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Haunting of the Queen Mary Reviews

I enjoyed how DIFFERENT “Haunting of the Queen Mary” is, despite its flaws; the best I can say is that it's not generic, and that they should give more opportunities to both Alice Eve as a protagonist, and Gary Shore as a director. Full review in Spanish.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 21, 2023

Although it is far from being a genre masterpiece, Haunting of the Queen Mary comfortably meets the challenge of offering a simple but well-made movie. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2023

…Gary Shore’s well-upholstered film is more ghost story than horror, with twin narrative time-lines offering up something a little deeper than the usual jump-scares associated with the genre…

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2023

There’s some real dramatic heft at play here – but the bloated running time drags it down, and lots of spooky business in the back half might have been better jettisoned overboard to gain speed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 4, 2023

This supernatural voyage, although atmospheric and frequently frightful, runs aground narratively.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2023

Made me seasick as it goes back and forth from past to present.

Full Review | Original Score: c | Sep 18, 2023

A rich haunted horror experience filled with strong craftsmanship and an engaging twist-filled story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 13, 2023

While Haunting of the Queen Mary may struggle to find its sea legs, it culminates into an epic voyage of terror and twists.

Full Review | Sep 2, 2023

When it works it really works. When it doesn’t, it becomes a muddled mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 30, 2023

It’s never as accomplished as Ghost Ship, Triangle, or other primetime haunted vessel comparisons, but it’s still good enough to chill your bones cold like a rogue breeze off the ocean after midnight.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2023

Beautifully shot and with some striking, shocking images, this time-jumping horror tale nonetheless has a muddled narrative, and confusion and frustration eventually outweigh appreciation.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2023

THE HAUNTING OF THE QUEEN MARY is a serviceable horror if you don’t think too hard about all the storytelling details.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 24, 2023

The action is as murky as the ghostly lights on the ship and in the end you feel like the lady at the piano, banging her head on the keys, begging to be let out.

Full Review | Aug 19, 2023

"[Haunting of the Queen Mary is] a sight to behold, a masterfully created visual journey that leaves you yearning for more, but it’s a ghost story that doesn’t make any sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 19, 2023

Atmospheric and clever, there are some strong moments in this sometimes overworked narrative.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2023

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Haunting of the queen mary, common sense media reviewers.

Bloody, shocking horror tale has muddled storytelling.

Haunting of the Queen Mary Movie Poster: Queen Mary is on the ocean, with a huge plume of smoke rising out of its smokestack

A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

It's hard to say exactly what the movie is really

It's not actually clear whether Anne and Patrick a

Main character Anne (English/Irish/Welsh actor Ali

Heavy gore. A man brutally kills several people: a

Sporadic use of "f--k," "s--t," "motherf----r," "g

Prominent Starbucks logo. A child asks for a "frap

Character gulps from a bottle of whiskey while han

Positive Messages

It's hard to say exactly what the movie is really about or what point it's trying to make, but it's certainly not a "positive message" film.

Positive Role Models

It's not actually clear whether Anne and Patrick are doing something noble in documenting the Queen Mary or whether their actions are only self-serving.

Diverse Representations

Main character Anne (English/Irish/Welsh actor Alice Eve) is a smart, sophisticated, self-reliant woman and mother. Her estranged husband, Patrick, is played by mixed-race British actor Joel Fry. Anne's 8-year-old son Lukas is played by 14-year-old Lenny Rush, who has a condition called Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita that affects his growth, resulting in dwarfism. He's shown to be wise and intrepid, but unfortunately he doesn't last very long. A White male character who has a facial wound (his mouth appears torn open) wears a mask to cover it; he's portrayed as grotesque and monstrous and turns into a killer. Most of the rest of the characters are White men, few very admirable. Most other women besides Anne are in secondary or subservient roles.

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Heavy gore. A man brutally kills several people: axe to woman's head, heads smashed, bloody wounds, blood spatters, etc. Woman attacked by creepy hand coming out of her mobile phone; she's strangled and slid across the floor, her head smashed into a mirror. She stabs it with a pen but finds she has really stabbed her own hand. Bloody corpses. Woman with axe in her back. Child in peril, dragged into swimming pool and underwater. Character with face wound (mouth torn into gaping hole). Ghostly woman repeatedly bashes her head on piano keys; lots of blood. Character starts spitting up blood; he becomes covered in it. Child stabbed with scissors, blood spatter on wall. Head-slamming. Throat-slicing. Person's face burned by steam. People are shot and killed. Suggestion of a character dying by suicide with a rifle. Person holds pistol in own mouth. Character's hand crushed in windowsill; it's swollen, bruised. Blood streams from a sculpture's mouth. Animated blood spatters on the title during opening credits. Animated sequence depicts someone being buried alive. Ghosts. Violent threats. Arguing. Jump-scares. Dialogue about suicide. Dialogue about many sailors killed during collision at sea. There's a foundation sacrifice -- i.e. a dead body buried inside the ship that makes it haunted, and characters are possessed.

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Sporadic use of "f--k," "s--t," "motherf----r," "goddamn," "Christ," "ass," "prick," "hell," "damn."

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Prominent Starbucks logo. A child asks for a "frappe" and is later seen drinking one. Several prominent Oreo Cookie packages in vending machine.

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Character gulps from a bottle of whiskey while hand is being stitched up. Another drinks from a flask. Social drinking, wine with dinner. Character takes prescription pills. Cigarette smoking.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Haunting of the Queen Mary is a horror movie set on the titular ocean liner, which is supposedly haunted in real life. The movie flashes between scenes set in 1938 and the present day. It has some beautiful touches -- and some powerful shocks -- but the storytelling is muddled. Violence is quite gory/bloody and includes brutal slayings, heads being smashed, axe attacks, stabbing, throat-slicing, guns/shooting, bloody wounds and splatters, a woman being attacked and choked by a supernatural hand, a child in peril, a severe face wound, ghosts, a person burned by steam, someone getting buried alive, suggestions of death by suicide and more. Language includes sporadic uses of "f--k," "s--t," "motherf----r," "Christ," and more. A character guzzles whisky to ease the pain of a wound, another person drinks from a flask, and there's social drinking and cigarette smoking. A man urinates into a swimming pool. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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In HAUNTING OF THE QUEEN MARY, it's 1938, and the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is underway. A trio of performers, the Ratch family, who are sailing in third class, decide to pretend to be first class passengers and dine in the main hall. Meanwhile, in the present day, Anne Calder ( Alice Eve ) and her estranged husband, Patrick ( Joel Fry ), are working on a book and virtual project about the ship, which is now in dry dock. They bring their 8-year-old son, Lukas ( Lenny Rush ), along, and he promptly gets lost on a "ghost" tour. Back in 1938, Jackie Ratch (Florrie Wilkinson) meets Fred Astaire (Wesley Alfvin), and they perform a dance together. Then something strange happens to David Ratch (Wil Coban); he snaps and goes on a bloody murder spree. In the present, Anne and Patrick find themselves on board the deserted ship, trying to find out what happened to Lukas while the odd Captain Bittner (Dorian Lough) keeps watch.

Is It Any Good?

Beautifully shot and with some striking, shocking images, this time-jumping horror tale nonetheless has a muddled narrative, and confusion and frustration eventually outweigh appreciation. Directed by Gary Shore , Haunting of the Queen Mary certainly takes advantage of its setting, a massive ship with ornate ballrooms and opulent décor -- the dance sequence with Jackie and Fred Astaire is a delight -- not to mention long, creepy hallways and the dank, sinister areas below decks. And David Ratch is a formidable, intimidating villain, clad in a creepy half-mask that covers his wounded face. The modern-day antagonist, Captain Bittner, is also wonderfully horrible.

Unfortunately, what either of them is actually up to isn't quite clear. (The same goes for the story as a whole.) The dialogue is often obscured by music or sound effects, making the confusion even thicker. When it comes to the heroes, some trouble is taken to establish that Lukas is Anne's child from a previous marriage and that he was raised by Patrick. But what's actually going on with this couple -- or, indeed, what actually happened to Lukas -- is harder to suss out. It's as if Haunting of the Queen Mary was filmed by talented humans but edited by an AI that randomly stuck scenes together with little concept of clarity, emotion, or storytelling.

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Is the movie scary? What's the appeal of horror movies ? Why do people sometimes like to be scared?

Some say the RMS Queen Mary is haunted in real life. Do you believe that? Why, or why not?

What can we learn about life in other eras from the scenes set in 1938? What was different then? What's still similar?

Movie Details

In theaters : August 18, 2023
On DVD or streaming : October 17, 2023
Cast : Alice Eve , Joel Fry , Dorian Lough
Director : Gary Shore
Inclusion Information : Female actors
Studio : Vertical Entertainment
Genre : Horror
Topics : Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires
Run time : 125 minutes
MPAA rating : NR
Last updated : June 28, 2024

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Haunting of the Queen Mary: The True Story Behind The Haunted Ship

The ghostly journey that ‘ Haunting of the Queen Mary ,’ Gary Shore’s mystery horror film , takes the viewers on a frightful, gruesome journey that spans two timelines. In contemporary times, The Calders face an uncertain time aboard the tourist attraction ship RMS Queen Mary as they lose their son, Lukas, to something inexplicable and embark on a search for him over the course of a night. Meanwhile, in 1938, another family, The Ratch’s, fall victim to Queen Mary’s deep-held secrets, which take hold of David, compelling him on a deadly path as he drops bodies in his homicidal wake, including that of his wife, Gwen, and daughter Jackie. Across time, one eerie incident keeps these two families and their fates intertwined.

