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Ghosts of Mars - Collector's Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
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By the year 2176, the planet Mars, long inhabited by human settlers, has become the manifest destiny of an over-populated Earth. Nearly 640,000 people now live and work all over Mars, mining the planet for its abundant natural resources. But one of those mining operations has uncovered a deadly mother lode: a long dormant Martian civilization whose warriors are systematically taking over the bodies of human intruders. Lt. Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge, Species) of the Martian Police Force is on transport assignment to bring James "Desolation" Williams (Ice Cube, 21 Jump Street), the planet's most notorious criminal, to justice. Williams has no plans to make Ballard's job easy. What begins as a battle of force and wits between cop and criminal soon turns into something more fundamental: a battle for human survival in the realm of the Martian warriors. It's civilization against civilization as Ballard and Williams join forces in mortal combat with the Ghosts of Mars.
Bonus Content:
- 4K Transfer from the Original Film Negative
- Presented in Dolby Vision
- Audio Commentary with Director John Carpenter and Actor Natasha Henstridge
- Assault on Outpost 13: Scoring Ghosts of MarsInterview with Film Music Historian Daniel Schweiger
- Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars
- Scoring Ghosts of Mars
- Ghosts of Mars Special Effects Deconstruction
- Original Theatrical Trailer
Product details
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 1.37 x 17.04 x 13.59 cm; 99.79 g
- Director : John Carpenter
- Media Format : 4K
- Run time : 1 hour and 38 minutes
- Release date : Feb. 11 2025
- Actors : Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall
- Language : English (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0), English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1)
- Studio : SHOUT! FACTORY
- Producers : Sandy King
- ASIN : B0DNKKS4SK
- Country of origin : Canada
- Number of discs : 2
- 鶹 Rank: #9,207 in Movies & TV Shows (See Top 100 in Movies & TV Shows)
- #741 in Horror
- #2,255 in Action & Adventure
- #4,243 in Blu-ray
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- Reviewed in Canada on August 15, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Just started own small business & will definitely order again FLASHBACKSHAMILTON.
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- Reviewed in Canada on September 25, 2013Verified Purchasecollecting only all time favourite movies that can be watched over and over again. This is one of them. Great casting and a fun action movie that holds up over time. Bluray looks awesome
- Reviewed in Canada on March 27, 2020Verified PurchaseWhat a great John Carpenter movie! Pity it didn't specify it was not compatible in North America.
- Reviewed in Canada on July 22, 2017Verified PurchaseNot the best sci-fi movie, but still worth watching at least once !
- Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2015Verified PurchaseI'm always satisfied when I order from 鶹. It ships to me in record time and the item is always as it's described. Super!
- Reviewed in Canada on December 16, 2017Verified PurchaseVery happy to have this in my collection
- Reviewed in Canada on October 24, 2003Ghost of Mars is the type of movie they don't seem to make anymore. John Carpenter borrows elements from a number of his previous films, most obviously Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, and The Fog, as well as genre staples like Night of the Living Dead, Aliens, and the entire western genre. He also foregoes the excessive CGI typical of a sci-fi action film these days and settles into B-movie territory with gusto. He loves cheese, he loves rebellious statements about society and politics delivered between head bashing action and heavy metal riffs.
In the year 2176, some cops (led by the gorgeous Natasha Henstridge) are traveling to a mining city on Mars to transfer a dangerous prisoner (Ice Cube). They find the city completely empty save for a few bodies, but the prisoners are still sitting in jail. It's not long before they discover a tribe of very angry mutants who seem to enjoy self-mutilation, sharp weapons, and a lot of killing. It turns out that some miners unwittingly unlocked a vault that was keeping some kind of alien life form thingee trapped inside, so we have a little bit of The Keep as well. (Now there's a bad sci fi movie to borrow from if there ever was one). This life form is airborne and takes over people, turning them into speedy zombies that like driving blades through their own flesh, screaming a lot in front of bonfires, and wreaking havoc.
So we get some Rio Bravo (the basis for Assault) action as the cops and criminals band together to blow away the creatures with weapons from the present day. Strange, but today's soldiers seem better equipped than the people in this movie are; it would be like outfitting the US Army in 2003 with muskets.
The head zombie looks like he should be fronting a Norwegian Black Metal band as his role calls for a lot of screaming, waving of a rubbery sword, and Viking action, and the other zombies look like understudies for KISS or GWAR, which lends the film a silly, fun quality. I'm not sure why they're so angry, especially since the humans freed them...
Henstridge clearly cannot act; not sure if Species had a bigger budget than this or not, but that film at least had her running around naked when the violence wasn't exploding on the screen. Her face is very chiseled, but she seems to be thinking of something else (her best 'acting' comes during her drug induced high battle with the demons). Pam Grier shows up, briefly, before her severed head makes an appearance. Jason Statham is always fun with his English equivalent of a Brooklyn accent. Ice Cube, as the criminal James 'Desolation' Williams (er, right) scowls most of the time and gets to do some gangsta action with two guns (check out that chrome plated gun at the end) as well as sport a leather jacket that looks like he wore it to the set that day. Joanna Cassidy shows up to give some exposition and little else.
