Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62379 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-02-12
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 92 minutes

Customer Reviews

A little Titanic, Speed 2, and House on Haunted Hill
(Warning: may contain some spoilers!)This movie is about a group of friends who decide to charter a fishing boat for a day of fishing in the Bermuda Triangle. Then during their trip, the engine breaks down, their instruments go haywire, and they become engulfed in a hazy, yellow fog. Then when the fog subsides, a massive ocean liner, the SS Queen Of Scotts (a cheaply animated, rusty version of the RMS Queen Mary), which disappeared in 1939, appears and the friends find their way aboard to find a radio to get help, to find a machine part for their engine, and one of the men is looking to salvage some gold, jewels, and money from the purser's safe. Then their boat vanishes and they're stuck aboard a rusting old ship, (that looks like the a banquet hall with party stuff and miscellaneous pieces of junk just strewn about, very cheap). The group then tries to find out what happened to the ship, and it is something pretty sinister, though it is not fully explained. Then a ghost boy leads one of the friends away and gives him a heart attack, the evil in the ship drives the greedy, fortune-hunting, friend crazy and he starts trying to kill off the rest of the group so he can take the valubles from the safe. Eventually two of the people kill the insane friend and jump overboard, but the evil in the ship does not want anyone to escape so it drives the ship after them but they are able to get away and give the movie a literally Big, Explosive, ending.

I thought this movie was pretty good, despite its cheesey, tv movie status. It had its small problems, such as plot (which was still good but not too good). And the characters were not that likeable, I don't know if it was their acting or just the character but some of them were just not very interesting.

Overall, though, it was a very good movie, I really enjoyed seeing what the Queen Mary would have looked like if it had been lost in the Bermuda Triangle (at least the exterior). The interior sets looked okay, but were rather cardboardy, as said, and the engine room and bridge were almost as good as new, despite the fact that the ship had been at see for fifty years.

Anyway, the movie was pretty good and I rather enjoyed it, so if you like big ships sinking/exploding, horror, and/or a Bermuda Triangle mystery movie, this one is the one for you.

The Triangle...Fwahahahaha....
The Triangle is a movie with multiple facets... mystery, intrigue, horror...

Follow a group of friends as they make the biggest mistake of their lives, and boy have they ever made mistakes on trips. When they decide to fish in the Bermuda Triangle, something evil has its own ideas. The group comes upon an abandoned ship, lost in the triangle for years, and the evil breaks lose... The group quickly begins to fear even themselves on this ghost ship. Watch as they fall apart, and then watch as two of the originals are rescued... 4 years later...

What better setting for a good mystery than the infamous triangle, and what better prelude to evil than an encounter with a wicked voodoo priestess? You'll watch this again and again!

It's a Perfect Storm of stupid!
The Triangle (Lewis Teague, 2001)

What happened to Lewis Teague? In the eighties, he was a crafter, of good, solid theatrical releases, including two Stephen King adaptations (Cujo and Cat's Eye) and The Jewel of the Nile, the mega-popular sequel to the mega-popular Romancing the Stone. Come the new millennium and he made this, a bad, loose made-for-TV adaptation of/homage to King's The Shining. I have a number of rules of thumb for determining a film's quality before I see it. Two of them are that any movie containing Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210) is bound to be awful, and any movie containing Dan Cortese (Locusts: The 8th Plague) is bound to be awful. You put the two of them in the same movie, and you've got a kind of Perfect Storm of awful. Suffice to say that The Triangle delivers.

Three friends--Stu (Perry), Tommy (Cortese) and Gus (Cube's David Hewlett)--head off for points south for their yearly fishing trip, accompanied this time by Stu's fiancée Julia (Polly Shannon, from TVs' Jesse Stone movies). After a credit card mishap, the four of them end up chartering a rickety craft captained by the amusingly-named Captain Morgan (Dorian Harewood, last on the big screen in Gothika) and crewed by lovely, but sharp-tongued, Charlie (The Wonder Years' Olivia D'Abo). The boys have an objective this year: they want to head up into the Bermuda Triangle. Why? We don't know. Maybe they're hoping to catch coelacanth or something. In any case, they catch the Queen of Scots, an ocean liner that disappeared sixty years before, after getting lost. Their own boat is in trouble, and they decide to scavenge the ship for parts. When they get there, however, they find that the ship may not want them to leave.

The obvious comparison, and the one everyone makes, is to The Shining. Makes sense, given Teague's previous King connection, but I don't even like The Shining, in book or movie form, and I think the comparison is an insult to The Shining. The acting is terrible, the script takes all of the flashier ideas King came up with and leaves all the stuff that ties them into something resembling an actual story, the camerawork is adequate at best (and that's the best part of the film). Harewood, the one decent actor here, has the least screen time. I guess I should have expected that.

When it comes right down to it, why even bother making a Bermuda Triangle movie if you're not going to bring anything new to the table? I've seen worse movies recently, but I can't say I hope to see any worse in the near future. I have to clean my brain after this one. *