In the film, RMS Queen Mary is depicted as a historical relic and renowned ship with a rich past, having entertained numerous recognizable personalities like Alfred Hitchcock and Bob Hope. Given the significance allocated to the vessel, a natural curiosity is bound to take over viewers about the ship’s connection to real life.

The Queen Mary and Its Rich History

As a ghost tale, ‘Haunting of the Queen Mary’ is partially based on a true story in that the ship portrayed within the film is a real-life vessel with many inexplicable spooky stories tied to it. However, the specific events explored within the film, revolving around the Calders and the Ratchs, are works of fiction. Thus, writers Tom Vaughan and Stephen Oliver, alongside director Gary Shore, who also co-wrote the film, can be credited for the film’s storyline.

Yet, the base inspiration for Queen Mary and its haunted state of affairs stems from real life. RMS Queen Mary , constructed in Clydebank, Scotland, during the 1930s under financially scrutinized circumstances, has been a ship of luxury from the start. In its maiden voyage circa 1936, the vessel offered grand amenities like multiple dining areas, cocktail bars, swimming pools, squash court, and even a small hospital. Back in the day, Queen Mary marked the scrumptious and stylish era of transatlantic travel.

During this time of her history, the ship hosted many passengers, as many as 2.2 million, including famous faces like Bob Hope and Fred Astaire, as mentioned in the film, alongside political powers Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth. Nevertheless, when the time came, the ship left behind its luxurious life and became a wartime vessel in World War II , carrying about 810,000 military personnel. The aesthetic changes that the ship underwent at this time coined its infamous nickname “Grey Ghost” for its speed and repainted look.

As such, Queen Mary stands as a piece of history and has long held the fascination of many. Yet, even more intriguing is her recent past and ongoing present, wherein she exists as a tourist attraction hotel known for numerous reported ghost sightings.

The Queen Mary: A Haunted Ship

In 2008, Time Magazine published an article about the ten most haunted places. Calling back to the reported sightings of a lady in the white, kids by the pool, and sailors in engine rooms, all haunting the Queen Mary, Time named the ship sixth on its list.

Likewise, Bill Winberg , an archivist for the Queen Mary, commented on the bloodied history of the ship and said, “The count that I have, according to the ship’s logbooks, is 47 deaths on board since the Queen Mary was launched in 1936. The vast majority were from natural causes, heart attacks on board, things like that— except for Pedder, a young seaman crushed by a mechanical door during an emergency drill, and Stark, a senior second officer who died after drinking some gin that turned out to be cleaning fluid.”

Off-record, the ship has many more deaths to account for, particularly during its service as a wartime ship. Due to numerous technical complications, many soldiers lost their lives to heat prostration. “We know that during this period, there was a burial at sea every four hours,” added Winberg. “There also are stories of soldiers who would literally jump ship as the Queen Mary left New York, and who knows how many of these people drowned or made it to shore.”

Furthermore, there are stories that linger about a young girl in the empty swimming pool, seemingly the inspiration behind Jackie, who plays hide-and-seek with the guests at night. Stories run rampant about the girl and her ghostly companions who continue to haunt the ship. Thus, there’s no shortage of ghost stories to be found aboard the Queen Mary, which has now become a tourist attraction.

Over the years, many companies have tried to profit off this ship, including Disney, who attempted (and failed) to turn the ship and its infamous B340 room into a haunted mansion at sea. As it stands today, the vessel continues to capitalize on its allegedly other-worldly state.

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Haunting of the Queen Mary combines history and horror to present a dark and gory take on the legendary ship's haunted past.
The film fuses real-life ghost sightings and rumors with the fictionalized story to bring authenticity to the haunted ship's legacy.
The filming style and inclusion of historical details provide valuable insights into the Queen Mary's past as a tourist attraction.

Gary Shore ’s 2023 British horror film Haunting of the Queen Mary combines a piece of history with imaginative horror storytelling to present a dark, twisted, and occasionally gory take on the legend of the infamous retired British ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary. Sailing primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967, the Queen Mary has witnessed a major chunk of 20th-century history, including World War II , making it a relic of the past, now preserved as a museum-cum-hotel in the port of Long Beach, California. But what makes the celebrated ship a great subject for a horror film is its tainted history, thanks to the many deaths and reportings of ghost sightings that have made their way onto the popular conscience. The Alice Eve -led film presents an interesting concoction of fact and fiction, inspired by true events that continue to haunt the ship’s legacy, even long after its retirement.

'Haunting of Queen Mary' Takes Inspiration From Real-Life Ghost Reportings

Set and shot on the actual RMS Queen Mary , Haunting of the Queen Mary presents two timelines to fuse together various aspects of the story and present a complete yet fictionalized account of the hauntings, which reportedly continue even to this day, earning Queen Mary the honor of one of the most haunted hotels in America . Throughout the film, various real-life reportings and rumors about the ship are also hinted at and fused with the story to bring a level of authenticity. While capitalizing on the myths and stories already existing around the luxury liner, writers Gary Shore and Stephen Oliver also manage to infuse elements into the story that highlight the ship’s relevance as a tourist attraction . Notably, Shore’s choice to adopt a mockumentary style, during certain parts of the film, only assists the film’s endeavor to provide valuable insights into the ship’s past that some of the audience may not be aware of.

According to the official website of the ship turned hotel , the Queen Mary was built to replace the aging RMS Mauretania for the Cunard Line in the late 1920s. The Great Depression did cause a scare in the construction of the ship, but a British government loan enabled the successful completion of the ambitious ocean liner. Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, Queen Mary set sail for her maiden voyage on May 27, 1936, quickly becoming one of the foremost express superliners crossing the Atlantic regularly . As per the legend associated with the naming of the ship, it was upon King George V’s insistence that the ship was named after Mary of Teck, the consort of His Majesty.

World's Most Haunted Ship Shares a Long History

Alice Eve looking up in Haunting of the Queen Mary

According to the Queen Mary website, the beginning of World War II saw the ship’s transformation into a troopship. Along with its new running mate Queen Elizabeth, the ship was the largest and fastest troopship functioning during the way. The ship’s grey repaint and incredible speed earned it the moniker “Grey Ghost.” Among Queen Mary's decorated guest list was the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , who also gets a mention in the movie. Post-war, the ship was refitted for passenger service, and it dominated the transatlantic passenger trade route before the arrival of transatlantic flights in the late 50s decided the fate of the iconic ship.

Per Press-Telegram , in 1967, the ship was retired, and it was bought by the City of Long Beach to be turned into a floating hotel and tourist attraction. In May 1971, Queen Mary was opened for tourists intending to explore the rich history and experience the time capsule that the ship served as . At one point in time, the ship was also part of Disney’s plans for a huge attraction known as DisneySea, which was expected to prop up around the docked ship. Since its opening as a tourist attraction, the ship has seen many closures owing to different reasons, including financial uncertainties and the COVID-19 pandemic, but the ship continues to serve visitors looking to deep-dive into its rich past.

Real Claims of Hauntings Inspire Events in 'Haunting of Queen Mary'

Apart from its historical relevance, Queen Mary has gained great exposure due to its notorious history as the sight of many deaths, some of which are included in the film. Bill Winberg , the archivist for the line, told the Los Angeles Times at least 47 deaths have happened on board since Queen Mary’s first voyage in 1936 . Many of these deaths can be attributed to occupational hazards, such as the one accident portrayed in Haunting of the Queen Mary, when a boiler room worker is exposed to hot steam, accidentally. One of the major mishaps is also highlighted in the film when the ship’s current captain, Bittner ( Dorian Lough ), points out to Alice Eve’s Anne Calder and Joel Fry ’s Patrick Calder an event that really did happen. As BBC reports , on October 2, 1942, Queen Mary pierced through its escort ship HMS Curacoa accidentally, killing 239 people onboard and leaving only 99 survivors . The haunting reality of this incident lies in the fact that the ship was ordered to proceed forward without halting for rescue, due to the risk of U-boat attacks during the war.

Other events, reports of which have contributed to the ship’s place in Time’s “Top 10 Haunted Places,” are also covered in Haunting of Queen Mary. World Of Cruising states that one of the most haunted areas of the ship includes a first-class swimming pool , most frequented by the spirits of Jacqueline “Jackie” Torin, a young girl who drowned in the swimming pool, and Jackie Ratch ( Florrie May Wilkinson ) who was murdered by her possessed father David Ratch ( Wil Coban ). The film also takes from the reporting of 18-year-old crew member John Pedder’s spirit being seen roaming around the “watertight door #13,” which crushed him to death in 1966.

