Phantasm is readily available here in Blighty,not sure why you are having trouble obtaining it.
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I live in The States bruv. It's not available on this side of the pond. ::big grin::
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I thought this was a funny short review of Phantasm 2, by Roger Ebert, from 1988. (in quotes below)
Despite my hobby-study of symbolism, the subconscious and horror, I've never seemed to enjoy much "dream surreal horror" -- the 'not making sense', without much of anything else of interest, burns me up, basically. There's certainly some I have liked, including the original Phantasm, but films like "The Beyond" just leave me shaking my head. I haven't seen Phantasm 2, but from most reviews I've read, I doubt it will ever hit the top of my "to see" list. Quote:
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I have all of them. They're in a Sphere.
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After seeing Ravager, my revised ranking:
2 1 4 3 5 I didn't hate 5 but it's definitely the weakest, IMO. |
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I love all of the Phantasm films. And I really enjoyed part 5! For me it's great to see all of the characters again.
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on the subject of Phantasm
On the subject of this movie, a discussion of this movie in some magazine said that is has enough satisfying surprises for 3 horror movies and not enough logic for one.
I was posting to some forum a few years ago, and some idiot said he could not see the appeal of this movie. Well, the first half hour is pretty slow. But the payoff in this movie is when the door flies open and there's the Tall Man, big as life and twice as ugly. He growls out "Boy-y-y-y!" And Michael starts to run, and the Tall Man chases him, and that eerie music starts up again, and we are right back in the middle of a classic nightmare: being chased by the Bad Man. If you leave the theater 5 minutes too early, you miss the twist ending. I didn't think the sequel so much. The director seems to think that if one blood-sucking sphere is scary, then 3 are scarier. Not true. They made the same mistake in the sequels to Aliens. |
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