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 the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal — the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back. From TMDB
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60 of 170 · most liked firstGhosts of Mars is a movie that I think is good despite it being very bad and sometimes I feel like I’m wrong to hold that view but it was also Roger Eberts review of the film
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: GHOSTS OF MARS (2001) #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Concepts for a fictional remake of John Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars." (for fun) Each of these illustrations is an homage to a John Carpenter film.🧵 ⚠️Body horror and gore
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghosts of Mars (2001) 🎬🖤 Directed by John Carpenter
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghosts of Mars (2001) is a blood-soaked pulp sci-fi action ride. It's one of Carpenter's final feature films, this movie takes the classic western "siege of the outpost" formula and transplants it onto the terraformed, dust-choked Red Planet. #scifi #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #horrotjunkie
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a small window for a movie this weekend, and it's going to be my last opportunity to see how 2001's Ghosts of Mars has aged As a self-proclaimed John Carpenter uberfan, I hate that there's one of his major works I actually dislike...so it's got one more chance....
negative · AI labelView post →Tonight’s spooky movie: John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars Fun fact: I went to high school with Ice Cube
neutral · AI labelView post →John Carpenters Ghosts of Mars if I'm not mistaken Fun fact, it was originally meant to be the 3rd Escape From movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →This weeks L4W Orca (1977) The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Ghosts of Mars (2001) House of Bamboo (1955) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars is not, how to put this…a well-made film
negative · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #4 "Ghosts of Mars" (John Carpenter/2001) I know this film has lots of haters but I'm not one of them, I love it! Sure it's cheesy but it feels like it is supposed to be and it it tremendous fun. Check it out.
positive · AI labelView post →Ghosts of Mars is such a fun idea, but a bad movie (love you John, but GOM is a mess). I’d love to see it remade with a decent budget by an action director like Chad Stahelski or Gareth Evans or maybe go the opposite way with David Cronenberg or del Toro.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched John Carpenter’s The Ward (2010), his (likely) final movie. Honestly if his name wasn’t attached to it, I would not have thought he directed this. He didn’t write it or compose the soundtrack, so I wonder if this was as work-for-hire job or he didn’t want Ghosts of Mars to be his last movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Right, because Ice Cube was already in the best alien movie of all time, Ghosts of Mars.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've had an edible and it's fucking HITTING. That being said - John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) has one of my favorite lines in any movie. It gets me laughing so fucking hard. Every time. Uno - "You got that right, butchy. I'm not as nice as Desolation. And I'll cut your fucking titties off."
positive · AI labelView post →#nowwatching GHOSTS OF MARS (2001) First time watch & it's finally time to see this. Only two other John Carpenter films I haven't seen 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghosts of Mars (2001) Dir. John Carpenter- Often dismissed as lacking, this film is better than people think. A fun, brutal sci-fi western set on Mars where the ghosts of the past (and past wrongs) invade the present. Second-tier Carpenter ? Maybe, it does have issues but still, bold, fun and tense🎞️
positive · AI labelView post →I’m not going to look it up but I wouldn’t be surprised if Ebert revisited the film more positively, I don’t think someone can love Ghosts of Mars but dislike The Warriors, he was a young man who acted out of passion
neutral · AI labelView post →Escape from L.A. (1996) Also, Pam Grier is always awesome to see. I wish she had her own Carpenter movie where she was the lead. (Uh, and I dont have this shine for Ghosts of Mars, before you ask. Blech.) #filmsky #moviesky
negative · AI labelView post →60. Underwater: Best thing I can say about it, are that the interior sets look cool. Just doesn't do enough of interest with its premise. 61. Ghosts of Mars: Classic case of "lightgun movie". Actors with hokey guns in cheap, sci-fi hallways shooting endless droves of whatever. Camp, but kinda dull.
negative · AI labelView post →Carpenter’s final truly great film (though “Ghosts of Mars” is fun pulp and “Cigarette Burns” is in the top three Masters of Horror).
neutral · AI labelView post →I normally don't get political on here, but I can't stand by and say nothing when so much is on the line. I have to speak my mind even if I lose followers: Ghosts of Mars is a great movie and if you disagree you're a fukking dumb! Pam Grier and Ice Cube fighting Nine Inch Nails fans on Mars rules!
