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GHOSTS OF MARS - (2001)
Ghosts of Mars looks like it would have been a great straight-up horror movie, but unfortunately John Carpenter kind of mixed genres here and turned much of this into a pretty standard action flick. Martian entities are possessing workers on a thriving colony, whereupon they mutilate themselves, file their teeth into sharp points and decapitate those not possessed - parading the heads on spikes. This film actually builds a pretty decent atmosphere, but the haunted, creepy feeling slips through our fingers as the movie simply morphs into Assault on Precinct 13 with aliens instead of gang members - our group of survivors fight their way from stronghold to stronghold - whereupon the most interesting aspect of the conflict is the fact that if you kill one of these things, it's spirit will be unleashed to possess another person anew. Ice Cube feels miscast, but the make-up effects are really impressive and the overall production design great. This has a much better atmosphere than I anticipated - one that really deserves to be in a better movie. As it is, all is wasted on standard action/survival tropes while the most interesting facets of the film are kept at a distance. I thought this would be worse, by it's reputation, but all in all it's still very forgettable.
Discomfort : 6/10
Art : 2/10
Weird : 5/10
Fun : 3/10
Interesting : 5/10
Enjoyable : 2/10
Exciting : 3/10
Overall : 4/10
Art : 2/10
Weird : 5/10
Fun : 3/10
Interesting : 5/10
Enjoyable : 2/10
Exciting : 3/10
Overall : 4/10
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