I know that some people may be pissed regarding my comments about Phantasm, but I fear I must speak my mind regarding this movie. Remember, opinions are like assholes........everyone has them, and by all accounts regarding Darwin's theory of evolution, by now at every human should have at least........one.
Phantasm, largely regarded as an iconic horror film classic, is now from my subsequent viewing, regarded as a scar of endless dissapointment that many a horror movie has left on my soul.
Last week I rented this movie via Netflix as it had great reviews and at least 4 and 1/2 stars. Now I'm left wondering how the Hell this happened.
I tried to give it a chance, after-all many other great movies from the 70's had interesting story-lines and ok special effects. Heck, even Gremlins, The Goulies and Star Wars had great special effects for their time. Not to mention at least an unfallible plot.
Phantasm had a plot, but it became lost within the realm of bad acting, guys who looked like girls, and special effects that obviously relied heavily on the invention of French's Mustard. The hero's of this tale routinely made stupid mistakes, lacked common sense and all the monsters mutated into something that didn't follow the story itself. Among these creatures existed a cemetary gopher, a chick who turned into an old dude, spirit orbs with knives, dead people turned into dwarfs, blue barrels of bodies, fingers that turned into a fly looking puppet and two metal bars that led to another dimension.
The description of the film told me it was supposed to be about grave-robbers and souls being taken to Hades. Did I miss something? Calling this film iconic was more or less a cruel joke and I have yet to understand, how it received such excellent reviews. Even the ending didn't make any sense. I understand that Phantasm has many sequels but as far as many sequels go, most of them are way worse on the eyes, then the original film. I'm not sure how this could be possible, but I am quite sure that I'm unwilling to find out.
PHANTASM
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT U GUYS.. BUT PHANTASM WAS A SCARY MOVIE AT THAT TIME!
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i was 18 when this movie hit the drive inn, This is one of my favorite movies from the 70"s. The Tall Man was scary as hell back then! the new generation of horror fans are a bit jaded, so much is took for granted now days. the amount of blood and gore in the movies today is expected, but back then when horror was still a bit raw, things were more shocking so alittle went a long way.
This movie is a classic and i still enjoy watching it, and those little ghouls are still creepy!!
EYE-GORE A PLENTY!!
Re: Phantasm = far from fantastic
FAR FROM FANTASTIC!!! JEEZZ Whats wrong with horror fans today?? :D
I grew up with Phantasm starting with its sequal Phantasm 2 which was the first one i watched and loved it, because it wasnt your run of the mill copy cat horror film. I think you should watch the film again and pay more attention because the mistakes you point out have a purpose to the story like The Tall Man is a grave robber who experiments on the corpses and shrinks them into midget looking creatures. Also the yellowish looking mustard stuff is their blood because in Phantasm 2 you see The Tall Man injecting that yellow liquid into his corpses, and the silver deadly flying orbs kick ass! Oh well to each his own.
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the little demon dwarfs freaked me out in this one,i thought part one was pretty good.
RE: Phantasm = far from fantastic
I thought Phantasm was pretty good!! For the effects that they had w/ a low buget... I thought they did a good job making it. THE TALL MAN KICKS ASS IN MY BOOK!!!!
Alrighty then?
It seems to me that the only person in the community that doesn't like the phantasm quadrilogy is the person who started this conversation. I love it more now than I did 20 years ago.
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