John Carpenter’s Ghost of Mars Is a Messy Melting Pot of the Director’s Greatest Hits

In 2001, I just beginning to discover the wonderful world of John Carpenter beyond Halloween and his underseen Elvis biopic with Kurt Russell. Carpenter would go on to become one of my favorite directors. Had I known he would make just two more feature-length movies, I’d have made a greater effort to watch Ghosts of Mars in cinemas. It’s the last…