positive · AI labelView post →Personally, I like GHOSTS OF MARS. It's a silly SF action flick that calls back to both Escape from New York and Assault on Precinct 13, but with a Bradbury twist. A fun cast and a great soundtrack. Never understood why more people don't love this film.
positive · AI labelView post →Catching John Carpenter's mediocre GHOSTS OF MARS at the Sameric Theater in Philadelphia. This was the last film I remember seeing at the place. What had once been a truly beautiful theater was now gross and sticky and overrun with rodents. The most depressed I've ever felt at the movies.
negative · AI labelView post →Jason Statham has been either bald or very nearly for most of his movies. I think Ghosts of Mars might have been the bushiest he ever was.
neutral · AI labelView post →15 movie's 1. Communion 2. Walker 3. Parents 4. Hackers 5. Woman in the Dunes 6. The Blob ('88) 7. Cabin Boy 8. The Movie Orgy 9. In the Dark 10. Sugar and Spice 11. The Dirties 12. Cloak and Dagger 13. Ghosts of Mars 14. City on Fire 15. Nowhere
neutral · AI labelView post →“I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie” 🎥 Only because I just got the steelbook in the mail this past week: John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
positive · AI labelView post →[Ghosts of Mars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_of_Mars) by John Carpenter >Set on a colonized Mars in the 22nd century, the film follows a squad of police officers and a convicted criminal who fight against the residents of a mining colony who have been possessed by the ghosts of the planet's original inhabitants. >Ghosts of Mars received mostly negative reviews and was a box office bomb, earning $14 million against a $28 million production budget. >Ghosts of Mars has received a cult…
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghosts of Mars is a based movie because Mars has this oppressive, corrupt matriarchal government led by women where men are second class citizens and predatory lesbians give preferential treatment to willing subordinates None of this worldbuilding has anything to do with the plot It’s awesome
positive · AI labelView post →Every theatrical (so, no TV stuff) movie is showing except for Starman, Village of the Damned, Ghosts of Mars, and The Ward. Yes, even Memoirs made the cut.
neutral · AI labelView post →141. Ghosts of Mars (2001) #filmsky #movies #film #horrorsky #Horror365Challenge
unlabelledView post →Went down to Eglington to do some stuff, and found SHOUT! Factory's 4K of John Carpenter's GHOSTS OF MARS (2001) (SHOUT! Factory 4Ks show up used is RARE. O___O). GHOSTS OF MARS isn't a great Carpenter movie, but even a mediocre Carpenter movie is still pretty good...and LOOKS great!
unlabelledView post →Serious question: Is GHOSTS OF MARS a train movie?
unlabelledView post →I like creature features and body horror, especially when put in the backdrop of space or if the creature is extraterrestrial. Color Out of Space was a cool bit of both. But I also like stuff like Alien/Aliens, Event Horizon, The Thing, and Ghosts of Mars. These are the best examples. Most of the movies that fit this pretty narrow scope are cheesy and more funny than terrifying. Horror is already pretty campy, as is sci-fi. You mix the two and it's just a mess. Although without it, you…
unlabelledView post →Last week, me and @mhofmeyer.bsky.social discussed the brilliant RED ROOMS, and managed to connect it to John Carpenter's GHOSTS OF MARS. In other words: everything a great Movies, Films & Flix episode should be!
unlabelledView post →The first time I watched Ghosts of Mars I made it through the entire movie mostly without comment and then died laughing at the final scene.
unlabelledView post →I watched Ghosts of Mars (2001) This is a disliked film, and yeah, it’s lackluster even though it has some good stuff. Can you imagine casting Pam Grier as a middle aged lesbian cop on Mars, and then just killer her off early in the film??? Make the movie about her!
unlabelledView post →In honor of the recent Borderlands movie.... I'm watching Ghosts of Mars.
