Phantasm 1-5
I've pretty much reviewed these films several times already and its pretty much certain most people here have seen them countless times. Phantasm plays pretty much like you've climbed into someones nightmare and watching things unfold. It seems somewhat illogical if your looking for traditional horror structure but it remains consistent to its own internal logic. Phantasm 2 goes more commercial with nods to Evil dead as the characters hunt the Tall man. There's still some of the dream logic of the original but it's dialled right back. Ultimately its still a lot of fun. Phantasm 3 is more of the same but with a lower budget. Phantasm 4 has no money whatsoever and reuses a lot of the unused footage from the first film. Coscarelli gets a lot of mileage from it however and it plays with ideas of time and space as it looks at how the Tall man became a monster. Phantasm Ravager More ambition than the budget can handle it suffers from some bad effects work. Here we have to decide if Reggie Bannister is fighting a never ending war against the tall man, or slowly deteriorating from dementia. Or are both things happening at the same time?
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