A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
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A. Michael Baldwin
Mike
Bill Thornbury
Jody
Reggie Bannister
Reggie
Kathy Lester
Lady in Lavender
Angus Scrimm
The Tall Man
Terrie Kalbus
Fortuneteller's Granddaughter
Kenneth V. Jones
Caretaker
Susan Harper
Girlfriend
Lynn Eastman-Rossi
Sally
David Arntzen
Toby
Director
Don Coscarelli
Tagline
"If this one doesn't scare you...you're already dead!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$300,000
Revenue
$11,988,469
Production
New Breed Productions, AVCO Embassy Pictures
Cat Ellington
February 15, 2017
There are tall men, and then there's the "Tall Man". I actually saw the trailer, or preview, if you like, for Phantasm while awaiting the start of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in December of 1978. And I remember the trailer quite well, considering that the upcoming film looked scary as the word itself. The part in the trailer that really got to me was the scene in which the main antagonist, the ...
simest
February 17, 2017
PHANTASM is an uneven work, too fantastic to be genuinely scary but ferociously unique and fascinating on numerous levels. I think at the forefront there was a desire here to create a warped and entirely original Universe where nothing is as it seems and anything can - and probably will - happen. Logic is quickly cast aside and indeed has no place in the crooked landscape that PHANTASM paints. ...
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