Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

dallasryan A very weird, bizarre, strange, neat kind of film. The acting is doable for what the film is. The flying ball is awesome and it's actually one of the better weird scary films out there even to this day.A film which takes us on a journey to dark voids and altering like universes which are kind cool. Gory and spooky all at the same time. Has a little bit of everything for all kinds of film genre fansI recommend this film, it' s a different and fun experience!

Dalbert Pringle If I were to actually sum up 1979's "Phantasm" in just 3 itsy-bitsy words - Those words of my choice would be - "Absolute. Putrid. Rubbish."Yeah. OK - I can understand (40 years ago) an impressionable 16-year-old kid watching this horrific nonsense and (as a result) being satisfactorily "awed" by it.But seeing this contemptuously erratic excrement today (as a mature-minded adult) - It was, without question, a total insult (on all counts) to the sound reasoning of any thinking person.Containing no logical coherency, whatsoever - This completely stale fright flick - IMO - Was the absolute nadir of trashy/cheesy 1970's horror.

fairlesssam A small town sees the arrival of the Tall Man, a mortician, who carries with him an air of mysterious evil. There are an increase of deaths in the town and it seems the Tall Man has something to do with it. Mike, a 13 year old boy follows his older brother Jody and his girlfriend into the cemetery at night and is frightened out of his wits by some kind of robed monster. This sparks off a journey into terror of which Mike could never have imagined.Phantasm is undeniably a cult classic. It is a strange film in the way that it has some fantastic, iconic moments yet is very shallow in script and direction/development of the story line. This is somehow echoed in the visuals when showing us the stark wasteland that is the alternate universe where the Tall Man is from. Dwarfs are enslaved, snaking across a desolate wasteland, which mirrors the emptiness of the script. This somehow feels fitting.For me I enjoyed the visuals of the Tall Man striding through the town, knowing he was being watched and stopping to stare back. As kids we all had a creepy person we were scared of but liked to watch from a distance and then run away if the person got wind of you. The Tall Man is the epitome of this. The silver orbs are fantastic, absolute class, I love everything about them. Got to be my favorite weapon of all time.This movie has an air of Stephen King about it which I say as a compliment. It's one of those films you watch and are not particularly impressed with at the time but it stays with you and plays out in your mind.Every horror freak must watch this franchise, be part of it and enjoy the honor of knowing the Tall Man.

simest PHANTASM is an uneven work, too fantastic to be genuinely scary but ferociously unique and fascinating on numerous levels. I think there was a desire 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. Into this bizarre, Dali-like twisted and surreal cosmos, are thrust a group of characters who - perhaps even by virtue of their acting inadequacies - seem somehow as much a part of the fabric of that Universe - even in their struggles to survive and make sense of it. For me, PHANTASM has a hypnotic effect for all those reasons. Flying sphere drills, a gender bending alien cemetery keeper, hooded shrunken corpses refined for slave labour in some parallel Universe, a severed finger that morphs into a grotesque (if admittedly comical) fly and countless other wild fantasies are all episodic nightmares that work their way into my head and stay there - however well or not they may be executed. They are indeed, the essence of all the darkest, unfathomable episodes that invade our deepest sleep. Also, the film's tendency to bounce us in and out of reality - if indeed there is a reality present at all - without warning, keeps us permanently on unstable ground. Dreams are very prominent and indeed prevalent in PHANTASM. So much so, that by the end there seems no dividing line between that which was real and which was not. In this sense, the film explored the territory that NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET would later make it's own but somehow achieves a dream-like quality that even Craven's classic would not surpass. Only Dario Argento's similarly bizarre INFERNO comes to mind as a rival to PHANTASM for the closest we might get to a dream realised on film.PHANTASM is a unique, mind bending vision of quaint, small town America, infused with hellish fantasies of death, loss and isolation, unleashed from the subconscious mind - perhaps even in the end, from that of it's young, insecure and lonely adolescent protagonist. Poe said "Is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?" PHANTASM presents a case. I urge those who are not impressed, to watch it again with these notions in mind.