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A major hotspot for hauntings remains the stateroom B340 , which is portrayed as the sight of multiple murders carried out by David Ratch in the film after he's possessed by the spirit of Edward Clark, the crewman who was killed as part of the "foundation sacrifice." A British third-class passenger passed away in the room in 1948 and the room has been at the center of many supernatural activities ever since. Visitors to the hotel can rent the stateroom B340, touted to be one of the most haunted places on Queen Mary . Apart from the ghost sightings, Haunting of Queen Mary also includes various other real-life details surrounding the luxury liner. In one of the early scenes, Jackie meets actor-dancer Fred Astaire , who invites her for a dance in one-off brighter moments of the film. In real life , Fred Astaire did travel on the ocean liner on June 2, 1939. Early in the film, a tour guide is also heard talking about the infamous “Lady in White,” who also appears in one gory scene, beating her face to a pulp on her beloved piano.

To this day, the continued efforts of the various promoters, who have held control of the ship through the decades, have only further propelled the myth of the haunted ship around Queen Mary , thanks to the marketing efforts which are also reflected in the film. Interestingly, the film's producer Brett Tomberlin also commented on the eery nature of the ship's environment. While some have called the hauntings to be fueled by illusions and ill-founded legends, others stick to the widely-held belief that the treacherous, blood-stained history of the ship continues to haunt the rooms and corridors of the world-famous liner.

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The 2023 film "Haunting of Queen Mary" explores the terrifying history of the real-world RMS Queen Mary, a haunted ship with a thrilling past.
The film was shot on location on the actual ocean liner, adding an authentic touch to the spine-tingling narrative that spans two different time periods.
The Queen Mary has a history of mysterious deaths and paranormal activity, attracting paranormal investigators and ghost enthusiasts. Visitors can take haunted tours or stay in the infamous Room B340.

The 2023 film Haunting of Queen Mary dives into the horrors of the real-world RMS Queen Mary, with a great many of the included ghost stories coming from the experiences of guests upon the legendary " Most Haunted Ship in America ." Now a hotel experience in California, the retired British ocean liner has a thrilling history that has long captivated ghost enthusiasts and paranormal investigators. From the RMS Queen Mary's extravagance to its immense number of accidental deaths, it's the perfect setting for a thrilling horror movie.

Not only is Haunting of the Queen Mary (directed by Dracula Untold director Gary Shore ) set on the actual ocean liner but it was filmed there as well. This adds an exhilarating level of authenticity to the film, which jumps back and forth between two time periods aboard the ship. First, a family of the 1930s believed they were in for a voyage of rare extravagance but ended up on a cruise of horrors instead. Then, a modern family climbs aboard the ship and finds themselves disturbingly connected to the Queen Mary's horrible past. Beyond this spine-tingling narrative, however, lies the actual ship, which is said to be just as eerie.

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The RMS Queen Mary's History: Cruises, WWII & Hotel Uses Explained

The RMS Queen Mary was built at the height of ocean travel extravagance. According to the Queen Mary's official website , construction began for the ship in 1930 in Clydebank, Scotland, six years before it would take its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, in 1936. The massive ocean liner boasted five dining areas and lounges, two cocktail bars with swimming pools, a ballroom, and a hospital. The Queen Mary was the pinnacle of luxury travel and only transported the elite, from movie stars and singers to political figures like Winston Churchhill. Throughout its years as a cruise ship, it transported some 2.2 million passengers.

During World War II, England was in desperate need of ships, so the Queen Mary was temporarily turned into a transport ship for some 810,000 military personnel. It was stripped of all its luxury, painted grey, and dubbed " The Grey Ghost ." After the war's end, however, the ship was restored to her former glory and transported high-class passengers between England and the United States for several more decades. However, when air travel grew in popularity, the need for a ship like the Queen Mary was lessened. She took her final voyage on December 9, 1967, and has called the coast of Southern California her home ever since. Now, the Queen Mary is a floating Hotel and Event Venue.

Dozens Of People Have Reportedly Died On The RMS Queen Mary

Throughout the various stages of its history, the Queen Mary has gained a reputation for the mysterious number of deaths that have happened within its walls. In less than 100 years, 16 crew members and 41 passengers have died onboard (via Houston Maritime ). Though high numbers like this would typically be associated with some massive-scale accident, most of these have been listed in the ship's logs as being from " natural causes." However, there have been instances of terrible accidents as well. An example of this is the ship's mechanic, who was crushed by a door during a routine emergency evacuation, and a young girl, reportedly named Jacqueline Torin, who drowned in one of the ship's swimming pools.

Another significant accident involving the Queen Mary took place during World War II. The ocean liner, filled with soldiers, accidentally crashed into its escort ship, the HMS Curacoa, and though everyone aboard Queen Mary survived, the Curacoa lost 239 souls. This is why, among the many hauntings reported on the iconic ship since the 1960s, sightings of soldiers are among the most common—but these are far from the only alleged ghost sightings on the Queen Mary.

Is The Queen Mary Haunted? Real Claims & Paranormal Investigations Explained

The RMS Queen Mary has welcomed guests to stay on board for decades, advertising luxury and a rare opportunity to be immersed in history. During this time, hundreds of passengers have stayed onboard, with many reporting a lot of strange goings on within the rooms, pools, and vintage dining rooms. The engine room in which the Queen Mary mechanic was crushed to death is said to be frequented by a man wearing overalls who asks who has seen his wrench before disappearing, with the occasional sound of screams of pain heard in the vicinity.

Other typical reports include the sounds of a young girl crying near the pool, thought to be little Jacqueline Torin's ghost, and the apparition of a man named John Henry, whose body is said to have been discovered in the boiler room. Still, it's difficult to say whether these are the result of real spirits of the active imaginations of passengers. To determine whether the ship was really haunted, the Queen Mary's management hired famed paranormal investigator Christopher Chacon, who came aboard in the 1990s to test the ship in its entirety.

According to Dread Central , this investigation spanned 18 months and involved a variety of state-of-the-art instruments and the help of a team of scientists, including physicists, medical doctors, and chemists. After the investigation, Chacon stated that he determined that the Queen Mary averaged three " events" per hour, with about 60 percent of these resulting from explainable factors. This leaves about 40 percent to be considered anomalous.

Years later, Queen Mary's paranormal activity seems not to have lessened, with the filming crew for Haunting of Queen Mary reporting several spooky instances while filming on location. The film's producer, Brett Tomberlin, explained (via Press-Telegram ) that parts of the ship were under construction during filming, and they were forbidden from entering those areas. However, they were constantly being chastised by the ship's staff, who reported wet footprints in the closed rooms—though the crew were adamant they never trespassed. " I never saw anything, " Tomberlin said, " but I can definitely tell you I can understand why people say they’ve seen things or felt a presence. "

The Cursed B340 Room Explained (& How It Differs In The Movie)

The most haunted location on the Queen Mary is said to be room B340 (via Press-Telegram ). The room was originally three separate quarters when the ship was still transporting passengers, but when it was remade into a hotel, it was turned into a single suite. Shortly after the Queen Mary opened for business, guests began complaining of strange happenings with the room. Some noted feeling sick or dizzy immediately upon entering, while others reported voices, strange sounds, and even a brief glimpse of someone standing over their bed. According to Stephen Sowards, the hotel's general manager in 2018, the room had to be closed down.

Room B340 remained closed for 30 years, but in the 2010s, it was renovated and reopened for guests. The newly designed room steered entirely into the suite's haunted claim, including an Ouija board, tarot cards, and a crystal ball as part of its furnishing. Additionally, there is an inscription on the bathroom wall explaining how to summon " Bloody Mary " by chanting her name three times while facing the mirror. Still, these additions are more for fun. Aside from the creepy reports from guests, there is no proven history of murder in the room's past as Haunting of Queen Mary suggests.

Did Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Really Travel On The Queen Mary?

Haunting of Queen Mary incorporated many of the commonly reported phenomena of the real-world ship. The tragically crushed mechanic and poor Jacqueline Torin both make an appearance, as well as other ghosts that various guests have seen during their stays. However, what of the living characters that are seen to have traveled on the Queen Mary during its heyday? During the 1938 flashbacks, legendary actors Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are seen to be among the passengers (played by Wesley Alfvin and Maddison Nixon, respectively), and their presence there is based, in part, on real history.

According to the Queen Mary's website , Fred Astaire did travel on the ship in the years following its maiden voyage, but there is no indication that Ginger Rogers was with him. This pair was likely added to the characters of Haunting of Queen Mary because of their roles in the 1937 film Shall We Dance , a romantic comedy that follows a pair who fall in love on a ship sailing from Paris to New York. Astaire and Ginger tap dance in this film just as in Haunting of Queen Mary . It's a clever connection between one of the ship's most notable passengers and another film featuring the luxuries of 1930s water travel.

The RMS Queen Mary Still Offers Tours In Real Life Today

It's difficult to say how much of the paranormal reports regarding the Queen Mary are real and how much is meant to promote both the Haunting of Queen Mary film and the iconic hotel, which is still running today. After all, it was the Queen Mary's staff that hired the paranormal investigator, and the majority of the haunting information available online is directly related to the business itself. Ghost enthusiasts can purchase a ticket to haunted tours aboard the historical ship or even pay to stay in the harrowing stateroom B340 and see for themselves. Regardless, movies like Haunting of Queen Mary prove that such horrors are all about what people believe.

