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Ghosts of Mars

2000s Horror • 1h 38m

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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