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Ghosts of Mars

In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house. In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house. In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.

• John Carpenter
• Larry Sulkis
• Natasha Henstridge
• 516 User reviews
• 110 Critic reviews
• 35 Metascore
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• 2 nominations

• Lieutenant Melanie Ballard

• Desolation Williams

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• Trivia In a 2011 interview, John Carpenter stated he was intentionally trying to make Ghosts Of Mars as over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek as possible. He claimed he was trying to make a mindless and silly, yet highly entertaining and thrilling, action flick where "the universe allows its characters and plot points to be silly without being full-fledged comedies", akin to 80's movies like Commando (1985) , Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) , and Predator (1987) . Looking back on the film and its criticism, he stated he was frustrated that most people thought the film was meant to be a serious horror movie, and feels that he should've made the film more openly comedic and "in on the joke", saying "...it's called Ghosts Of Mars for Christ's sake, why would people take this movie seriously?"
• Goofs During a shot out the front of the police station, a crew member is visible loitering in the shadows while the leader of the Ghosts yodels in the center of the street.

Melanie Ballard : [to Jericho] Let me put it this way. Maybe I'd sleep with you if you were the last man on Earth. But we're not on Earth.

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• August 24, 2001 (United States)
• United States
• John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
• Zia Pueblo, New Mexico, USA
• Screen Gems
• Storm King Productions
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• $28,000,000 (estimated)
• Aug 26, 2001
• $14,010,832

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Want to behold the glory that is ' Ghosts of Mars ' on your TV or mobile device at home? Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the John Carpenter-directed movie via subscription can be difficult, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting. Below, you'll find a number of top-tier streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'Ghosts of Mars' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'Ghosts of Mars' right now, here are some details about the Screen Gems, Storm King Productions, Animationwerks science fiction flick. Released August 24th, 2001, 'Ghosts of Mars' stars Wanda De Jesus , Jason Statham , Rosemary Forsyth , Natasha Henstridge The R movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 38 min, and received a user score of 52 (out of 100) on TMDb, which collated reviews from 905 top users. Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Melanie Ballard is a hard nosed police chief in the year 2025. She and a police snatch squad are sent to Mars to apprehend dangerous criminal James Williams. Mars has been occupied by humans for some time and they have set up mining facilities. The mining activities on Mars have unleashed the spirits of alien beings who gradually possess the bodies of the workers. It soon turns out that catching the dangerous fugitive takes a back seat as the alien spirits begin to rid their planet of the 'invaders'." 'Ghosts of Mars' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, The Roku Channel, and Apple iTunes .

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Sci-fi feature directed by John Carpenter and starring Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge and Jason Statham. The year is 2176 and Mars has been colonised by Earth, but the spirits of the old planet still continue to cause trouble. When a police team travels to a distant Martian mining outpost in search of the mass murder suspect Desolation Williams (Ice Cube), they find the place populated mostly by headless corpses. Williams is discovered locked in the town jail, and when the team is attacked by a mob of miners possessed by Martian spirits, it seems the jail might be the safest place for them all to be.

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• Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Rated ‏ : ‎ Suitable for 15 years and over
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.6 x 10.64 x 2.85 cm; 173.88 Grams
• Director ‏ : ‎ John Carpenter
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL, Colour, Full length
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 32 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ 27 May 2002
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall
• Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Ent.
• Producers ‏ : ‎ Sandy King
• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000063VD0
• Writers ‏ : ‎ John Carpenter, Larry Sulkis

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John Carpenter’s Ghost of Mars Is a Messy Melting Pot of the Director’s Greatest Hits

By Neil Bolt

In 2001, I just beginning to discover the wonderful world of John Carpenter beyond Halloween and his underseen Elvis biopic with Kurt Russell . Carpenter would go on to become one of my favorite directors. Had I known he would make just two more feature-length movies, I’d have made a greater effort to watch Ghosts of Mars in cinemas. It’s the last of his movies that feels like a true Carpenter production — even if it doesn’t sit at the top table.

If you take a gander at IMDb or Letterboxd, you’ll see Ghosts of Mars is the lowest-rated of Carpenter’s 21 major directorial credits. Hell, it’s the lowest-ranked of anything he’s directed. Sure, a large part of that is due to the fact that Carpenter has directed a Mack Truckload of certified classics. Even so, Ghosts of Mars isn’t close to being one of them. You could definitely argue that technically it’s poorer than something like Vampires , The Ward , or even his super low-budget debut Dark Star . But on a John Carpenter vibe scale? It’s unfairly kicked about.

Ghosts of Mars is set in the year 2176. Humanity has — despite the existence of Elon Musk — managed to actually get its ass to Mars and inhabit it. There’s a police force, rural towns, and even criminals!

The story involves all three of those things. A Martian police unit (featuring Jason Statham , Pam Grier, and Natasha Henstridge) is sent to retrieve a dangerous criminal Desolation Williams ( Ice Cube ) from a remote Martian village. It may be remote, but it shouldn’t be as empty as the unit finds it.

By some dumb fortune, a mining team has unearthed an ancient device left by Mars’ original inhabitants. By activating it, a swarm of warrior ghosts is unleashed who subsequently possess the townsfolk. Hard lesson learned: conservation is important, even on Mars.

Our unlikely group bands together with the remaining townsfolk to survive a Martian onslaught.

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You can practically smell the Carpenter beats coming off that. The crook and cop union of Assault on Precinct 13 , the ancient unearthed threat of The Thing , the B-Movie charms of They Live and Big Trouble in Little China , the spiritual body horror of Prince of Darkness , and cursed ghosts of The Fog to name but a few.

Ghosts of Mars is a melting pot of John Carpenter’s greatest hits. That alone would be enough to endear it to me as a Carpenter fan. But the execution — ropey as it can be — actually feels like a throwback. A movie out of time in much the same way Escape From L.A. appeared to be.

Carpenter had stated that Ghosts of Mars was meant to be a silly throwback, not only to some of his own filmography but other action hits such as Commando and Predator . The message was largely lost, and it caused the director to walk away from Hollywood through disillusionment.

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That is an unfortunate outcome, but it makes Carpenter’s refusal to make a film like he used to all the more understandable.

But watch Ghosts of Mars with that goofy intent in your mind and I’m sure you’ll get something out of it. At the very least, it has the best soundtrack for a John Carpenter film that he didn’t solely create himself. Music Producer Bruce Robb brought in the likes of Anthrax, Steve Vai, Buckethead, and Robin Finck from Guns & Roses, and former The Cars guitarist Elliot Easton to create what is essentially the blueprint for Mick Gordon’s score for the 2016 DOOM game. Now that’s a legacy.aa

Neil became a horror fan from just a nightmare-inducing glimpse of the Ghoulies VHS cover and a book on how to draw ghosts. It escalated from there and now that's almost all he writes and talks about.

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• eBay Product ID (ePID) 4023827840

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• Signal Standard PAL
• Rating MA15+
• Former Rental Yes
• Special Features Cult
• Sub-Genre Occult/Supernatural, Supernatural, Sci-Fi, Creatures/Monsters, Western, Ghosts, Adventure, Comedy, Action
• Director John Carpenter
• Leading Role Natasha Henstridge
• Edition Full Screen
• Genre Horror

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