unlabelledView post →453/—‘Ghosts of Mars’ ‘Rio Bravo’ begat ‘Assault of Precinct 13’ begat this film, though it also seems to have ties to Bava’s ‘Planet of the Vampires.’ Mars colonists awaken locals, who operate on another plain of existence. Invaders (us) get what for from the ghosts #Horror365Challenge #MutantFam
unlabelledView post →Appreciate the use of Ghosts of Mars despite the film not being in the list www.criterionchannel.com/popular-now
unlabelledView post →I love John Carpenter as much as any normal thinking person should, but Apple suggesting that "Ghosts of Mars" is a "great movie" is playing fast and loose with the word "great" and the word "movie".
unlabelledView post →John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars. Not his best movie but far. Lots of baffling choices.
unlabelledView post →Which John Carpenter film have you watched the most? Which have you watched the least? Most - Big Trouble in Little China Least - Ghosts of Mars What about you? #filmsky #moviesky #horrorsky #johncarpenter #physicalmedia
unlabelledView post →Basically any John Carpenter movie, but especially The Thing, They Live, and Ghosts of Mars
unlabelledView post →Everyone shits on John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars but I fucking loved that film. It is so over the top, I don't know how anyone couldn't enjoy it.
unlabelledView post →In honor of the release of "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars" 23 years ago (!), I explain why "Ghosts of Mars" is awesome: 411mania.com/movies/why-j...
unlabelledView post →JOHN CARPENTER’S GHOSTS OF MARS is the most 7th-grade movie I’ve ever seen.
unlabelledView post →Spooktober Movie No. 27 🎃📽️: Ghosts of Mars Terrible but in a kinda great way. A film out of its time. Would have been great if it was made in the 80s but by 2001 there was no excuse. Ice Cube dual wielding machine guns like a gangster is the best thing about the movie.
unlabelledView post →My Jason Statham 6-film DVD would be: 1. Crank 2. Crank 2: High Voltage 3. Snatch 4. Spy 5. The Transporter 6. Ghosts of Mars
unlabelledView post →Ghosts of Mars (2001) von John Carpenter ⭐️⭐️☆☆☆ #randomreviews Carpenter recycled sich fleissig selbst in diesem herrlichen Camp. Problem sind manche Effekte, die wirklich arg billig daher kommen. Stimmung ist okay und erstmals mochte ich sogar Carpenters Musik in einem Carpenter-Film.
unlabelledView post →not even kidding here, I kinda really loved Ghosts of Mars a lot more than most of the later period Carpenter films I have seen #horror #film
unlabelledView post →This week on the Bad Movie Roast... War of the Worlds 2025 wasn't Ice Cube's first encounter with terrible cheap-ass science fiction... Korey, Martin and Billy look back at one of Lica Guadagnino's favorite films as GHOSTS OF MARS gets Double Toasted!
unlabelledView post →Was trying to figure out when the last time I saw a horror movie that was considered "Good" (not the same thing as one I had fun watching) because Ghosts of Mars was the one before Split Second, and gave up when I had to scroll through my letterboxd past a year ago
unlabelledView post →This movie made #JohnCarpenter quit directing but is it really that bad? Find out as we review #GhostsofMars youtu.be/GW_0qZ4skCM?...
unlabelledView post →Think I'm going to ease into spooky movie season with a John Carpenter film I didn't know about until today (feel free to point & laugh): Ghosts of Mars.
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching another #FirstTimeWatch Ghosts of Mars (2001) #Filmsky #Horrorsky #Moviesky
unlabelledView post →Ghosts of Mars next, today's second movie and my 4th Jason Statham this year #cinema #film #movies #jasonstatham
unlabelledView post →Tonights movie: Ghosts of Mars 🎬 It's Assault on Precinct 13.... on Mars and with some supernatural science fiction horror mixed in. Great music. Great characters. Its a John Carpenter film. Bonus points for Jason Statham having my haircut.
unlabelledView post →Watched GHOSTS OF MARS (2001) (now listening to the commentary, which is very conversational and fun). This wasn't bad! But it is among the least of John Carpenter's filmography. It's weird because it feels much more like a Roger Corman film, but it's filmed in the 2000s with actual money.
unlabelledView post →I've seen pretty much everything by John Carpenter and haven't disliked anything, Ghosts of Mars isn't great but I wouldn't say it's a bad film
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