Sources: Queen Mary's official website, Press Telegram, Dread Central, Houston Maritime

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Haunting of the Queen Mary review – tap-dancing horror ride aboard the big ship

With a gory plot that unfolds across two timelines, this feels like a rebranding exercise for the grand ocean liner, turning it into a horror-themed adventure experience

T his horror feature takes place largely on the RMS Queen Mary, the grand ocean liner built in Glasgow’s Clydeside docks in the 1930s which for many years now has been permanently moored in the harbour at Long Beach, California. In order to take advantage of both the ship’s vintage decor as well as its touristy gift shops and scale model displays, the screenwriters have crafted a plot that unfolds across two timelines. One is set in 1938 when a grisly, entirely fictitious murder takes place, while the other happens in the present day as a family interested in history and the supernatural gets caught up in the ship’s haunted legacy. The crisscrossing between the two periods is executed gracefully thanks to some nimble rhymed editing, and there’s some real dramatic heft at play here – but the bloated running time drags it down, and lots of spooky business in the back half might have been better jettisoned overboard to gain speed.

In the 1938 section, a family of grifters – war veteran David Ratch (Wil Coban), his fortune-teller wife Gwen (Nell Hudson) and their young daughter Jackie (Florrie Wilkinson) – try to pass themselves off as toffs to access the first-class dining room. When their ruse is discovered, wee Jackie manages to persuade a table of Hollywood folks to let her audition, a plea that appeals to Fred Astaire (Wesley Alfvin) who lets her perform with him. The whole dance sequence, with period-appropriate choreography and taps dubbed in post and all, goes on for ages, making this a film with the highest gore-to-dancing ratio since cult Japanese director Takashi Miike’s The Happiness of the Katakuris . While the band are swinging, dad David is possessed by an evil spirit and soon there is a great deal of axe murdering, shown in gory detail with the colour processed to make the blood look extra dark, toned to the deep browns of the wood panelling.

In the contemporary section, writer Anne (Alice Eve), her eight-year-old son Lukas (Lenny Rush) and Anne’s on-off boyfriend Patrick (Joel Fry) come aboard the Queen Mary so that Anne can pitch to boss Bittner (Dorian Lough) a new way to make the ship accessible to the public using computers or something along those lines. We never get to hear the details because before long the supernatural stuff starts acting up, but this is a mildly amusing in-joke as this whole film is effectively an exercise in rebranding for the Queen Mary, turning it into a horror-themed adventure experience in order to drum up visitors. Perhaps there should be a sequel that goes up a meta-level and shows us the marketing meeting in which they thrash out whether they should continue pushing the ship’s heritage appeal or go downmarket and turn it into a floating haunted-house ride. Clearly, the forces of darkness won, as signalled by the film’s nefarious refusal to put a “the” at the beginning of its title as common diction would dictate.

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The idea of a disaster happening on the open, yet isolating seas is a terror all it own. From weather to the human element, the possibilities are seemingly endless. And while many have tackled the horrors of the open seas in the past, Gary Shore ‘s Haunting of the Queen Mary dives deep into the heart of what makes a Ghost Ship. Yet, it struggles to stay afloat, taking time to find its sea legs before reaching the core of its terrifying story, Transcending time and space, Haunting of the Queen Mary proves by the film’s end that the human spirit never forgets.

A Rocky Ride

The opening of Haunting of Queen Mary is unnerving, its rapid succession of snippets of truth leaving its audiences in an unbalanced state. Viewers are allowed to piece together what is happening on the ship, just barely comprehending the gravity of horror that has taken hold of the Queen Mary. As the camera moves through the decks, the opening credits cutting the narrative like a knife, we come to understand there has been a brutal murder on board, all while images of passengers in life vests run by. There is the feeling of there being more to the story than we are currently being allowed to see, and the acceleration as each new snippet is presented works to drive the intensity.

While the opening sequence works to grab out attention and demand for us to stay to fill in the blanks, the film begins to show its cracks, the sound editing between dialogue and score competing for effect. These issues with the sound balance follow through the entirety of the film. This is further compounded as many times audiences are thrown into an already existing moment, a disconnect forming as they attempt to understand what is happening in the scene and between characters.

Haunting of the Queen Mary works through two paralleling timelines, one set on Halloween in 1938 and the other present day. After the opening sequence, the film jumps back to earlier in the night before the murders took place, audiences working their way toward an inevitable end. Working alongside is our present-day timeline, a mother and son boarding the now-docked ship whose stories of “hauntings” have turned it into a capitalistic venture of tourism.

Conclusion:

Now, with all this in mind, Haunting of the Queen Mary delivers gorgeous cinematography from Isaac Bauman . There is a rich lighting, coupled with a well-crafted framework, that at times will take your breath away. The film too is unafraid of the gore, the camera refusing to look away. At times, it is coy with its audience, keeping the violence and blood limited to spatter on a wall, the depth of its violence just on the peripheral. Do not let that fool you, it is wholeheartedly committed to its graphic visual presentation.

While most of the Haunting of the Queen Mary did not work as well as one would hope, its ending is a beauty to behold. Honestly, for the amount of time I have spent thinking back to it, I find myself rethinking the film overall. With the essences of Ghost Ship , American Horror Story and Skeleton Key , these influences not always as apparent, they are always present. As the film has its flaws throughout, there is something that sticks by film’s end, delivering one of the best horror twists of year. There is so much information flooded at the audiences leading up to its big reveal, yet some how it all works perfectly in the final moments and delivers a lasting effect.

While Haunting of the Queen Mary may struggle to find its sea legs, it culminates into an epic voyage of terror and twists.

Haunting of Queen Mary was released in theaters on August 18, 2023!

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Arrow in the Head reviews the horror film Haunting of the Queen Mary, directed by Gary Shore and starring Alice Eve

PLOT : Stories playing out in modern day and on Halloween night 1938 show how the haunting of the Queen Mary ocean liner has a devastating effect on two different families.

REVIEW : The RMS Queen Mary is a ship with a fascinating history. It was built in the 1930s to provide weekly express service between England and the United States – and for more than a decade it held the Blue Riband for being the fastest passenger liner on the sea. During World War II, it became a troopship that carried Allied soldiers. When the war ended, it went back to carrying civilian passengers until it was retired in 1967 and docked in Long Beach, California. For more than fifty years, it has sat in Long Beach, a tourist attraction. As you would expect from something with such an incredible history, the ship is believed to be haunted. Sometimes the reasons given for this haunting are questionable (there’s talk of familicide taking place on board, but it doesn’t seem to have actually happened), while others are based in real-life tragedy (during the war, the ship accidentally sank an escort ship, resulting in 239 deaths). Now, with the film Haunting of the Queen Mary , director Gary Shore – who also crafted the screenplay with Stephen Oliver and Tom Vaughan – has taken on the monumental task of living up to decades of legends.

You can tell Shore wanted to honor the legends as much as possible within the frame of his feature film. Not only does the film have a running time of 125 minutes, but it also tells connected stories that take place at two separate times: Halloween 1938, in the early days of the Queen Mary’s passenger liner era, and in modern day, when the ship is a docked tourist attraction that’s said to be haunted. In addition to this, we get an aside about the many celebrities that spent time on the ship, see a news report about the ship being docked in ‘67, and are told about the World War II-era accident. Shore made sure to pack a whole lot of information into this movie, even though it sometimes feels disruptive.

In ‘38, we follow the Ratch family – Wil Coban and Nell Hudson as David and Gwen, Florrie Wilkinson as their daughter Jackie – as they sneak into a party and cross paths with the likes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, aiming to make Jackie a movie star. In modern day, we follow another family – Alice Eve and Joel Fry as the troubled Anne and Patrick, Lenny Rush as their son Lukas – as they visit the Queen Mary with big ideas of writing a book about the ship and maybe making it possible for people not in Long Beach to take virtual tours. Unfortunately, dreams don’t come true for these families. Multiple murders take place on the ship in ‘38, committed by a father who primarily uses an axe, because you have to stick to the tradition of axe-wielding fathers that was established by The Amityville Horror and The Shining . In modern day, something happens to Lukas during a tour, and Anne and Patrick return to the ship later to figure out exactly what’s going on there. It’s not a pleasant time for them.

Neither set of parents are particularly appealing people, it’s difficult to get invested in their stories. The only characters in the film that I really came to care about were the kids. Lukas and Jackie. Rush gives a very engaging performance during his time in the movie, and it’s a shame that he’s largely removed from the film relatively early in the running time. Wilkinson’s Jackie is a fun character who even gets to participate in an extended dance sequence with Fred Astaire, played here by Wesley Alfvin. But the roles the kids play in the story are overshadowed by the adult characters, who are a real drag.

