Like science's quest for absolute zero, FX movies continue to break new ground in the elimination of humans from movies -- paving the way for the day when they can bring in virtual actors and be done with it.

Thirteen Ghosts -- a sterile, noisy and gory remake of the 1960 William Castle drive-in classic -- is as close to being free of character development and warm-bloodedness as the state of the art allows. The characters are introduced in a scene that takes a couple of minutes, the ghosts are let loose, and we're off to the FX races. By comparison, of character development, Scream was Anna Karenina.
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IN 1960, when he released 13 Ghosts, shlockmeister William Castle did so with his regular marketing savvy.

Audience members received special viewing glasses with two strips of coloured plastic. Those viewers desiring to see the ghosts looked through the red plastic.
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