Phantasm

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Productions, Inc./Rated</div> <bR> <div> Director.........Don Coscarelli</div> <div> Screenplay.......Don Coscarelli</div> <div> Music............Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave</div> <div> Producer.........D.A. Coscarelli</div> <div> Special Effects Created by Paul Pepperman & Willard Green</div> <bR> <div> Dramatis Personae</div> <div> Mike.............Michael Baldwin</div> <div> Jody.............Bill Thornbury</div> <div> The Tall Man.....Angus Scrum</div> <div> Reggie...........Reggie Bannister</div> <div> Lady in Lavender.Kathy Lester</div> <div> Granddaughter....Terrie Kalbus</div> <div> Caretaker........Ken Jones</div> <div> Girlfriend.......Susan Harper</div> <div> Sally............Lynn Eastman</div> <div> Toby.............David Arntzen</div> <div> Tommy............Bill Cone</div> <bR> <div> Critique: This is a fine mood piece. The lighting, the figures, the funeral director, and particularly the graveyard setting and funeral home are beautiful horror movie tropes and make "Phantasm" one of the moodier and artistically more effective modern horror films. The funeral director (a YIKES! best supporting actor award for Angus Scrimm), is as memorable as they come. His physique, his gait and voice are too creepy and the two scenes, one where he lifts a huge coffin by himself and one in which he becomes animated in an antique photograph are chilling. The idea of the gate at Morningside Funeral home as a sort of transportational resonator for aliens is a bit weak and certainly not well prepared, nor necessary for the overall cohesion of the piece, although this is one of the elements, among other superficially superfluous elements arouse the suspicion that these are not dreams at all in that the inconsistencies have concrete explanations. Finally a dream problematic that isn't a cop out but a real nightmare for the viewer. Since the plot consists of a series of visits and escapes from morningside, the effect of a recurring and consistently scary nightmare is created. Nice music.</div> <div> Memorable line: "Boy!"</div> <div> *Best actor in a supporting role</div> <bR> <div> * Blood * Violent * Nudity * Sexual Situations * Strong Language *</div> <div> * Extremely Gory *</div> <bR> <div> Plot Summary: At a graveyard two hippies have sex. As they finish she stabs him. At Morningside Cemetary, the boys, Jody and Reggie, can't get over Tommy's aparent suicide. The mechanically inclined Michael rides through the graveyard on his fdirtbike but stalls and notices asmallish figure lurking behind the tombstones.While Jody walks around the funeral home healso notices the small figures and is interrupted by the really scary funeral director. Michael watches the funeral through binoculars and witnesses the funeral director singlehandedly load the coffin into the hearse. Michael visits a pair of witches and informs Grandmother with that Jody is leaving and he is afraid of being alone, as his parents are dead. Jody has a cool 1971 HemiCuda. Grandmother teaches Michael that fear, reflection are his worst enemies, however, the witches laugh when he leaves. The teenage wictch goes directly to  Morningside and screams. Michael fiollows Jody everywhere. Tonight he dpicks up the killer hippie girl and they go to the cemetary to make out. As he spies, he is attacked by a little skulking figure and interrupts the sex with his screaming. Michael is haunted by dreams of the scary funeral director and corpses attacking him. The next day they try to maim him by tipping a car off its jacks.</div> <div> He heads to morningside that night to investigate and breaks in via a cellar window evades the gone goon by hiding in a coffin. As he invesitigates the funeral home he ois buzzed by a matallic ball which patrols the premises, grabbed by the handyman whom he bites jhard to escape, and ducks in time to send the ball with three knife-like appendages sailing nto the forhead of his attacker. The ball proceeds to drill his brains out and michael escapes the director by chopping his fingers off out of which shoots yellow slime. He brings his brother a chopped off moving finger in a box of slime. When they decide to bring it to the police, a giant toothy killer fly pops out. Regrettably, they run it through the garbage disposal. Jody heads for Morningside and leaves Michael with a shotgun and a warning not to follow. Jody is attacked by a skulker but gets it with his trusty Colt Army-Issue and runs with the hearse right behind him. The Cjhallenger pulls up and Michael whisks him away as they disable the dwarf-driven hearse. Upon investigation, the dwarf proves to be their dead friend Tommy, "only three feet long". Jody sets off once again for Morningside. Michael and his babysitters Sally and Suzy,aere set upon by the little thing and as they peal out, he falls from the car. Reggie the ice cream man's truck is wiped out too. Michael is locked in his room but he busts out and is met by the direcytor who heads for the cemetary.Michael shoots out the tire and jumps through the window to watch the hearse bursyt into flames. Michael opens his father's coffin to find it empty. Jody shoots the ball. Reggier shows up alive and the three find a room full of plastic kegs full of "dwarves". M finds a gate to a parellel something and renmembrers the admonition "Don't fear!" NHe is swept awaty momenytarily but dragged back after seeing that the dead are being used as slaves, crushed by gravity.The barrels are stored slaves. With the discovery comes a battle at the mineshaft at the end of siunger's creek which goes a thousand feet straight down. The plan "Run that tall bastard straight to hell!"</div> </td> </tr></table></body>