2013 · sci-fi · thriller · horror
The Last Days on Mars
Directed by Ruairi Robinson1h 38m2013
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.
Our read: The Last Days on Mars (2013) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded sci-fi · thriller · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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