The star of the movie, though, is Natasha Henstridge ( Species, Maximum Risk) as Lieutenant Melanie Ballard.
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The movie made only half of its $14million budget back at the box office, and it marked Carpenter’s temporary retirement from feature filmmaking.īut while Ghosts Of Mars is one of Carpenter’s lesser films, critically and financially (its aggregate score on Rotten Tomatoes is 21%, if that’s any indication), that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of remarkable things to write about this oft-maligned film. A sci-fi horror mash-up about cops and criminals under siege from an army of Martian-possessed people, it sounded on paper like it should have everything going for it – which we’ll cover very soon – but somehow, none of it gelled into a satisfying whole. Ghosts Of Mars, meanwhile, came out in 2001, a point in Carpenter’s career where he admitted that he’d “burned out” creatively.
He’s the screenwriter, producer, director and musician behind some of the greatest science fiction, horror and action films ever made, including Dark Star, Assault On Precinct 13, Halloween, The Thing and Escape From New York. Even his films that weren’t big hits at the time, such as Starman, Big Trouble In Little China and They Live, have since been embraced as cult gems.
Filmmaker John Carpenter isn’t just a respected genre director.