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it was good because...
I loved it, even tho it seemed to me that the director, after some good ideas in Phantasm, spent the rest of his career trying to exploit those same ideas. It's a common mistake horror film makers make: if one flying blood-sucking steel sphere scary, then three must be three times as scary. I mean Silver Sphere. I thought it was witty when the critic, when the movie came out, said that it had the best flying blood sucking sphere so far that year.
I think I read this review in Castle of Frankenstein. The guy wrote that Phantasm has enough satisfying surprises for three horror movies, but not enough logic for one. Here's what's the pay-off for me: When the door bursts open and there's the Tall Man, big as life and twice as ugly. He growls out "Boy-y-y-y!" and starts to chase Michael, and Michael starts to run, and that eerie music starts up again, and there we are, right back in the middle of a classic nightmare: being chased by the Bad Man. The first half hour of the movie was slow. but the rest of the movie makes u for it. And, of course, if you think the movie is over and leave a couple of minutes too soon, you miss the surprise ending. What ever happened to Angus Scrimm? |
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He sadly passed away back in 2016. My ranking for the series is still the same: 2 1 4 3 5 The series deserved a much better finale than 5. What a disappointment. |
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All but II are showing on Shudder. Giving them a re-watch.....its been many years/
Just finished 1. Doesn't particularly age very well. Kudos for originality but some of the acting was sub par and overall the story was a tad weak. I'm not a big fan of remakes but I would welcome one for this. |
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Jeremy Irons
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The door opened...you got in..:rolleyes: |
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Irons would make a good Tallman
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Ok...finished 2— story was a bit more cohesive and perhaps a bigger budget so as to add some of those practical puppet effects so commonly found in movies of the genre in the late 80s. A new Michael added to the cast a la James Le Gros. He was fine but still not overjoyed by the movie as a whole.
On the part III SOON |
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I remember #3 being more memorable to me.
4 was kind of a let down...but interesting in it's own way. Have never seen the last one they did a few years back...largely because of the horrendous reviews, that and I'd like to see if I can get the entire collection on BluRay to kind of soften the value-hit if it's not up to scratch. For as much as #4 and #5 have got crap - at least I know they haven't sunk to the depths of most of the Hellraiser subtitle-sequels. Quote:
and Greg Kinnear would make a good Riddler.
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I was disappointed by III and IV. They did add some interesting backstory to the overall plot.
I should watch these again but I've still got shitloads of stuff I haven't watched before to get thru. |
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Phantasm II
Phantasm Phantasm IV: Oblivion Phantasm III: Lord Of The Dead Phantasm V: Ravager What a disappointment Ravager was. 18 years of waiting for that. |
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