Review: Ghost of Mars

Cast: Ice Cube, Natasha Henstride (Species I & II), Jason Stratham (Snatch)

Director: John Carpenter

Reviewed By: Clay

Plot: Miners on Mars open an ancient tomb and release the ghosts of Mars. These ghosts possess the miners and transform them into Marilyn Manson knock offs.

Do you really want to see more of this movie? If you watch the film you will not feel the need to waste any more time on this nightmare. 

The Good: The babe from Species is back. She is hot but way over dressed. I wish I could say more but that’s all this waste of disk has to offer.

The Bad: I love sci-fi movies. I love bad sci-fi movies. Ghost of Mars transcends all measure of badness. I feel that Ghost of Mars was the worst movie of 2001. I don’t cast this vote lightly but it’s horrid.

The special effects are classic 70’s sci-fi which would be fine if it were still living in the seventies. Worse yet the costume designer raided Marilyn Mansons closet for zombies threads. None of the zombies were scary and all their efforts to gore it up fell flat. I have had freakier things living next door to me than these half ass zombies.

Bills law of bad guns comes into play again. Crappy guns, crappy movie. The blasting cap grenades were an excuse to throw in some bad pyrotechnics. It saddens me to see John Carpenter put out this crap out, he had a good cast why not use them?

I could write for weeks on how shitty this movie is. I am warning you if you rent or buy it you will regret it.

Bottom Line: This movie taste of Martian ass….

Rating: Four Boxes of wine.