ALIENS Pt 10: Phantasm (1979)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 115 minutes

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This week Mike is joined by Steph McKenna to discuss one of the weirdest horror franchises of all…PHANTASM! They discuss the original 1979 cult classic in spoilerific detail, before briefly touching on each of the sequels.

Music by Jack Whitney.

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0:00.0	Phantasm
0:22.0	Phantasm
0:23.0	The delusion of a disordered mind
0:26.0	A phantom
0:27.0	A spirit
0:30.0	In 1979, a filmmaker called Don Coscarelli
0:38.0	released his indie feature film Phantasm
0:42.0	The movie, about a 13-year-old boy
0:44.0	being pursued by a nightmare-ish figure
0:46.0	from another dimension called
0:48.0	The Tall Man
0:49.0	got a very small release
0:51.0	but slowly grew in popularity
0:54.0	due to word of mouth
0:56.0	Over the next few years Phantasm slowly
0:59.0	and gradually became a cult success
1:02.0	And eventually, nearly a decade later
1:04.0	Coscarelli reunited with the cast
1:07.0	and crew of the original
1:08.0	to make the sequel Phantasm 2
1:11.0	In the following three decades from that
1:21.0	Coscarelli and his cast and crew
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