Directed by John Carpenter • 2001 • United States
Starring Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Pam Grier
Dispatched to an abandoned Martian mining town to capture a serial killer (Ice Cube), a squad of space cops make a horrifying discovery: a phantom force that turns victims into goth-like zombies. Rife with winking allusions to director Johnn Carpenter’s back catalogue (especially ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13), GHOSTS OF MARS giddily combines science-fiction, western, horror, and police-movie tropes into an explosively entertaining intergalactic terrorfest as only the veteran genre master could concoct.
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The Others
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar • 2001 • Spain, United States, France
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Dahmer
Directed by David Jacobson • 2002 • United States
Starring Jeremy Renner, Artel Great, Matt NewtonBased on one of the most shocking true crime stories of the twentieth century, this deeply unsettling tale of real-life terror explores the truth of a man many called an abomination of nature: Jeff...
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The Descent
Directed by Neil Marshall • 2005 • United Kingdom
Starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex ReidBrilliantly exploiting our innate fears of the dark and the unknown to maximum nerve-shredding effect, this intense journey into the void is among the most frightening horror films of the twen...
