Blast Off With The Best Sci-Fi Flicks Set On Mars

The eventual colonization of Mars seems to be on everyone’s mind. Probably because the end of life on our own planet seems more and more imminent these days. (Especially if your name rhymes with Free-lon Busk.) But the red planet has fascinated us for a long time.

So now we’re proving it with this inventory of sci-fi movies set on Mars. And it’s an educational effort.

Because, in case you need to make a hasty getaway from Earth, we’ve compiled the best sci-fi movies set on Mars. Note: This means unwatchable stinkers like Red Planet and Doom did not make the cut. Our apologies to Val Kilmer and Dwayne Johnson.

Stranded

Written by acclaimed science fiction author Juan Miguel Aguilera, Stranded stars Vincent Gallo and a team of Spanish actors (including the director, María Lidón) as the first humans to set foot on Mars.

As the title suggests, things do not go exactly according to plan, and the film depicts the astronauts’ attempts at survival with gripping elan and intense imagery.

Interplanetary

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If you like your Mars movies with equal parts dry comedy and very, very wet gore, Interplanetary is the low budget movie for you.

Seriously — some of the practical gore effects in this movie are beyond grotesque, turning the corner into bonkers absurd comedy of the macabre. No squeamish stomachs need apply.

First Man On Mars

If you thought Black Dynamite or Grindhouse were too polished, we’ve got a movie for you. First Man On Mars is a deliberately grimy, unpolished, retro feeling exploitation flick that wears its low culture genre trappings like a suit of armor.

Get your friends together, smoke some of that Martian kush, and have yourself a great time watching this one.

It! The Terror From Beyond Space

It! The Terror From Beyond Space is more than a cheesy, 1950s monster movie. Its plot, a simple story in which a crew flies to Mars to rescue a stranded astronaut only to find a titular terror, influenced screenwriter Dan O’Bannon’s work on bonafide classic Alien — though he admits he stole liberally from any sci-fi story he could get his hands on.

Source: //www.tested.com/art/movies/458897-dan-obannon-and-origins-alien/