Through the years, cinema has given birth to many horror movies. In the horror genre, cinema has provided us with memorable moments of chilling screams, bizarre deaths and legendary characters. The problem is that they have overdone death scenes or bizarre death scenes that look to prosthetic.

At times, they squeezed blood out of many different characters, such as Freddie, Jason and Mike, making as many movies as they can.

Yet sometimes, there is a horror movie that relies on plot to scare people.

People love to be frightened. There is something to be said about the adrenaline flowing through our bodies. On the same token, I do for some odd reason enjoy leaving my entrails behind after seeing a good scary movie or have goose bumps that last throughout the movie.

Which brings me to why I am writing. “Thirteen Ghosts” is a remake of the classic William Castle horror movie. This movie stars Tony Shalhoub, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth and F. Murray Abraham.

The movie starts with ghost hunter Cyrus (Abraham) and psychic Rafkin (Lillard) in a junkyard searching for a ghost that haunts the area. Rafkin can sense where a ghost is hiding until its next kill.

Men working for Cyrus are everywhere. After an irritable ghost knocks down a bunch of poorly stacked cars, it is caught inside a special cage. During a struggle, Cyrus has an accident with a piece of metal.

This leads to Cathy (Elizabeth) playing in the yard with her little brother as their parents look on in glee. With a slow, circular sweep around the room, we find out that Arthur (Shalhoub) lost Cathy’s mom in a freak fire accident. He is without money to pay bills because he is a high school math teacher.

The family is then living in a small apartment with a bad nanny. In the midst of a family argument, a knock on the door brings salvation to them. A lawyer informs Arthur he is the heir to Uncle Cyrus’ fortune: a beautiful glass house with mystic inscriptions and money.

Rafkin arrives as an electrical repairman, but soon reveals himself as the assistant to Arthur’s late uncle’s entrepreneuring ghost catching efforts.

The lawyer disappears to find a huge sum of cash hidden in the house. Of course, picking up the bag of money in the cellar sets off the mechanics of the house.

The good news is, the writings on the walls are Latin containment spells, and ghosts cannot pass through the walls with the spells on them.

The best part is that only a special pair of glasses will allow one to view the ghost. Though they can see the entities, nothing can be done to prevent them from attacking.

All hell breaks loose as the house shifts internally and externally, letting the ghosts out one by one to hunt the family.

This movie is a great adaptation of the original. This is not a slasher movie or a movie that tries to make you jump every two minutes.

The cinematography is excellent, the ghosts are good, but the story had more potential than it produced.

“Thirteen Ghosts” is a creepy movie that will make your hair stand on end.

Lillard actually has his moments, and Shalhoub holds his own while exceeding my expectations as a lead character.

The ghosts for the most part are good, but I have to make note that one naked female ghost has breasts that look like flotation devices for children learning how to swim.

Overall, this movie is worth paying the money to see it at the theater.