As it makes its way through its overly long 125 minutes, Haunting of the Queen Mary starts to drag as well. Despite telling two stories, there’s not enough substance to sustain that much time and the movie really would have worked better if it were closer to 90 minutes than 120. The way the stories are told can also cause some frustration, jumping back and forth between ‘38 and modern day while also presenting information in a non-linear fashion within the different time periods. Making it more difficult to track all the necessary information is the fact that this is an obnoxiously loud movie, with music and sound effects sometimes drowning out the dialogue, which will already be tough for some viewers to decipher due to thick accents and/or muffled sounds (for example, the David character speaks his lines through a mask). Those viewers will benefit from watching the movie in a format that has subtitles, which the screener I watched wasn’t equipped with.

On a positive note, I did appreciate how the titular haunting was handled. Some movies try to pass off their hauntings with creepy sounds and doors opening by themselves. Shore makes the haunting more intense here. The characters are in physical danger from these ghosts – whether it be because they might get possessed and possibly turned into murderers, or if the ghosts will just flat-out try to kill them. There’s a sequence I really enjoyed that involved a ghost arm reaching through the screen of a cell phone to strangle someone. That’s the kind of haunting I like to see – and the idea reminded me of something you’d see Bruce Campbell have to deal with in an Evil Dead movie or TV episode.

Haunting of the Queen Mary is interesting and has some good moments, it’s just too long and has some off-putting editing and sound design choices. It’s worth checking out, but you might find that it has worn out its welcome by the time the end credits start to roll.

Haunting of the Queen Mary receives a VOD and limited theatrical release on August 18 th.

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Alice Eve battles paranormal spirits in the latest trailer for Haunting of the Queen Mary, a supernatural horror mystery that has two families violently entangled when sailing aboard the real-life ocean liner on Halloween night in 1938 and the present day.

As Erin, played by Eve, and husband Patrick (Joel Fry) board the infamous ship with their young son Lukas, played by Lenny Rush, their voyage comes to resemble, in mystery and violence, the experience of another family that sailed aboard the namesake ship in 1938.

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‘The Queen Mary’ movie review: This ship flounders in a murky sea of B-movie clichés

Though a handsome and well-acted production, this horror film is lost thanks to uneven pacing and an erratic plot.

Updated - August 19, 2023 05:45 pm IST

Published - August 19, 2023 03:54 pm IST

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The spookiest thing about The Queen Mary was when the usher came up and asked to see my ticket as there seemed to be two extra viewers in the audience. I was all set to have the person sitting next to me swing their favourite axe and end my misery once and for all. That, alas, was not to be as this supposed horror film finally ground to a close after many false endings.

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Gary Shore, who directed the dreadful Dracula Untold has helmed this exploration into all the ghouls that lurk aboard the luxury liner. The RMS Queen Mary with RMS Queen Elizabeth sailed between Southampton and New York. The Queen Mary sailed from May 27, 1936 to October 31, 1967, after which she was permanently moored in Long Beach, California. The ship is supposed to be haunted and runs tours during Halloween of all the scary attractions.

Shore, who has written the script with Stephen Oliver and Tom Vaughan, has incorporated these tales of supposed haunting into the movie. Telling the story over two timelines—1938 and the present day— The Queen Mary follows two families through the scary, gory events aboard the ship of horrors. In 1938, the Ratch family from the third class, David (Wil Coban), his tarot-reading wife Gwen (Nell Hudson), and their young daughter, Jackie (Florrie Wilkinson), crash a Halloween party on the ship. Jackie loves to dance and wants to be in the movies. David hopes a film producer at the party will cast Jackie if he were to see her in action.

In the present, Anne (Alice Eve) visits the decommissioned ocean liner with her son, Lukas (Lenny Rush), and husband Patrick (Joel Fry). She has a proposal for a book on the liner. The book, she hopes, will save both the ship and her marriage.

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Strange things happen to both families. The Ratches are caught out and told to leave the party, though Jackie stays and dances with Fred Astaire (Wesley Alfvin). David experiences a break with reality much to Gwen’s increasing unease and horror. Despite warnings, Captain Carradine (Jim Piddock) is not willing to sacrifice speed as that would mean the loss of the Blue Riband, an accolade for the fastest passenger ship.

In the present, Lukas is separated from his family and meets a little girl by the pool—supposed to be a portal to another dimension and the most haunted part of the ship. Captain Bittner (Dorian Lough), who may or may not be the actual captain but enjoys wearing the uniform, takes mysterious phone calls from disembodied voices.

While very good looking, thanks to Shore’s advertising credentials, The Queen Mary is as long-winded as its meandering corridors. Also, wonder why “Haunting of” was dropped from the title. A ship provides the perfect space for horror films and one with as glorious a history as Queen Mary should have been a cinch for thrills and spills. That is not to be and the action is as murky as the ghostly lights on the ship and in the end you feel like the lady at the piano, banging her head on the keys, begging to be let out.

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In the early twentieth century, shipping lines competed to be the fastest to complete a transatlantic crossing. Such famous ships as the Lusitania , the Mauretania , and the ill-fated Titanic were feted as possible contenders for the Blue Riband, the title given to the ship holding the record. But among the most famous record-holders was the Queen Mary , which held the record for fourteen years, but now stands encased in concrete at Long Beach, California, where it has been used for many years as a luxury hotel and tourist attraction.

With its Art Deco interiors and narrow corridors, this relic of days gone by is also the perfect setting for any number of movies; luminaries of stage and screen including Frank Sinatra, Monty Python's Flying Circus 's Michael Palin, and Javier Bardem have all filmed on board. The latest movie to be set aboard the venerable old ship is The Queen Mary , a British horror film directed by Gary Shore. Here's what we know so far.

The Queen Mary: The Plot

Gary Shore's only previous feature-length directorial credit was Dracula Untold , a 2014 horror that offered an origin story for Bram Stoker's evergreen antagonist set in the late medieval era and was a box office success, despite mixed reviews.

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The Queen Mary is also a period piece. It will feature a split narrative flitting back and forth between the ship's heyday in the late 1930s and the present and tells the story of two families whose lives become violently entangled. The ship has a lengthy history of passengers (and, later, hotel guests) reporting seeing ghosts and visions in its rooms and on its decks, making it the perfect setting for paranormal goings-on on the big screen.

The Queen Mary: The Cast

Co-starring in The Queen Mary are Alice Eve and Joel Fry. Alice Eve's career has progressed from beginnings in British television to encompass comedy, literary drama, science fiction, period dramas , and horror. Fans of Star Trek will recognize her as Carol Marcus, the role originated by Bibi Besch in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), in 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness . However, prior credits included an appearance as a youthful Agent O in Men in Black 3 (2012); as a nanny in Sex and the City 2 (2010), and as Emily Hamilton, the lover of Edgar Allan Poe, in the gothic period thriller The Raven (2012).

More recent work has included a starring role opposite Matthew Broderick in the comedy-drama Dirty Weekend (2015), opposite Uma Thurman and Tim Roth in the heist comedy The Con Is On (2018), and the title role in Bees Make Honey , a 2017 dark comedy helmed by Eve's director brother, Jack Eve. She is also due to appear alongside Academy Award nominee Toni Collette, Moana star Auli'i Cravalho, and Eddie Marsan ( The World's End , Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ) in Prime's The Power later this year in a recurring role.

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Joel Fry, meanwhile, is best known to TV and movie fans for his work as Hizdahr zo Loraq in Game of Thrones . However, since the character's demise Fry has been busy, appearing in a variety of supporting roles on television and film. Credits have included Paddington 2 , Cruella , and Rocky, the roadie friend of guitarist-turned-superstar Jack in the Richard Curtis Beatles-themed romcom Yesterday. Early last year Fry also impressed in HBO's swashbuckling pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death , which was renewed for a second season in the summer. His latest film, the post-apocalyptic drama The End We Start From , will see him appear opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, Killing Eve star Jodie Comer, and Mark Strong ( Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , Kingsman: The Golden Circle ), and is currently in production.

Playing the part of Captain Carradine is Jim Piddock. A veteran Hollywood character actor, Piddock's previous credits include appearances as a British fighter pilot in Independence Day (1996) and the farmer Old George in The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007), as well as bit parts in films including Meet the Spartans (2008) and Get Him to the Greek (2010), and extensive voice work in the Batman franchise, including as Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth.

Also appearing are Nell Hudson ( Outlander , Texas Chainsaw Massacre ), Tim Downie ( Outlander , The King's Speech ), and child actor Lenny Rush in his debut film role.

Everything Else We Know

The Queen Mary has had a long gestation period, being announced back in 2013 by Variety before finally receiving the green light in 2019. Filming began in 2021, using an innovative technique whereby computer-generated backgrounds are mapped in real time onto a wraparound LED screen behind the actors. Production took place on board the Queen Mary herself in November of that year. A release date has yet to be announced.

