The Last Days on Mars

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Movie
German title The Last Days on Mars
Original title The Last Days on Mars
Country of production United Kingdom ,
Ireland
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ruairí Robinson
script Clive Dawson
production Michael Kuhn ,
Andrea Cornwell
music Max Richter
camera Robbie Ryan
cut Peter Lambert
occupation

The Last Days on Mars is a British - Irish Horror - science fiction film from the year 2013 . Directed by Ruairí Robinson . The script is based on the short story The Animators by Sydney James Bounds .

action

The six-month Mars mission Aurora 2 is nearing completion. In 19 hours, the eight-person ground crew is to be brought up to the mother ship Aurora to start the journey home to Earth. Under a pretext, the astronaut Petrovic leaves the Tantalus base shortly before sunset to take more soil samples at an excavation site. He drives to the destination with his colleague Harrington, but is buried shortly after the start of the excavation.

The other astronauts at the base have since found out that Petrovic has encountered a bacterial life form. Mission leader Brunel and astronaut Dalby also drive to the excavation site; while Brunel and Harrington drive back to the base, Dalby stays on site overnight. Shortly before Brunel and the other crew members Campbell, Lane and Irwin reach the hole again, Dalby reports that someone has entered their rover. The four found the excavation hole and rover only empty on site, but footprints lead towards the base. When Petrovic and Dalby reach the base, Harrington opens the airlock, but is killed directly by Petrovic, who just like Dalby has mutated into a zombie under the influence of the bacteria , who can detect non-zombies and attacks them immediately.

The scientist Aldrich is initially able to flee from the attackers. When the four in the rover have reached the base again, Brunel is injured by Petrovic with a pickaxe, together with Aldrich they can save themselves to the separate hydroponics. Due to their injuries, Brunel and Harrington are also infected with the bacteria and mutate; no longer being in control of his senses hurt Brunel Irwin's neck. Campbell wants to get back to the main module through a tunnel in order to send an emergency call to the mother ship from there. During the transfer, Harrington destroys the power supply in the main module and pursues the fleeing Campbell into the hydroponics. When Harrington chases Aldrich into a laboratory there, Irwin locks the door, which means certain death for Aldrich. As the remaining Campbell, Irwin and Lane flee to the rover, Lane is injured in the thigh by Dalby with scissors.

You have to change the rover due to lack of energy, leaving Irwin Campbell and the infected Lane behind. With the last of their energy reserves, the two of them are able to escape the advancing attackers, Lane voluntarily leaves the rover overnight to protect Campbell. When he follows her, she kills herself by taking off her hard hat. The arriving lander cannot be warned by Campbell in time, the rescue team is overwhelmed by the invading zombies. On board the lander, Campbell meets the now mutated Irwin again, who activates the start sequence after a fight. Campbell is able to take out Irwin and put Irwin through the airlock into space, but is himself injured in the face. At the end of the film, he drifts in a stable Mars orbit without enough fuel. Should the infection break out in him, he wants to steer towards Mars to burn up in the atmosphere.

criticism

Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian says: "This smart thriller is a neo-zombie nightmare in space, set in the fascinatingly surreal landscape of the red planet".

background

  • The shooting took place from May to July 2012 in Jordan . The native flora was digitally removed.
  • The digital post-processing was done by the Dublin- based company Screen Scene VFX , which u. a. is also involved in the production of Game of Thrones .
  • The budget was $ 10.8 million. In the USA, the film only grossed a good 24,000 US dollars and around 200,000 US dollars worldwide.
  • In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on July 19, 2014 as part of the Cinestrange Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Last Days on Mars . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2014 (PDF; test number: 142 961 V).
  2. ↑ The Last Days on Mars (2013) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .