''Titanic 666'' (also known as ''Titanic Rises'' and ''Titanic 3'') is a 2022 American

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film directed by

Nick Lyon Nick Lyon (born April 25, 1970) is a Los Angeles–based film director and screenwriter. A native of Pocatello, Idaho, he spent nine years in Germany where he attended the renowned Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. In Ge ...

and produced by

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. It is a sequel to ''

Titanic II ''Titanic II'' is a planned passenger ocean liner intended to be a functional modern-day replica of the ''Olympic''-class RMS ''Titanic''. The new ship is planned to have a gross tonnage (GT) of 56,000, while the original ship measured about ...

'' (2010) and stars

Jamie Bamber Jamie St John Bamber Griffith (born 1972/73), known professionally as Jamie Bamber, is a British actor, known for his roles as Lee Adama in ''Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series), Battlestar Galactica'' and Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin in t ...

and

Keesha Sharp Keesha Ulricka Sharp (née Fleth; born June 9, 1973) is an American actress and television director. She played Monica Charles Brooks in the UPN/The CW comedy series, '' Girlfriends'' (2002–08), for which she received a nomination for NAACP I ...

. It was released on

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on the United States on April 15, 2022, on the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the ''Titanic''. The film received generally unfavorable reviews, and users on social media noted the film's similarity to ''

Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers a ...

'' (1997) and ''

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'' (2022).

Plot

On April 15, 1912, Elyzabeth desperately searches for her husband Charles while the original RMS Titanic is sinking. She manages to get into a lifeboat, and although the ropes loosen on their own and several people are killed, Elyzabeth survives the sinking. She sees Charles drown in the wreckage, but he reappears as a

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and pulls her into the ocean. On April 15, 2022 (110 years since the

sinking of the Titanic Titanic, RMS ''Titanic'' sank on 15 April 1912 in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, ''Titanic'' was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, USA with ...

and 10 years since the events of

), a new high-tech luxury cruise ship Titanic III will be christened, sailing the same route as the original. Married influencers Mia and Jackson Stone board the ship, as does their fan Nancy. Captain Celeste Rhoades tells her crew that everything needs to be done well to avoid the incidents that befell the two previous Titanics. The ship sets sail while stowaway Idina Bess infiltrates the ship's basement and steals one of the Titanic victims' artifacts collected by Professor Hal Cochran. Meanwhile, the Stones investigate the Titanic through their networks, coming into conflict with Hal. Crew member Julie informs the passengers that there will be a commemoration of the original Titanic that evening. In the basement, Idina prepares a satanic ritual to bring back her great-grandfather, who turns out to be Captain Edward Smith. Smith calls the souls of the passengers who died in the original disaster to him; Mia, Jackson and Nancy witness this, but ignore it. Rhoades, Julie and the rest of the passengers gathered in the lounge begin to honor the original victims. Meanwhile, Mia and Jackson are attacked by the original Titanic's orchestra on the main deck; Jackson disappears and Mia is killed. Concerned, Rhoades interrogates Hal and forces him to go below, where he is attacked by a ghost but survives. In the engine room, the ghosts kill the engineers and take control of the ship. Captain Rhoades and crew member Brian go to the engine room and discover the bodies. They try to shut down the engines, but the turbines explode and disable the ship's controls. As the ghosts attack the passengers, Idina is arrested by Brian, but she kills him and escapes with Smith's help. Rhoades orders a distress call as Idina heads to the bridge to crash the ship into an iceberg, and despite Rhodes' attempts to persuade her against it, Idina commits suicide, the ship crashes, and panic ensues. Rhoades orders the passengers into the lifeboats as quickly as possible, despite many of the passengers and crew having been killed, including Julie and Brian. Hal and Rhoades try to board the a lifeboat with Nancy and the other passengers, but the ropes loosen and nearly everyone dies. As the ship sinks, Hal and Rhodes are still alive in the lifeboat. Hal blames himself for the disaster before succumbing to

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. His ghost attacks Rhoades as he tries to recover him.

