Titanic 666 is what happens when The Asylum looks at one of the greatest real-life tragedies in modern history and says, “You know what this needs? Influencers, ghost Wi-Fi, and a satanic great-granddaughter.”
This is a movie that dares to ask the bold question: What if we made a supernatural horror sequel to a mockbuster sequel to a tragedy? And then, tragically, answers it.
Titanic, But Make It Spirit Halloween
The film opens in 1912, with Elyzabeth searching for her husband Charles as the original Titanic goes down. She gets into a lifeboat, ropes snap “mysteriously,” people die, Charles drowns, then reappears as a ghost and drags her into the ocean. It’s meant to be tragic and eerie. It feels more like a cutscene from a cheap mobile game titled Ghost Boat: Ocean Revenge.
Smash cut to 2022: 110 years later, and apparently humanity has learned nothing except how to make uglier cruise ships. Enter Titanic III, a high-tech luxury ship sailing the same route as the original, like destiny but with worse design and more ring lights. Captain Celeste Rhoades (Keesha Sharp) solemnly tells everyone they absolutely cannot afford another Titanic disaster, which is exactly the kind of line you include when you absolutely plan another Titanic disaster.
Also boarding the ship:
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Married influencers Mia and Jackson Stone, whose brand is “annoying on purpose.”
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Their superfan Nancy, who seems like the only person not fueled entirely by narcissism and plot convenience.
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Professor Hal Cochran, who collects Titanic artifacts like emotional support cursed objects.
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And somewhere in the basement, Idina Bess, a stowaway with a trunk full of candles and unresolved family issues.
You can almost hear the production meeting: “We can’t afford DiCaprio, but what if we made TikTok versions and called it a day?”
The Asylum Aesthetic™
Being an Asylum production, Titanic 666 proudly bears all their hallmarks:
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CGI that looks like it was rendered on a 2011 laptop that overheats when you open Chrome.
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Green screen work so glaring it feels like half the cast is trapped in a Zoom background.
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Dialogue that sounds like it was written in one draft and dared to improve itself.
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A plot that is 70% clichés, 20% filler, and 10% “wait what?”
The ship itself doesn’t look luxurious so much as “event center in New Jersey,” and the interiors scream “multi-purpose set we will definitely reuse in six other movies.” It’s less Titanic’s grand staircase and more all-inclusive funeral conference.
Influencers, but Make Them Ghost Bait
Mia and Jackson are influencers whose job is… being obnoxious on camera and occasionally saying “smash that like button” with their eyes. They’re the kind of people you’d unfollow in five seconds who somehow get invited to historical cruises.
They wander around Titanic III vlogging, investigating “the Titanic” for content, and annoying Professor Hal with their complete lack of respect for history or common sense. At one point, they witness an actual ghost-summoning ritual in the basement and just… move on. No screaming, no running, no calling security. Just a casual, “Huh, that was weird. Anyway, content.”
If the film had leaned hard into satirizing influencer culture, it might’ve had something. Instead it just uses them as noisy filler until it’s time to kill someone in front of a green screen.
Ghosts, Summoning, and the World’s Pettiest Captain
Down in the ship’s basement, Idina steals one of Hal’s Titanic artifacts and reveals herself to be the great-granddaughter of Captain Edward Smith. Her plan? Perform a satanic ritual to resurrect Great-Granddad so he can… finish the job? Redeem himself? Get a do-over with better navigation?
Who knows. The movie certainly doesn’t.
Captain Ghost Smith responds by calling up the dead passengers of the original Titanic, because apparently nothing says “family connection” like weaponizing a mass tragedy. The ghosts rise, the orchestra plays, and the Titanic III becomes Titanic III: This Time It’s Personal and Also Stupid.
The problem is that the ghosts have no real rules. They can:
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Loosen ropes on lifeboats.
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Possess ship controls.
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Kill engineers and passengers in random ways.
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Walk around in full period dress like a haunted dinner theatre troop.
But they mostly just show up to shove people or stare menacingly until the CGI budget gives up.
Captain Rhoades vs. Plot Gravity
Captain Celeste Rhoades is probably the only character trying to treat this like a real movie. Keesha Sharp plays her with admirable seriousness considering the script is determined to sabotage her at every turn. She desperately wants to keep everyone safe and avoid repeating history, but unfortunately she exists in a universe where:
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The ship’s entire control system can apparently be hijacked by angry ghosts.
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The engine room staff die instantly and no one has a backup plan.
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Distress calls somehow get sent but no meaningful rescue ever appears.
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Lifeboats are still being held up by cursed ropes, because nobody thought to update that system in a century.
No matter what she does, the movie just keeps yelling, “NOPE, IT’S TITANIC, IT HAS TO SINK, STOP RESISTING.”
The Deaths: Kinda Bloody, Mostly Boring
There are kills, of course. This is Titanic 666. People die. The problem is the deaths are weirdly uninspired for a supernatural slasher on a cruise ship.
We get:
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The ghost orchestra attacking Mia and Jackson.
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Engineers killed offscreen to give the ghosts control of the engines.
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Passengers picked off during the chaos.
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Idina possessed and marched to suicide so her great-grandpa can reenact route failure.
But almost none of it is memorable. There’s no clever set piece, no standout shock moment—just a lot of “and then they died” energy. For a movie with “666” in the title, it has surprisingly little fun being evil.
Hal Cochran: Discount Titanic Historian with Bonus Guilt
Professor Hal is there to provide exposition and Titanic trivia in between being extremely useless. He collects artifacts from the original Titanic, which makes him responsible for the haunted object Idina steals. So when everything goes to hell (literally), he decides it’s his fault.
He and Rhoades try to escape with Nancy and others in a lifeboat, but the cursed ropes strike again, killing almost everyone except them. You’d think at this point Hal would say, “Maybe we stop using ropes.” Instead, he goes for “It’s all my fault,” then promptly dies of hypothermia and immediately turns into a ghost to attack Rhoades.
Apparently in this universe, the afterlife onboarding process is extremely efficient. Died three seconds ago? Congrats, you’re now a vengeful spirit with full haunting privileges.
Titanic, Again, But Worse
Yes, this movie is released on the 110th anniversary of the Titanic sinking. Yes, it’s about yet another ship taking the same route and repeating the same disaster. Yes, it leans on visuals and beats that vaguely echo James Cameron’s Titanic, but without the budget, the emotion, or the basic dignity.
It tries to blend ghost horror, disaster film, and The Asylum’s usual mockbuster shtick and ends up with something that’s not particularly good at any of them. It doesn’t commit to deep tragedy, wild camp, or sharp satire. It just floats somewhere in the awkward middle, like a lifeboat of bad choices.
Final Verdict: One Cursed Lifeboat Out of Five
Titanic 666 is cheap, clumsy, and often unintentionally funny—but not nearly enough to be a so-bad-it’s-amazing cult classic. It’s more “background noise while you fold laundry” than “gather your friends and heckle the screen” material, which might be its gravest sin.
Instead of going gloriously over the top, it mostly just plods through its premise:
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Influencers who aren’t fun enough to hate.
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Ghosts who aren’t scary enough to fear.
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A cursed ship that feels more like a lightly haunted conference center.
If you want a moving Titanic story, watch Titanic (1997). If you want rock-band horror nonsense, watch Studio 666. If you want to see what happens when someone pitches “Titanic, but with demons” and nobody in the room says no… then sure, climb aboard Titanic 666.
Just don’t blame the iceberg. This collision was visible from miles away.
