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Name: John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
Released: 2001-8-24
Cast: Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea Duvall

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars

R
1h 38m
2001

23%

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From John Carpenter, the master of horror behind 1998's hit John Carpenter's Vampires and classics like The Thing and Halloween, comes a sci-fi thriller full of explosive action and bone-chilling suspense. Natasha Henstridge (Species) is Melanie Ballard, a headstrong police lieutenant on Mars in the year 2025. Humans have been colonizing and mining on the red planet for some time, but when Ballard and her squad are sent to a remote region to apprehend the dangerous criminal James "Desolation" Williams, played by Ice Cube (Three Kings), they discover that he's the least of their worries. The mining operations have unleashed a deadly army of Martian spirits who take over the bodies of humans and won't stop until they destroy all invaders of their planet. With a stellar cast including Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), Jason Statham (Snatch) and Clea Duvall (The Faculty), as well as explosive special effects, John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is an intergalactic terror fest like you've never seen.

Director:

John Carpenter

Producer:

Sandy King

Writer:

John Carpenter, Larry Sulkis

Cast:

Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea Duvall, Joanna Cassidy

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

23%

Critics Consensus: John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is not one of Carpenter's better movies, filled as it is with bad dialogue, bad acting, confusing flashbacks, and scenes that are more campy than scary.

Reviews

48 Hills

Dennis Harvey

It’s hard to make a case for this pretty brainless perpetual-motion machine getting the critical reevaluation merited by some of the director’s other commercial failures...

A fun and underrated movie deserving of any Carpenter fan’s affection.

...the public didn't get it, but Ghosts of Mars has great action scenes, some cool tension, and funny dialogue...

No one's favorite John Carpenter movie, least of all Carpenter. But it's much like Carpenter's Jack Burton character - amusingly cocksure in its constant clamoring, prone to the wrong place at the wrong time, similarly accidental in success it finds.

With the synthesizer-heavy soundtrack, practical gore effects, and macho attitudes, the film is instantly recognizable as a work by director John Carpenter.

September 29, 2020

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