Cast

Fictional characters

as Captain Celeste Rhoades *

as Professor Hal Cochran *

Lydia Hearst Lydia Marie Hearst-Shaw (born September 19, 1984) is an American fashion model, actress, socialite, and lifestyle blogger. She is a great-granddaughter of newspaper publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst and a daughter of the author an ...

as Idina Bess, secretly the great-granddaughter of Captain Edward Smith *

AnnaLynne McCord AnnaLynne McCord (born July 16, 1987) is an American actress. Known for playing vixen-type roles, she first gained prominence in 2007 as the scheming List of Nip/Tuck characters, Eden Lord on ''Nip/Tuck'', and as the pampered Loren Wakefield on ...

as Mia Stone *

Joseph Gatt Joseph Gatt (born 3 December 1971) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the films ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013) and '' Dumbo'' (2019), and the television series ''Banshee'' and ''Game of Thrones''. Gatt has also provided ...

as Brian Andrews * Derek Yates as Jackson Stone * Jhey Castles as Julie * Al Coronel as Hector * Kendall Chappell as Regina * Giovannie Pico as Nancy ** Sophie Jordan Collins as Nancy's ghost * Michael J. Chen as Parker * Joseph Massaquoi as Sykes * Maurice Johnson as Collins * Hevanly Reyna as Elizabeth *

Neil Dickson Neil Dickson (born 26 November 1950) is an English actor, who has worked extensively in both American and British film and television. Biography At the age of five, Dickson contracted polio, but made a complete recovery a year later. He attend ...

as Mr. Wick *

Jody Jaress Jody Jaress is an American actress, director, writer and jazz and blues singer in the Los Angeles, California area. She began studying acting, singing, and dancing in the mid 1950s. Early life Jaress was born in Ottawa, Illinois, and is the ...

as Mrs. Straus * Micaiah Chen as Adelina * Cami Storm as Adelina's Mom * DJames Jones as Adelina's Dad * Gary Murakami as Buck ** Jai Pellerin as Buck Double * Andre Pelzer as Michael * Trevor Hansen as Charlie

Historical characters

* Xander Bailey as Captain Edward Smith * Brendan Petrizzo as Wallace Hartley * Brittany Daley as

John Jacob Astor IV John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family. He was among the most ...

Reception

Waldemar Dalenogare Neto Waldemar Dalenogare Neto (Porto Alegre, April 3, 1991) better known as Dalenogare, is a Brazilian film critic, researcher, historian and university professor. He was the first South American to join the Critics Choice Association, which organizes ...

evaluated it with a score of 1/10 and said that "whoever sees it, does not believe it: ''The Asylum'' managed to overcome itself (...) I already knew it was a bad movie, the trailer is already a disgrace (...) the bad taste when dealing with a tragedy (on the anniversary of the sinking of the ''Titanic'') (...) It's not a horror movie, as much as the title may lead you to this idea, here you actually have a big joke at the cost of extremely poor graphical effects and a completely lost cast." In his review in ''

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'', Matt Donato rated it 4/10 saying that "while

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harbors Oscar aspirations for its originals, Tubi appears content being the streaming equivalent of SYFY after midnight. (...) I’ve seen worse films this year than ''Titanic 666'', but also too many better examples (...) Against all odds, ''Titanic 666'' is too dramatic and straight-faced for its own good." On Crooked Marquee, Josh Bell rated it a "C−" saying that "is a slow, dull haunted-ship story that takes far too long to get to its meager terrors. Lydia Hearst finds the right campy tone as a descendant of one of the original ''Titanic'' victims who summons their spirits to curse this shameless exploitation of their memories, and AnnaLynne McCord is fun to watch as a narcissistic influencer who exits the movie too early. But the ghosts themselves are tame, poorly rendered apparitions, and the valiant, self-sacrificing captain (Keesha Sharp) makes for a weak protagonist as the voyage predictably devolves into chaos."

References

External links

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