Phantasm [DVD] [1979]

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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  "You think when you die, you go to Heaven..."

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  "...you come to US!" The Tall Man, played by the late, great Angus Scrimm, has all the best lines in Don Coscarelli's 1979 supernatural horror classic that sneakily boasts one of the decade's best soundtracks (by Fred Myrow and Malcolm Seagrave). What's going on at the local mortuary and crematorium? Is it really happening? Is it really a dream? Why are bodies disappearing right and left? Where do the lethal Silver Spheres that wield strange weaponry come from? (One grisly Sphere-effected kill is a famous one!) There really is no other film like PHANTASM (and the first 'Nightmare' famously ripped off its ending). The retro-cool SteelBook design proudly displays a brazen image of a lethal Silver Sphere with weapons deployed. I love the original film poster art, but this is a slick new design for a great presentation of a screen gem that deserved a remaster. Get one before The Tall Man takes the rest home with him! "BOY!!!"

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  This review is from Phantasm [SteelBook] [Blu-ray] [1979]

  Posted 2 years ago by BRAINCRUST

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

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  Awesome Halloween flick! if you are looking for the classic tail of Ghost and the Grave Yard. This is it!

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  This review is from Phantasm [Blu-ray] [1979]

  Posted 8 years ago by RockinTimmy1

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  A true classic

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  Ahhh 1979, the year I gragitated High School. With the exception of maybe Romero's NofTLD, Laser Blast, and The Incredable Melting Man...possibly Scanners there was really nothing like this around. My friends and I used to watch these kinds of movies on some late night cable channel out of SF/Oakland, maybe KTVU...Bob Wilkens Creature Feature I think was the program. I was really surprised to see it in steel box, Blu-ray with lossless audio, so I grabbed it. JJ Abrams oversaw the resto, no wonder he makes movies like Cloverfield. This is a must have "reference" disc for any sci-fi horror fan who likes things like Event Horizon. As far as picture quality, I mean it's lo budget 1970's and this is as good as it's ever going to get...so basically DVD quality that's been cleaned-up. You watch movies like this and say...good luck getting anything like that made today.

  This review is from Phantasm [SteelBook] [Blu-ray] [1979]

  Posted 6 years ago by TheReviewdator