Here's another foray into the "you can scream, but no one can hear you" horror genre. This time the isolated outpost of doom is an Italian ocean liner that vanished some 40 years ago. Juliana Margulies and Gabriel Byrne head the crackpot salvage crew who are enlisted by a guileless nebbish (Desmond Harrington) to haul the rediscovered ship in. Their bounty increases a hundredfold when they find a cache of gold aboard the abandoned rust bucket, but as they make preparations to head back to port, things start to go bump in the night. There's a fawning young phantasm, a comely chanteuse to die for, and a force from beyond that's also in the salvage business.

Helmed by FX specialist Steven Beck (Thirteen Ghosts), Ghost Ship is quite stylish, and it features one of the most intriguingly choreographed eviscerations ever captured on film. The plot has some crafty twists as well, but there are still too many lethargic eddies amid the frenetic mayhem. Margulies, of ER fame, is the real winner -- she'd make a worthy first mate to Sigourney Weaver's Alien queen. (88 minutes) At the Apple Valley, Campus, Entertainment, Flagship, Holiday, Providence Place Mall 16, Showcase, and Tri-Boro cinemas.