200 years in the future, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. But when the team arrives they find the town deserted and some of the inhabitants possessed by the former inhabitants of the planet.
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
26 July 1967, Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England, UK
6 May 1968, Edmond, Oklahoma, USA
25 September 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 December 1971, Austin, Texas, USA
8 July 1970, Buffalo, New York, USA
15 August 1974, Springdale, Newfoundland, Canada
February 5, 1957 in Denver, Colorado, USA
26 April 1949, Marylebone, London, England, UK
13 April 1935, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
26 May 1949, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
24 March 1954, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 November 1964, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
31 December 1978, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
26 August 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
13 November 1956, Spearman, Texas, USA
20 March 1971, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
6 July 1943, Montréal, Québec, Canada
April 14, 2011
A rather sturdy modernized mash-up of Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape from New York.August 27, 2001
The acting is so pallid that you're never sure the cast members quite get the jokes.August 24, 2001
Schlocky, sluggish shoot-'em-up.August 28, 2001
Written, directed, and edited with the offhand shoddiness of a day worker thinking about his evening beer.August 24, 2001
A flawed but worthy effort from an auteur whose near-misses are more entertaining than many others' hits.February 14, 2008
Ghosts of Mars is not Carpenter at his best. It may very well be Carpenter at rock bottom.December 31, 2005
A turd wrapped up in a nice bow is still a turd.March 27, 2009
Mad Max Heads for the Angry Red Planet on a Pitch Black Night of the Living Dead.April 29, 2009
Cheesy D grade popcorn guilty pleasure...March 04, 2003
More Mars lacks than Mars attacks and an outing for Carpenter die-hards only.August 27, 2001
Someday we're all going to look back on this one and l-a-a-a-augh.August 24, 2001
A tired and dispiriting affair that takes forever to get going.