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John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars

(John Carpenter, 2001)

35MM Print

Five guntoting futuristic cops in black uniforms all stand point guns at something just out of view. Pam Grief stands in the center.

Now a cult classic, John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars finds Pam Grier leading a group of Martian cops against an undead army.

Set 200 years in the future on the partially colonized red planet, John Carpenter’s sci-fi/horror/western Ghosts of Mars follows a group of Martian cops led by Pam Grier’s Commander Braddock. The team is dispatched to a frontier mining outpost to collect apprehended murderer Desolation Williams (Ice Cube). Their mission takes a turn for the worse when they find the town filled with the corpses of the miners and a zombie welcoming committee possessed by an evil force that does not want them there. Featuring a score by Carpenter and Anthrax. Also starring Natasha Henstridge, Clea Duvall, Jason Statham, and Joanna Cassidy. (97 mins., 35mm)

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John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, image courtesy of Sony Pictures.

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