Ghosts of Mars

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Plot: Ghosts of Mars may not be one of John Carpenter's finer efforts, but you can't knock the veteran director for staying true to his roots--it's clearly a Carpenter film, reveling in its B-movie...( read more  ) blood lust, and fueled by the director's rock & roll rebellion as well as the sex appeal of star Natasha Henstridge. This rickety sci-fi/horror hybrid recalls Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, with various connections from throughout the director's career--for better and worse. It's the year 2176, and human colonists on Mars are controlled by a political "matronage," with women (for reasons unexplained) holding court in the capitol city of Chryse. Mars Police Force Lt. Ballard (Henstridge) has been sent to retrieve James "Desolation" Williams (Ice Cube), the planet's most notorious criminal, from a remote mining-colony prison. With her ill-fated crew, Ballard discovers that the colonists have nearly all been possessed by ancient Martian spirits bent on reclaiming the planet, turning them into an army of self-mutilating freaks suggesting an unholy union of Marilyn Manson and the sadomasochistic Cenobites from the Hellraiser films. None of this makes much sense, and the shaky alliance between cops and criminals is a predictable excuse for rampant battle scenes between surviving humans and the ghost-possessed maniacs. Exotic weaponry abounds (along with cheap special effects and some laughable dialogue), resulting in the gruesome dispatch of expendable costars Pam Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Robert Carradine, and Clea Duvall. Driven by Carpenter's synth-metal score, this violent free-for-all has a few brief highlights, but it's suspenseless and ultimately absurd. It's not much, but for loyal fans it's probably enough. --Jeff Shannon

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  May 11, 2008

  it was a Good movie just kinda creepy with the evil Alien Ghost Possessing people.. everything else the action and all made everything awesome...

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  April 28, 2008

  Besides Ice Cube who never did a terrible job here the movie was actually pretty entertaining. The make up affects were really good.

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  April 27, 2008

  I have a horrible, horrible feeling that this movie PARTLY inspired Firefly/Serenity. Well, the Reavers in them, anyway. And that makes me sad. But Jason Statham and Pam Grier! LOL.

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  April 27, 2008

  This was a little out there because the thought of anyone from earth roaming around on Mars and actually having oxygen sounds a little crazy but the storyline was good. 5 stars!!

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  March 23, 2008

  LOLZORZ. this movie is thirty kinds of retarded wrapped in a burrito. pam grier is a dude. so is that other lady, the one thats not in movies anymore but she was always in those mid 90's angsty teen flicks. and jason statham has hair sort of. i saw this movie when it came out and even then i knew this shit was bad and i was only like 13 and i loved bad movies, i mean, my favorite movie was starship troopers (and fuck you i still love that movie) but god this movie sucks. fuck you john carpenter. your time is over. the 80's are GONE. you are hereby removed from director-dom.

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  lilvance1

  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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  Clea DuVall
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  Natasha Henstridge
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  Pam Grier

• Rated: (R)
• Directed by: John Carpenter
• Genres: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror
• Released: August 24, 2001
• DVD Released: December 4, 2001

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