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Ghosts of Mars Movie Review

Starring: Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Jason Statham, Clea DuVall, Pam Grier, Joanna Cassidy
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In 2029 Earth Colonizes Mars. A group of five officers are being sent to pick up a prisoner named Desolation Williams. When they arrive the town he is in has been desecrated. Later the group finds that a Martian is possessing the bodies of humans and is going to make Earthlings pay for taking over his planet.
Trevor Schmitt, Resident Scholar

A squad of cops head to Mars to escort a dangerous prisoner. When they get there they find that the place is overrun with savage ghosts. The squad must team up with the prisoner and a bunch of others to stay alive and to escape the planet.
Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar

John Carpenter cowrote and directed GHOSTS OF MARS in 2001.

Mars, in the year 2176. Natasha Henstridge plays the character of a cop lieutenant whose mission is to bring back by train to Mars central headquarters Ice Cube, charged of several murders, from a mining outpost lost in the martian desert. She finds the town deserted, mutilated corpses and Ice Cube waiting in the local prison. Joanna Cassidy, a scientist coming from an adjacent mine, is one of the last survivors and tells her that her team had found an alien construction hidden in a mine and unvoluntarily unleashed an invisible martian force that has the ability to possess human bodies and turn their hosts into savage murderers. Soon the dozen survivors left are attacked by the local miners and have to find a way out.

A superb résumé of all precedent Carpenter movies. Recommended to the fans of the american master.

Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar


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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 60%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%




**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Horror film? Yes
Kind of Horror Story - chased by body snatchers/duplicates

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - blonde
Hair type - (woman) medium/shoulderlng, straight
Body type - ample chest & buttocks (woman)
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - Very athletic

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (man) short/standard curly
Body type - muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - Black

Main Adversary
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - is very quick
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 90%-100%
Hair color - brunette (Black)
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
Which planet? - Mars
Not Earth, but in Solar System? Yes
Desert? Yes
Misc settings - prison

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing
Any profanity? - A lot of foul language
Kinds of F/X - Things that change shape/morph - exploding vehicles - exploding bombs - nasty human transformations
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