#ghosts of Mars

[cinemamind]

Concepts for a fictional remake of John Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars." (for fun)

Each illustration is an homage to a John Carpenter film.

[junkfoodcinemas]

John Carpenter on the set of Ghosts of Mars (2001)

[mykindascary]

[skinslip]

I love John Carpenter's movies. I love that almost his whole career was trying recreate the last 45 minutes of Rio Bravo.

Assault on Precinct 13? - The whole movie is just the last half of Rio Bravo!

The Fog? - Rio Bravo with ghost pirate zombies

Prince of Darkness? - Oh yeah just Rio Bravo with homeless people

Vampires? - Rio Bravo with vampire, duh

Ghost of Mars? - Rio Bravo with undead ghost martian berserkers

Village of the Damned? - Rio Bravo with creepy kids

Now the ones that aren't explicitly Rio Bravo coded are still Rio Bravo coded:

They Live, Escape from NY, Escape from LA, and Big Trouble in Little China? - Just cowboy movies with modern settings. Literally all the main characters are just western coded heroes.

The rest of his films? Well everybody needs a little variety.

[horrororman]

🔪More films that were released on August 24th...

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

#scifi #sciencefiction #adventure

The Witches (1990)

#comedy

Darkman (1990)

#SamRaimi #horror #action #thriller

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

#JohnCarpenter

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WATCHLIST 2023: Ghosts of Mars

[watchmorecinema]

Spooky season is almost upon us so I've been thinking about horror films. I've got my list curated for Hooptober (yearly film scavenger hunt, named after director Tobe Hooper) and I just love how versatile the genre is.

You can have comedies, family drama, gorefest, giallo (like a mix between slasher and mystery), really dumb bad movies, "elevated" horror, high art, psychological thrillers, romantic horror, and more! This is a genre that has over 60 movies just about Santa Claus killing people. You can order your slasher with or without one liners. You get crap from people that couldn't get anything else produced, but also established directors trying to branch out in interesting ways, or debuts from directors that couldn't get established any other way.

You can't tell if it's going to be good or bad just from the concept or even the attached talent alone. Two Australian youtubers with awful, immature content made a movie about "what if Ouija boards were hands" and Talk To Me ended up being great. Oz Perkins starred in a movie where Gary Busey is a talking dog and then goes off to direct The Blackcoat's Daughter. John Carpenter makes the most iconic horror movies of all time and then somehow made Ghosts of Mars, the worst film he's ever done.

It's just rolling the dice every time. Apparently Mattel is making a horror movie about a magic 8 ball that can tell the future. I can't tell if this is going to be a good movie or not, it's impossible without actually seeing it.

[ricisidro]

#JohnCarpenter's #GhostsOfMars (2001), free to watch on YouTube, focuses on 200 years in the future when a #Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post and upon arrival the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.

#scifi #action #horror #movie

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEE4409AA442D9371&si=Uznb3bCSyJIbyXut

[victusinveritas]

An official Brian Herbert post, I'm sure.

[tam--lin]

Ghosts of Mars was not good, not by any means, but I do see the appeal of what it was attempting and frankly I think we need more weird westerns set in space.

[cinemajunkie70]

The happiest of birthdays to one of our heroes, John Carpenter. As far as I am concerned, the best of the best!

[spaceintruderdetector]

John Carpenter scores 'The Ghosts of Mars'  2001

[throwbackmovie]

Pam Grier as Commander Helena Braddock in GHOSTS OF MARS – 2001

@PamGrier

[madamebaggio]

Project Atlas (part 2/?) - Roll Call [1]

I am doing this as a tribute to sci-fi movies from the 1990′s and early 2000′s that I really really like. I hope you guys enjoy this as well.

Not really sure where I’m going with this, but it’s okay ;)

Movies used in the creation of this video:

Event Horizon (1997)

Red Planet (2000)

Sunshine (2007)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Supernova (2000)

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

And the song is the opening of “The Catalyst” by Linkin Park.

Enjoy.

[laserpinksteam]

Film after film: Ghosts of Mars (dir. John Carpenter, 2001)

I remembered it as a slog, but this time I really enjoyed this late Carpenter. I am more of a fan of the idea of being Carpenter's fan than I am his fan: I've never really fully engaged with any of his films. This one is entertaining mostly thanks to finely-tuned acting from the "Martian police unit," especially Grier, Cassidy (who squeezes in her signature laughter), and DuVall, as well as Henstridge, who is a good lead, surprisingly, maybe, given her signature starring role in Species. There are some funnily outdated visual touches: a Power-Point-presentation-like screen change, slow-motion overlays of images, and a red filter signifying the presence of the titular ghosts. The reveal of Kingi's and Lupo's characters ("they used to be miners"), with the ritual of cutting heads off and impaling them on super-fake-looking sticks, makes for a great campy moment.

[horrororman]

🔪More films released on August 24th...

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

#scifi #sciencefiction #adventure

The Witches (1990)

#comedy

Darkman (1990)

#SamRaimi #horror #action #thriller

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

#JohnCarpenter