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 claims 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 and near certain death. 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.
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 claims 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 and near certain death. 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.
Note Spoilers.
One of the crew gets impaled in the stomach by a drill. Lots of blood.
One of the crew gets impaled in the neck by an axe - not much in the form of blood seen.
Crew members die painful deaths when a bacteria takes over their system and their veins turn black until they turn into blackish zombie like creatures.
One of the crew members bashes the others head in with a rock - seen from a distance no blood or gore
One of the crew members crushes the others nose and skull with his helmet while still on his head. Lots of blood and the mutilated face of the dead crewmen is seen. Blood seen floating in space during this sequence.
profanity
Frequent foul language - "prick" and many uses of "fuck".
alcohol
The crew is seen injecting antibiotics with a hypodermic needle on several occasions in an attempt to stop or postpone the bacterial infection. No uses of alcohol, cigarettes or recreational drugs.
