Face of mars ghost series#

The story is well-told, via a pretty complicated series of flashbacks and even flashbacks within flashbacks, as a group of gung-ho Martian police attempt to pick up a transport a prisoner, played by Ice Cube, only to discover that the mining station where he's being held has been overrun by the spirits of dead Martians, who inhabit their host bodies and make them do their bidding. The story basically boils down to the basic stalk and slash as dozens of other 'science fiction' films of recent vintage, but there isn't a lot of time wasted on extraneous plot. The buildings and 'futuristic' train didn't require much. Most of the money apparently went for red dye for the ground. Here, Carpent uses the budget limitations to positive effect. I really wanted to like _Vampires_ and much of that was pretty good, but the small budget really hurt. Given this, _Ghosts of Mars_ is really a pretty decent film and John Carpenter's best in some time.

And why is it that science fiction basically revolves around horror themes? It would be nice to see a really thought-provoking science fiction film that consisted of more than a motley group of people trying to escape from some monster. This is basically the same story as _Pitch Black_.