Product Details

• Actors: Robert Carradine, Joanna Cassidy, Duane Davis, Rosemary Forsyth, Pam Grier
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001P3SAAI
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #40,595 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

From John Carpenter, the master of horror behind 1998's hit John Carpenter's Vampires and classics like The Thing and Halloween, comes a sci-fi thriller full of explosive action and bone-chilling suspense. Natasha Henstridge (Species) is Melanie Ballard, a headstrong police lieutenant on Mars in the year 2025. Humans have been colonizing and mining on the red planet for some time, but when Ballard and her squad are sent to a remote region to apprehend the dangerous criminal James "Desolation" Williams, played by Ice Cube (Three Kings), they discover that he's the least of their worries. The mining operations have unleashed a deadly army of Martian spirits who take over the bodies of humans and won't stop until they destroy all invaders of their planet. With a stellar cast including Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), Jason Statham (Snatch) and Clea Duvall (The Faculty), as well as explosive special effects, John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is an intergalactic terror fest like you've never seen.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Fun B Sci-fi Movie, August 30, 2009

By	Ol' Sci-Fi Guy (Caz Calif) - See all my reviews

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There is a reason Ghost of Mars keeps popping up on TV, in video, in DVD, now in Blu-Ray ... it is just plain fun. Not to mention that Natasha Henstridge it is ALWAYS enjoyable to look at. Sadly, she isn't even mentioned in the Amazon display of this DVD as the star of the film. As with all Carpenter films, Escape from New York, Escape From LA and so forth, you are expected to suspend all "reason". It is about entertainment. Frankly, I found the special effects very good and FAR superior to the last 50 Sci-fi channel movies that appeared in DVD. If you like Zombies, sci-fi, grade-A actors and actresses, semi-reasonalble plots and have a sense of humor, you'll enjoy Ghost of Mars.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars John Carpenter can do no wrong., April 30, 2009

By	Wayne S. (CA) - See all my reviews

This flick is lots of fun, cheezy, and highly improbable.

The soundtrack rules, and you have ANthrax and Buckethead shredding it to a Carpenter score. Epic!


It's a silly great film. Don't get it twisted.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars My wallet will be forever haunted, April 5, 2009

By	Webduo "HD Fanatic" (Illinois) - See all my reviews

I thought why not... after all, it is a John Carpenter film and he did do The Thing... DON'T DO IT! The fact that someone took the time to put this on BluRay is beyond me. This is nothing more then a VERY low budget "made for tv" movie you'd see on the SciFi channel at 2am. I'll never get that time back - so please take this as a fair warning - some movies are only fit for the $1.99 dvd bargin bin, and this is one of them and only if it was purchased in conjunction with a $1.00 off coupon.