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Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Crossing Review: What It's Like to Sail This Classic Journey

For North Americans, there aren't many journeys more mythic than a transatlantic crossing on an ocean liner. After all, the modern societies of both Canada and the United States expanded from the endpoints of countless westward boat trips. And generations grew up on Hollywoodized tales of ocean liners that hold the life-changing powers of a magic wand. In a movie, anybody who takes a passenger ship across the sea is forever transformed, as demonstrated by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in 1937's Shall We Dance, Bette Davis in 1942's Now, Voyager, and Barbara Stanwyck in 1941's The Lady Eve. Marilyn Monroe fell for her diamond mine magnate aboard a liner in 1953's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Let's not even dwell on the fateful trip taken by Kate and Leo in 1997. Liners can possess power in real life, too. For example, it was aboard the original Queen Mary that one of the most eligible bachelors in modern history, Cary Grant, met his wife, Betsy Drake , in 1947. That's magic.

Back in Fred and Ginger's day, there were dozens of liners to choose from, all flitting back and forth between the United States and other lands across the sea. Travelers had their favorite lines the way modern tourists favor one airline over another. Now, there's just a single liner left: Cunard's Queen Mary 2 , in service since 2004. If you want to take one of the greatest journeys available to commercial travelers, there's only one choice. In 2024, Queen Mary 2 marks her 20th anniversary as the world's only ocean liner. The ship's specialized design enables it to slice through open waters with a smooth prowess that Caribbean-bound, square-bottomed Carnival cruise tubs could never manage. When the QM2 debuted in 2004, it was the largest passenger ship in the world, at 1,132 feet in length. But a lot has changed since then. Today, it's not even in the top 30. Now the Queen Mary 2 's main distinction for travelers is its role as the sole representative of a centuries-long tradition. The magic is why you book a trip across the sea instead of flying—that, and maybe the dream of landing your own Cary Grant on the journey.

Frommer's joined a transatlantic crossing from Southampton, England, to New York City (pictured above), a distance of 3,418 miles if we had flown instead, to see how such a leisurely mode of travel is holding up in an age when so many of our other traditions are spinning out of control. Links : Queen Mary 2 schedule Queen Mary 2 deck plans Cunard official website Current discounts from Cunard

Queen Mary 2 transatlantic crossing review

Cunard's preceding Queen Mary , the one that transported a firmament of Hollywood stars and World War II troops before jet airplanes began shouldering our transatlantic travel duties, sailed for 31 years, from 1936 to 1967. The first Queen Elizabeth sailed for 28 years (1940–1968), and its successor, Queen Elizabeth 2, operated for 39 years (1969–2008). But Queen Mary 2 was designed with even stronger metal so that she could have a lifespan of about 40 years, so she still has many years of service left in her. This was my third transatlantic crossing on the Queen Mary 2. My first took place soon after the ship began sailing in 2004, and my second came about 10 years later. The span of that experience affords me a rare perspective on how the journey has aged and changed (as we all have) over the decades. My latest sailing, which departed in mid-August, came 4 years to the week after HBO's Let Them All Talk filmed with Meryl Streep aboard, a sure sign that the vessel still holds a special place in the zeitgeist. QM2 's continued popularity was evident on my voyage, because the ship was nearly sold out with midsummer travelers. My trip began in Southampton, a crucial port town on the southern coast of England where, as buffs of nautical history and catastrophe know, Titanic last touched England in April 1912. As soon as I stepped off the gangway into the thick-hulled grande dame that QM2 is, a contingent of classically outfitted crew members were on hand to greet me and remind me that this exercise in slow travel would consciously revel in the style of years past.

Although some departures slip off to other ports here and there, the purest form of the QM2 's transatlantic crossing takes 7 days and 7 nights (for me, Friday to Friday). The ship is actually capable of barreling across the same distance in about half the time. But Cunard Line, founded in the steamship age of 1840 but now owned by the publicly traded Carnival Corporation, has priorities other than speed. On a modern Cunard vacation, the leisurely pace is central to the appeal. You come aboard to relax, not race. There are no ports of call between departure and arrival, just a blissfully clear calendar of days spent at sea. Whereas many mass-appeal cruise lines entice passengers with gimmicks like go-kart tracks and Johnny Rockets burger joints, Cunard steers the QM2 with dignified, bespoke flourishes that suit its British heritage. Many of the QM2 's departures are categorized as Event Voyages , embellished with programming built around themes like literature and West End theater . On my journey, artists from the English National Ballet were on board to host popular workshops and special performances over the course of the journey—above, in the Grand Lobby, you can see the angel's wings made of toe shoes that signified the theme. Even on unthemed crossings, Cunard books an assortment of expert speakers more appropriate to a university mixer than a hula party. Twenty years ago, speakers on my crossing included Hollywood journalist Army Archerd, who had a column in Variety for half a century. This year, the roster included presentations by an expert on mystery novels and by one of Nelson Mandela's bodyguards. The slate is always interesting, and unlike the parades and DJs favored by other major cruise lines, the QM2 's entertainment favors intellectual edification, including bridge tournaments, watercolor art classes, ballroom dancing lessons, and only a single evening of karaoke. It's delightfully civilized. And although the day's schedule is packed with things to do if you're a joiner, rarely do you feel as if you're missing anything if you just want to detach and turn pages sedately on a sofa.

While most cruise ships have converted their lending libraries to more lucrative uses, the QM2 considers itself more of a courtly mode of transportation than a floating circus. So the ship proudly maintains a current, well-curated library on Deck 8. A library might seem like a minor detail, but it speaks loudly (ssh!) about how this ocean liner encourages guests to travel. On other cruises, as soon as you board you're competing for port excursion slots or tickets to shows. But on the QM2, guests first make sure their reading material is set. Even before we left Southampton, regular guests of the QM2 —you'll be surprised at how many of your fellow passengers take this journey frequently instead of flying, and in fact, the real habitués would gather to mingle—were already selecting books (two titles at a time). The New York Times once called this ship "a floating distillation of English inclinations and values," but that might be a little misleading because the line's founder was born in Canada, the ship was built in France, and the crew hails from around the globe. But the same Times journalist also wrote, "a crossing is an interior as much as exterior voyage," a phrase that captures the experience more aptly. There will be cocktails, and many of them, well-made and proper. On this ship, just like with the major cruises, an add-on drinks package can pretty much double the price of your trip if that's the way you choose to go. But unlike on the big cruises, travelers who prefer to find a peaceful nook and chill out won't be treated as invisible or eventually chased away by a party. The QM2 aims to be more like a floating sitting room, the casino much more reminiscent of James Bond than the Vegas Strip. This is why the average age of your fellow passenger tends to be over 50—but even that is a broad generality. On my crossing this summer, there were plenty of people who were still of working age, there was a decent representation of ethnic diversity, and even a surprising number of families with children (granted, the kids behaved like the type who already knew which fork to use first at a dinner party).

Although the cabins have been refreshed over the years, their comfortable style hasn't changed much in the 10 years since I was last aboard. Everything was in excellent condition, with just a very few small spots of rust on sea-facing surfaces where you'd naturally expect a few signs of wear and tear after 20 years. The twin beds could be joined into a double, and I had a sofa, a desk, and a bathroom with a shower—all very nice. Additionally, Cunard cabins have one unique amenity that gives away the utter Britishness of the brand: electric tea kettles with tea and biscuits that are replenished by the steward.

Newer cruise ships might have perks like interactive TVs and plenty of power outlets at arm's length—these cabins don't. You'll just have to plug your devices in at your desk, the way I assume Charles Dickens did when he sailed with Cunard in 1842. Your cabin might also have halting Wi-Fi connectivity, depending on how the ship's metal structure plays with the signal. Cunard's recently announced partnership with Starlink delivers a wonderfully strong connection, but you might have to venture to a common area to get access. Honestly, though, having nonstop internet connection when you're 1,000 miles from land is, objectively, a modern miracle, and the fact that the fastest Wi-Fi subscription is priced at just $20 a day is even more impressive. Not long ago, it cost that much for an hour.

At least when shipboard Wi-Fi was more expensive, we had less incentive to waste our money on mindless screen-scrolling. When you're aboard something as rare and as stylized as an ocean liner, you should probably savor the sensation of being far from the chaos of life on land. But it's nice to know that technology has advanced to the point where you can quiet your anxieties by checking your security cameras back home from the middle of the Sargasso Sea.

All told, my cabin had enough space (a little under 200 square feet) to feel ample, and soft goods were fresh. It didn't feel 20 years old. This stateroom is classified as a Sheltered Balcony, which means that instead of a glass-fronted balcony, I had a private sitting area in front of a cutout through the hull. It may seem unusual, but the design protects the cabin's glass doors in bad weather. Remember that the QM2 entered service in 2004, a period when ships were not yet lined from prow to stern with glassy verandas—not that any ocean liner could ever be if it intends to deflect high waves. There are glass-fronted balcony cabins on the QM2 's higher decks (about 250 square feet), as well as outward-facing units with a window but no balcony at all (about 180 square feet). There are also inside cabins that look much the same—more than 200 of them with prices as low as $699 per person for the week, meals included. The biggest cabin classes are Britannia and Britannia Club . Most passengers are in this class, and for them, meals can be taken in the biggest restaurant, which has the same name. Cunard may take many cues from the past, but it's not completely old-fashioned: In the years since the ship's launch, dining on the Queen Mary 2 has changed, and strict seating times are one tradition from the past that no longer endures. You don't have to dine in the same place every night (unless you want to book in advance a spot at one of the speciality restaurants, which incur a surcharge), or eat at the same prescribed time, and you definitely won't have to share tables with strangers. The QM2 also has two suite-level classes with their own dining rooms ( Queens Grill and Princess Grill ) for those who want to spend more for exclusive spaces. If you're concerned about minimizing motion, QM2 's designer Stephen Payne has said the ship's main point of balance is about two-thirds back from the bow, so staterooms in that area will rock less than the others.

