Phantasm: Presented By See It On 16mm
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Director: Don Coscarelli Run Time: 89 min. Release Year: 1979
Starring: A. Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm, Bill Thornbury, Kathy Lester, Reggie Bannister
You don’t have to go to another world to find terror. It’s already here. Our friends at See It On 16mm are unspooling Don Coscarelli’s cult classic Phantasm—a sci-fi-infused nightmare that defies logic and lingers long after the credits roll.
Released in 1979 and unlike anything else in the horror landscape, Phantasm follows two brothers grappling with death, loss, and something far stranger—an otherworldly mortician known only as the Tall Man (the iconic Angus Scrimm), who haunts their local cemetery with an army of hooded dwarves, chrome sentinel spheres, and inter-dimensional secrets that feel like a dream you can’t wake up from.
Phantasm is a low-budget cosmic horror fever dream filled with and a pervasive sense of dread that hits on an emotional frequency few horror films even attempt.
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