Phantasm and it's sequels

[Splatterdragon73]

This track was an easter egg on the DVD wasn't it?

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Its been ages since I looked at the MGM disc but I don't think It was an eater egg.I do remember that you could changed the music on the menu screen via an easter egg.

[Splatterdragon73]

Originally Posted by stevoj

Its been ages since I looked at the MGM disc

Same here but it's a long deleted DVD so it's well worth keeping despite owning several other editions!

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Found a great podcast with A. Michael Baldwin.His thoughts on P2 and jokingly ripping into the rest of the cast.

http://www.phantasmarchives.net/podcast.html

[TALL DUDE]

The original phantasm is without doubt my all time favourite film in any genre..hands down.
I've seen nothing like it before or since(apart from the sequels)and i must have watched it at least 50 odd times.

Now heres the sad bit...Before i was buying videos and you only had the possibility of renting movies,i rented this at least a dozen times in the space of a month.(well,it was only 50p,and my other options were candid camera classics.)The soundtrack blew me away,and i ended up doing an audio "copy" on a tdk d90 tape of the whole film. Should have realised then that horror flicks had a hold of me.

After me raving on about phantasm to my mate,he rented it and upon viewing it,said it was a pile of old wank.(god knows what he'd make of no.4)

Great movies(even no.4) and i own the anchor bay sphere,plus a figure of the tall man and one of his evil minions,sitting pride of place on me tv unit.


Yeah,i kinda like the phantasm franchise.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Spot on.A melting pot of different aspects of genres.Unbeatable.
I liked the way they adopted the 'ALIENS' attitude for the sequel as well-kick arse.
I'm currently on number 3 (Again) and it's as cool as feck as well.

[TALL DUDE]

Four does get some short shift,and if you aint seen any of the previous films before watching this its really confusing,although i liked the way coscarelli added unseen footage from the original flick into oblivion. And who would have thought the tall man was a thoroughly nice bloke indeed.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Got a hold of a brand new Sphere box.To be honest I shoulda grabbed one ages ago.Very cool the way it's made,and looks cracking on a shelf once the little prongs are clipped on.

[TwilightZoneTom@Cult Labs]

I'm probably in the minority, but my favourite of the sequels is part 4; I think Coscarelli really nails the tone of the series in that one.

Now part 5, do I want it? I think 4 ended nicely, but I definately got a bit of excitement when I saw this teaser: (add your own www, I can't post links yet)

.youtube.com/watch?v=5ChuhMGK5QY

[darthelvis]

Love the Phantasm series and own the Sphere boxset. I would love to see a 5th entry in the series!

Nice t-shirt on the official website http://www.phantasm.com/