The Commodore Club at the front of Deck 9 is one of the best hideaways on the ship, and the sooner you know about this area, the happier you'll be. Although it's atmospheric to have a martini (or many) here during the day or night, be warned that after dark you won't be able to look out the windows because the light from the lounge reflects up into the bridge and makes it hard for the crew to see. That quirk is compensated somewhat by the fact that at designated daytime hours you're invited to go upstairs and watch (from behind glass) the navigational activities on the bridge.

Even after the third or fourth days at sea, my fellow passengers were still excitedly reporting the new discoveries of private sitting spaces they had found. This was one of mine, part of a long row of quiet nooks near the waterline on Decks 2 and 3 forward. The waves never got angry once over the course of my 7-day journey (and the seas were even calmer during my July trip in 2014), but on occasions when the ocean does happen to be roiling, such as in the colder months, these seats are an ideal spot to watch the intensity from a safe, stable place. When I'm off the Queen Mary 2 , I think about these seats a lot. By contrast, when I think of the many mega cruise ships I've been on, I can't think of a single nook that made me feel calm enough to make me miss it after the cruise was over. There's a pool at the stern, too, but over three transatlantic journeys I've taken on the QM2 , the North Atlantic weather has never once been warm enough for me to take a dip. I got a day pass for the spa (which is slated for renovation in late 2023) and soaked in that indoor pool instead.

The Britishness of Cunard cannot be suppressed at teatime. Afternoon tea is served each day in the Queens Room (serenaded by the harpist in the background, above), and this daily ritual—finger sandwiches, clotted cream—is popular enough to be one of the few things you have to compete for while on board. Seats fill up, so it's wise to get there at least a half hour ahead on the days you want to have tea.

When you imagine the deck of a transatlantic ocean liner, isn't this what you picture? All that's missing is Kay Francis or William Powell leaning over the rail. This is the promenade that encircles Deck 7, lined with teakwood loungers of a design that has barely shifted since the turn of the last century (cushions are kept in the wooden boxes, behind). This is where you can walk laps around the circumference of the ship when your legs get restless. Even in summer, it can be cold and windy in the middle of the ocean, so be sure to pack warm clothing, even if you don't think you'll need it. You probably will.

One of the many grown-up pleasures of the Queen Mary 2 is formal night. Held at least twice during every transatlantic crossing, the special dress code is eagerly observed by the majority of passengers, who are asked not to hang around public spaces unless they're dressed up. The extra outfits and shoes add some heft to a packing checklist and usually force passengers to bring their larger luggage, but it's worth it to share in the sense of vintage pomp that has dignified the ocean liner social scene since it began. (If men don't have a tux, a few are available for rental in the shops, but they go fast, so it's better to bring your own or a nice suit.)

The ship gives passengers plenty of occasions to parade in their finery, including during regular after-dinner dancing sessions with a live band in the Queens Room (above), held underneath mounted relics given to Cunard by the actual Queen Mary in the 1930s. There are very few traditions in travel that call for a tuxedo, and fewer still that give fans of ballroom dancing the floor.

Behind this room there's a soundproofed disco, but its use is sporadic, depending on the age composition of the passenger list.

The majority of passengers eat in a couple of free restaurants for all three meals: assisted by a server in the main, multilevel dining room; or self-served in the excellent Kings Court buffet. At both, you may eat when you want, and with whom you want, provided the restaurants are open. Cunard is unusual among cruise ship lines in that it doesn't charge passengers extra to order from room service, a perk that appeals to anyone who forgot to pack a gown for Formal Night.

For lunch and dinner, the Golden Lion pub (pictured above) has special Cunard-brewed beers on tap along with some easy pub fare. A few nights a week, a section of the Kings Court is rethemed (culinarily speaking) for either Indian or Asian food from the central kitchen, depending on the night. On those evenings, reservations at the venue must be made as a specialty restaurant with a surcharge (in the $30 range, in line with other cruise ships). There's also Steakhouse at The Verandah, another specialty restaurant, with a wide view at the back of the ship.

On my voyage, the Web-based reservation system for specialty meals had trouble meeting the demands placed on it (losing bookings made weeks before, for instance), but the crew was so well-trained that staffers were always able to solve issues without a fuss.

Interestingly, the Queen Mary 2 has two theatrical spaces. One is used for standard performances (cruise ship–style jukebox revues, comics, and the like) and one typically alternates between a lecture hall and a planetarium (pictured above)—a dome is lowered and guests sit in the middle to watch astronomy-themed movies.

Queen Mary 2 schedule, deck plans, website, discounts

Many major cruise lines have shifted guest information delivery to apps, but Cunard remains resolutely throwback, printing daily schedules that are delivered nightly to each cabin, the way all cruise ships used to do things. There are plenty of diversions on the docket. Just so you can get a sense of the density and type of optional activities programmed daily, here's the full schedule for a single day during my crossing in August 2023. More than any other details I share, this is probably what will confirm for you whether you'd embrace the mellowness of a QM2 voyage or find yourself bouncing off the luxuriously finished surfaces.

One of the more sublime details of a transatlantic crossing is the way everyone tracks the ship's progress across the miles. Every day at noon, the captain announces the weather, ship's location, and trip progress, which you can also track via a special channel on your stateroom's television. Cunard makes sure to mark the spot where the Titanic sank, adding a macabre twist to the navigation. (If the info wasn't available, people would keep asking.) Is the crossing on the Queen Mary 2 rough? Of my three voyages so far, only one had a couple days of what I'd call rough seas, and even then, the ship pressed through them so well I never spilled a single drop of champagne. Two times out of three, though, the waters were mostly as calm as a pond.

Because the ship keeps crossing through time zones, we were instructed to move our clocks back an hour on five nights out of seven. That near-daily habit meant our westbound voyage enjoyed a series of 25-hour days. If you sail eastbound, though, from North America to the United Kingdom, you'll keep losing an hour, and many of your days will be just 23 hours long. That's why I prefer to go westward on the QM2 rather than east: You get more time for your money.

Some regular passengers choose to cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2 because they have pets that they don't want to subject to the stress of airline travel. The ship's kennel, located on the top deck, has regular open hours when passengers are permitted to visit the animals. The scene is a bit like when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers walked dogs on the top deck of an ocean liner in 1937's Shall We Dance— minus the formal wear, Gershwin music, and dashing repartee. There is actually plenty of room to dance up there, though, and the QM2 does have a cute fake fire hydrant for photos.

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Steven Soderbergh Went on a Cruise With Meryl Streep and Made a Pretty Good Movie

It appears that, in August of 2019, Steven Soderbergh used a movie as an excuse to cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary II with Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, and Candice Bergen, and, honestly, we must respect the man’s hustle. Who among us wouldn’t do this, given half the chance? The resulting film, Let Them All Talk , seems built around that idea: It’s basically a hangout picture, a luxurious, two-hour ocean-crossing with these actors. You forgive its flaws, lest you seem like an ungrateful guest. And you wouldn’t want to piss off the host, either: For a guy who allegedly retired from filmmaking in 2013, Soderbergh has kept pretty busy, but he’s kept busy in ways that suggest he’s only making the kinds of movies he really, really wants to make and could drop everything and bail at a moment’s notice. Let Them All Talk is a warm, enjoyable trifle, yet it has a personal edge that suggests an artist who continues to wrestle with the nature of his work.

The screenplay is by the short-story writer Deborah Eisenberg, and despite it going to some surprising places by the very end, the plot itself feels like it was designed to set everything up and get out of the way. An acclaimed American author, Alice Hughes (Streep), is being presented with a prestigious award in the United Kingdom, but she refuses to fly, so her agents get the bright idea of booking her on a transatlantic luxury liner. She brings along two of her oldest friends, Susan (Wiest), a lawyer, and Roberta (Bergen), a lingerie-store clerk. The three women haven’t been together, we’re told, in over 30 years. But because she knows she won’t have a lot of time to spend with her friends on the ship, Alice also invites her earnest nephew Tyler (Lucas Hedges) to act as a kind of minder for the older ladies. Also tagging along, unbeknownst to Alice, is her new agent, Karen (Gemma Chan), who hopes to use the cruise to convince the author to write a sequel to her biggest novel, a book about which Alice has ambivalent feelings and for which, we eventually learn, she borrowed elements from young Roberta’s turbulent life wholesale.

