The Last Days on Mars

Aug 11, 2013

1h 38m

★ 5.5

The search for life is about to end.

Overview

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.

Genres

Science Fiction

Thriller

Horror

Production Companies

BFI

Qwerty Films

Fantastic Films

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Focus Features

MEDIA Programme of the European Union

Prescience Film Fund

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Vincent Campbell

Liev Schreiber

Charles Brunel

Elias Koteas

Rebecca Lane

Romola Garai

Kim Aldrich

Olivia Williams

Robert Irwin

Johnny Harris

Marko Petrovic

Goran Kostić

Richard Harrington

Tom Cullen

Lauren Dalby

Yusra Warsama

Flight Commander Ellis

Patrick Joseph Byrnes

Infected Voices (voice)

Lewis Macleod

Infected Marko (uncredited)

Paul Warren

The forester Johann only wants to warn his ex-wife Sophia: in the village, people are hostile to their "body farm", a forensic research facility in the neighboring forest, to say the least. In the midsummer heat, the smell of decay from the corpses lying around is a nuisance throughout the area. But as soon as he arrives at the site, Johann realizes that the villagers are probably the least of his problems: a fast-growing slime mould has infested the corpses - and is apparently able to breathe new life into the dead. For Sophia, the chance of a scientific breakthrough; for Johann, the last thing he had hoped for in a reunion with Sophia...

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The Last Days on Mars

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