Combine NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968), RIO BRAVO (1959, by way of Carpenter's own 1976 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13) and FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH (1968), sprinkle with red dust voila! You have this low-rent fright flick. The year is 2176: Mars has been terraformed into a nasty but habitable desert, and some 640,000 colonists mostly miners live in a matriarchal society where tough cookies like leather-clad top cop Helena Braddock (Pam Grier) run the show. The story opens in the capitol city of Chryse: Officer Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge) has been called before a tribunal to explain how she came to be the sole survivor of what should have b...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
98 mins