John Carpenter, The guy who shaped the imagination of young male filmgoers and a generation of young film-makers of both genders with such thriller hits as ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, HALLOWEEN, STARMAN and JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES this summer will unveil with his 20th film, JOHN CARPENTER'S GHOSTS OF MARS his vision of a future dominated by powerful women. Law enforcement on Mars later in this new dark century will not be entrusted to mere men. Natasha Henstridge, Clea Duvall, Pam Grier and Joanna Cassidy are the toughest cops of the raw red planet in 2176 A.D. when an eruption of spirits from a terrifying past turn Mars into a living hell for the colonizers from Earth.
Carpenter who is celebrated as the most manly of thriller directors is regarded as a film-maker whose heroes are paradigms of ferocious masculinity. But remember that Jamie Lee Curtis was the only character strong enough, brave enough, resolute enough to tussel with the invincible death machine Michael Meyers in the director's HALLOWEEN, a film that wrote the rules for terror movie-making in the last quarter of the recently past century into this one.
Carpenter, one of the esteemed graduates of the USC Film School who pioneered new directions for Hollywood over the past quarter century, personally helped return the horror genre to box office prominence and cutting edge artistic expression with the smash success of his HALLOWEEN.