“Let them all talk,” in this case, feels like an instruction to the cast and crew. The film is built largely around conversations (apparently improvised) between the actors, often with Soderbergh’s camera fixed in place, the frame immobile, with occasional cut-aways to the ship’s elegantly appointed rooms, to the quiet bustle of the kitchen and to rows of beautifully plated meals. (There’s a bit of The Trip quality to Let Them All Talk , though nobody ever actually talks about the food in this one.) Soderbergh’s locked-down aesthetic feels not so much like the poetic austerity of Yasujiro Ozu but the chilly stasis of surveillance-cam footage. That’s not such a bad thing, however. We feel like eavesdroppers throughout the movie. While not particularly intimate, the conversations feel personal and candid. As the embittered Roberta, who is hoping to find a wealthy suitor while also awaiting the moment when she can confront Alice about what she feels was a betrayal of her confidence many years before, Bergen displays her trademark slow-burn sassiness: We sense that this woman could destroy us with a single remark if she really wanted to. Wiest, who has always been a paragon of exceedingly polite fragility, hints at darker realities beneath Susan’s polite demeanor.

Streep, meanwhile, captures the airy bemusement of someone who has been living inside her head for too long. The film’s narrative, such as it is, represents a subtle journey of enlightenment for her. When Alice discovers that the ship has another author guest, Kelvin Kranz (Daniel Algrant), a hugely popular mystery writer, she at first regards him as a bit of a rube. When it turns out that Kelvin is not just brilliant but also a big fan of Alice’s work, she understandably softens.

One wonders if Soderbergh sees in their interactions the contrasting aspects of his own persona, the Artist and the Entertainer. Alice, for all her acclaim, bristles that her best work is underappreciated; Kelvin just churns his beloved potboilers out, a few months at a time. Back in the day, the Soderbergh of sex, lies, and videotape seemed to scoff at sequels and remakes and probably didn’t have pleasant thoughts about TV either; this was, of course, a perfectly natural attitude for an acclaimed indie filmmaker in 1989. Still, one wonders what that Soderbergh would think of the guy who went on to make the Oceans movies, a remake of Solaris , and who now shoots Netflix movies on his iPhone . ( Let Them All Talk , I should note, is an HBO Max title.)

But that’s the journey, and we (and he) are better off for it. Despite starting his career off as Mr. Serious Director Man, one of Soderbergh’s strongest qualities has been his facility with humor, arguably the secret to his post-1990s revival. ( Out of Sight is as much a screwball comedy as it is a crime picture. The melancholy Limey is filled with clever wordplay and visual gags. Erin Brockovich benefits immeasurably from Julia Roberts’s comic timing.) In Let Them All Talk , the way Soderbergh slips his way out of a scene can in itself be a punchline: When one person asks another if he can kiss her, and the other anxiously replies, “Oh shit,” you can cut right out and get a good belly-laugh without wallowing in the scorned lover’s humiliation. Sometimes, however, the cuttiness can feel premature: At several points, a scene ends just as it’s starting to get interesting. Yet that, too, feels strangely appropriate. We want to spend more time with these people, but the movie, like the cruise — and, as it’s suggested by the end, like life itself — has a very strict timeline.

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Queen Mary of Denmark’s Fashion Evolution: Floor-length Gowns, Suited Looks and More Through the Years

Queen Mary of Denmark joined the royal family when she married King Frederik X in 2004. At the time of her marriage, Queen Mary officially became a princess in Denmark’s royal family . But as of January 2024, she is the reigning queen consort . Over the course of the last 20 years, Queen Mary’s fashion has undergone an entire evolution.

Ahead, see some of the highlights from Queen Mary of Denmark’s style sensibility through the years.

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King frederik's wife styled up a storm at the paris olympics .

Queen Mary has made styling up a storm at the Paris Olympics her ultimate modus operandi and this week's swimming night session was no different.

The Australian-born Danish royal, 52, was spotted alongside Danish textile designer Helle Trolle leaving the Paris La Defense Arena in a gorgeous waist-defining floaty skirt in a navy and white pattern.

Queen Mary walking in navy skirt and white shirt

The skirt, which was made by the ultimate It-girl brand Ganni, was teamed with a white shirt for Mary's innate touch of classic elegance.

Queen Mary with helle trolle in navy skirt

In an unexpected sartorial move, the Queen ditched her go-to killer heels for a pair of flats. She rocked vintage leather gladiator sandals from Prada and slipped on a tan leather crossbody bag - the 'Marcie' Pochette' style from Chloe.

Queen Mary's Olympic wardrobe

Just days before, Mary was seen alongside her husband as she greeted French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte at a reception for foreign leaders prior to the Olympics Opening Ceremony at Elysee Palace.

The mother-of-four looked supremely elegant in a deep red satin wrap blouse from Jesper Hovring which was tucked into a pair of off-white wide-leg trousers.

She popped on a tan belt to match her Chloe 'Marcie' Pochette' bag which had the strap detached to create an evening-ready clutch.

For shoes, Mary sported the Valentino 'Rockstud 85 Red Leather Pumps' and she rounded off her look with the same layered gold jewellery. Also in attendance were King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium and Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco.

Queen Mary and king frederik alongside Queen Maxima and king willem-alexander in stands

She wore the same look with a trench coat to brave the rain of the Opening Ceremony as they sat with Queen Máxima and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.

Queen Mary walking in white dress and red blazer

Mary incorporated red into two other stylish Olympic looks. On 26 July she attended the torch relay ahead of the games in a white floaty dress teamed with a red linen blazer and nude Gianvito Rossi heels.

Queen Mary cutting the ribbon in red jumpsuit

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Meanwhile, on 25 July the royal was seen with her husband at the opening of the Danish pavilion at the Maison du Danemark on the Champs-Elysées in a red leg-lengthening jumpsuit from Max Mara styled with the ‘Mortimer’ Pecan Leather Top Handle Bag from Anya Hindmarch and the ‘Spagna Brown Embossed Leather Sandals' from Ferragamo.

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Emerson Colonial Theater, 1,600 seats, $249 top. Opened, reviewed Aug. 1, 2024; runs through Aug. 25. Running time: 2 HOURS, 55 MIN.

Production: A presentation by Bill Damaschke, Seaview, Diva Worldwide Entertainment and others, of a musical in two acts written by Lindsey Ferrentino, based on Lauren Greenfield’s documentary film “The Queen of Versailles” and the life stories of Jackie and David Siegel. Music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.
Crew: Directed by Michael Arden. Choreography, Lauren Yalongo-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant; sets and video design, Dane Laffrey; costumes, Christian Cowan; lighting, Natasha Katz; sound, Peter Hylenski; hair and wig design, Cookie Jordan; music supervisor, Mary-Mitchell Campbell; orchestrations, John Clancy; music coordinator, Kristy Norter; production stage manager, Clarissa Marie Ligon.
Cast: Kristin Chenoweth, F. Murray Abraham, Melody Butiu, Stephen DeRosa, Greg Hildreth, Tatum Grace Hopkins, Isabel Keating, Nina White, Stacie Bono, Michael Mulheren, Anna Bakun, Yeman Brown, Amanda Jane Cooper, David Aron Damane, Drew Elhamalawy, Sara Esty, KJ Hippensteel, Diana Huey, Cassondra James, Andrew Kober, Jesse Kovarsky, Pablo David Lauceria, Travis Murad Leland, Michael McCorry Rose, Grace Slear.

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Kristin Chenoweth stars in “The Queen of Versailles” in Boston, while a new “Gatsby” musical in Cambridge takes Myrtle seriously.

A woman in a hot pink mini-dress with poofy feathered sleeves is sitting in a ornately gilded chair.

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Laura Collins-Hughes saw “Gatsby” on July 18 in Cambridge, Mass., and “The Queen of Versailles” on Aug. 1 in Boston.

“It may surprise you,” Jackie Siegel says, “but we are not old money.”

Surprise us? Probably not, but there were some context clues. Such as that she utters these words while dressed to the pink and sparkly nines, holding a tiny, fluffy dog and perched in the lap of her decades-older husband, David, whose capacious, ornately gilded chair suggests delusions of royalty.

So does their home construction project: a 90,000-square-foot house modeled on the Palace of Versailles (because, you know how it is, their current 26,000 square feet are feeling cramped) and built, Jackie tells us, “in the most beautiful place in the entire world — Orlando, Florida.”

The audience at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston got a good guffaw out of that on Thursday’s opening night of “The Queen of Versailles,” the surprising and frequently excellent new musical starring an utterly disarming Kristin Chenoweth and co-written by her “Wicked” composer-lyricist, Stephen Schwartz.

Then again, it may be a sort of genius to stage the world premiere of this show, which has already announced a Broadway run next season, in a city that is fundamentally identified with the origins of this nation and constitutionally disposed to adore old money but turn its nose up at vulgar flash.

Because “The Queen of Versailles,” based largely on Lauren Greenfield’s 2012 documentary of the same name, is as much an exploration of the seamy underbelly of the American Dream as is the very different new musical “Gatsby,” wrapping up its own world premiere across the river in Cambridge. (More on that momentarily.) Like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby, Jackie Siegel came from not much at all, left her humble roots behind and — with a husband (F. Murray Abraham, in terrific form) whose beginnings were similar — reinvented herself on a scale so over the top that strangers can’t help gawking.

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