Clea DuVall, Ice Cube, Jason Statham

A story of human colonists on Mars who must be rescued after becoming possessed by vengeful Martian ghosts.

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R, 98 min.

Directed by: John Carpenter

Release Date: August 24, 2001

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DVD Release Date: December 4, 2001

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  • September 8, 2009
    Watch it for what it is, a low budget action/horror B-movie and try to forget it was directed by the brilliant John Carpenter.
  • April 18, 2009
    "You Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance"

    A story of human colonists on Mars who must be rescued after becoming possessed by vengeful Martian ghosts.

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    John Carpenter has sort of lost his touch. We...( read more)ll, not sort of. This is a completely mindless action movie. In fact, it's almost like a porn movie in that there are scenes of vapid dialog and filler plot, and then scenes with really bad metal playing while everyone is shooting. Just replace sex with killing and it's a porn. Action porn. There's no tension, the characters are weak, and there isn't much of a story to speak of. The back of the box explains pretty much everything you learn from the movie, which isn't much. You could watch it on mute while doing something else and you'd get as much from the plot as if you watched it with sound. If there had been a lot less shooting and shouting and more background into the history and mystery of the events unfolding, it might have been a better movie. As it is, it's just boring. What happened to the John Carpenter of the Fog, They Live, the Thing, or Big Trouble in Little China? Even Escape from New York beats this movie. Even Escape from L.A. beats this movie! So many movies do action better.
  • September 22, 2008
    It was alright.
  • February 21, 2008
    Carpenter's career goes down in flames. Also, is anyone's guess how someone as boring to watch as Ice Cube has an acting career at all.
  • November 25, 2007
    Dear God, what happened to John Carpenter? The man once created genre classics like Escape from New York, The Fog, Halloween. I only heard bad reviews about this and yet wanted to check it out. Now I incidentally saw 10 minutes of the ending and those were pretty bad. Unexciting,...( read more) badly acted and stupid. Not entirely fair to rate it just for that but I most likely won't ever check it out anymore anyway.
  • November 19, 2009
    I liked it.The beginning was kinda slow,but I found it to be pretty good.
  • November 4, 2009
    It's sad when a "horror" film isn't scary in the least.
  • October 21, 2009
    ending is too cliche, but the rest is intense
  • September 16, 2009
    If you cant kill ghost on Earth then what makes you think you can kill them on Mars?
  • September 14, 2009
    It sucks so baaaaad!

    29/100

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  • o0cynix0o
    June 23, 2008
    I like this movie but seriously disaggre
  • lilvance1
    May 1, 2007
    Ghost of Mars is the business real talk and keep up the good work and yall should make ghost of mars 2

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