Are any of the Thirteen Ghosts from the movie based off of anyone?

Answer 1

I could be wrong, but I don't think so. The movie Thirteen Ghosts (2001) was actually a remake of a really fun old movie by the same name, which came out in 1960. The movie was About a Boy and his family who move into a house that is haunted by thirteen ghosts.

The movie really isn't very scary (it's really campy, actually) but it has a great gimmick to it. The DVD comes with a special "ghost viewing/ghost removing lens" (which is actually just a card with a piece of clear red plastic, and a piece of clear blue plastic). If you look through the red piece, you see the ghosts on the screen, and if you look through the blue piece, you don't (if you just plain look at the screen, without looking through the lens at all, you just see the ghosts very faintly).

Anyway, each of the ghosts has a separate, distinct personality: like, there's an Italian chef ghost, and a headless lion tamer ghost, who has a ghost lion accompanying him, and then there's a ghost that is nothing but a pair of arms holding an axe, another ghost that is just a big head, a lady ghost who always hangs from a noose, etc.

So, I suppose it's possible that the ghosts in the Thirteen Ghosts remake were based on real people. But I think it's more likely that they just followed in the original movie's footsteps and based their 13 ghost characters on those ghosts.

Answer 2

They are fictional characters.