This is a fatalistic movie, with most of the characters eventually being sliced and diced. It has a typical Carpenter ending, which is always welcome amid the typical Hollywood action endings. There's even a pro-drug message at one point (go Carpenter!)
However, what I can't figure out is how this film, made in 2001, can look cheaper than lower budget flicks Carpenter made earlier in his career. If Carpenter was going for pure B-movie fodder, he succeeded almost too well. In typical Carpenter fashion, the director composes the music himself (apparently with help of Anthrax). It seems hard to believe it even got a theatrical release, given the look of the film. It's like it fell out of 1982 or something, with sets that look like they sprinkled some Star Trek props with red dust. Apparently, people can breathe on Mars now, even with those hot white lights that Carpenter has hanging just out of camera range.
I love John Carpenter, but I have to wonder what's up with his career. He probably has difficulty getting funding for his movies, and I fear another movie like this and he could be off to straight-to-DVD-land. He does, however, get a lot of credit for just not caring about typical Hollywood norms anymore and doing what he wants to do (remaking his previous films).
Ghosts of Mars is a cheesy movie, period. Carpenter clearly misses B-movies of yore, genre films that didn't have to be mega-blockbusters. It's definitely a good cheap DVD pickup with plenty of potential for repeat viewings of the mayhem that ensues on screen (have to love the head zombies excessive screaming and posing). This might offend even Carpenter addicts, but it's a guilty pleasure, completely, totally unpretentious, and fun.
- Reviewed in Canada on April 21, 2002I was quite excited as I sat down to watch this for the first time (cause I'm a big fan of Halloween, The Thing, Big Trouble and Escape from New York), but I did have a slight worry that it may be one of his more poor quality films (Village of the Damned, Vampires, Escape from LA). Unfortunately, for me it was the latter. It started well, but as it went on I got bored because it all feels very unoriginal and sort of pointless.
I thought maybe it would be saved by the action and horror, but it wasn't really. Theres a couple of cool moments, a few cool slow-mo kicks and Ice Cube firing two machine guns at once, but nothing that really makes you root for them. It certainly wasn't tense or scary at any point. The main bad guy (Big Daddy Mars) didn't have any lines (infact I don't think the baddies/ghosts spoke at all), and he felt like he was purely there so they would have someone to fight at the end, as opposed to him serving any real purpose.
John Carpenter uses a flash back story structure which helps the film from being too linear, but I didn't feel a real good sense of structure, no distinct acts. It's basicly boring "character development" for 50 mins, then lots of running around and shouting and then its over.
Now I know some people would say "why are you being so analytical, it's an action film!". But the problem is even if you look at it on a pure action film level it's not very good by todays standards, hell it's not even as good as Carpenters "Big Trouble in Little China" which came out in the mid-eighties!
But I must say I really liked the kills in this film. Flying limbs and heads are always a good laugh. And they really take you by surprise. The other reason I gave this film any stars at all was the very funny commentary by John Carpenter and Natasha Henstridge... It's as if Carpenter himself is aware that it's a [poor]film!
Personally I found the Anthrax soundtrack sort of embarassing, but I know alot of people like loud "jigga jig jigga jig" guitar soundtracks. I thought it was kinda dorky. But it was cool to see Carpenter working with Anthrax on the music (he composed it they performed it).
You've been warned, only buy Ghosts of Mars if John Carpenter's Vampires did it for you...
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Reviewed in Japan on March 5, 2016
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Wolfgang WeissReviewed in Germany on March 9, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars BR Ghost of Mars
Verified PurchaseGhost of Mars, ein actionreicher SF-Film mit mehreren Stars.
- Ryan_fallen888Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the money! Read for more details.
Verified PurchaseTo anyone who is a fan of this movie and wondering if the money is worth it for the 4K transfer.....YES it is. They did a phenomenal job with this transfer. It looks like a different movie in some scenes now, particularly the far away shots of the Mars compounds. It looks like as if it were shot more recently with more recent effects. I've collected a few of the Shout Factory 4K transfers of older movies, because they do a great job. But this by far, if not the best, than one of the best I've seen. The past blu ray and DVD versions of this movie are so awful in quality in comparison maybe thats why, I don't think I could ever watch a previous release again. Some how this transfer made effects and backgrounds that didn't look so great when I was younger in comparison to everything else out at the time, look way better than I could've ever imagined now. There's details you couldn't see in previous transfers. And the sound is ????????????Special Features unlike some previous releases, plus a new one. Highly recommend to anyone collecting this. It's definitely the best version of this film you are going to get, and it is like watching it in a whole new way almost.
Ryan_fallen888Worth the money! Read for more details.
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2025
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MireiaReviewed in Spain on May 19, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Calidad
Verified PurchaseEl blueray nuevo y muy chulo
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Stephan SlaverReviewed in Germany on April 17, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Meisterwerk von Carpenter!
Verified PurchaseViel zu untersch?tztes Meisterwerk!