juggernaut; he is
brutally beaten and dies when the Juggernaut breaks him in half.
Trapped behind the glass, Arthur is visited by Jean's ghost. Then,
all the ghosts disappear from the basement, responding to a
tape-recorded summons played by Cyrus. Kathy and Bobby have been
placed at the center of a set of whirling, razor-sharp rings. Arthur
and Cyrus have a violent confrontation , which is interrupted by the
sound of Maggie beginning to destroy the machine. Due to this
breakdown in equipment, the ghosts are released from their trance.
All the ghosts except Jean immediately grab Cyrus, and hurl him into
the spinning rings. Dennis' ghost then appears, telling Arthur to go
to his kids. Waiting for a break in the razor rings, Arthur jumps to
save his children, making the leap without dying. The house's glass
walls shatter, releasing the spirits from captivity. A
peacful-looking Jean lingers briefly to say goodbye to her family,
then departs with the others. The film ends with a battered Maggie
walking through the wreckage yelling, I quit!