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It's a classic 70's horror movie and RIP Angus scrimm he always be the tall man.

Phantasm is all about an awesome car, a kickass theme, the tall man and flying chrome murder spheres. plot would just get in the way.

Angus Scrimm You were more than just an iconic horror villain and you will be missed. R.I.P Tall Man

Balding with a ponytail , truly a look that never goes out of style.

"It was little and brown and low to the ground." "Gary Coleman?" "Maybe it was a gopher in heat." "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?" Had to stop the video there, I completely lost it! Brilliant - absolutely first-class!

Phantasm is truly unique and one of a kind, it's sad that it didn't get the recognition it deserved.

I was only around 6 or 7 when Phantasm was released, and I remember the commercials for it on TV. It scared the hell out of me as a kid. 7:24 That shot was a big promo scene in the commercials, and without any context, I had horrible nightmares about it. LOL 😆

"Hey, Reggie, we killed James Hetfield. Yeah, it is sad but true." Pretty sure I found that a lot funnier than I should have.

I'll always remember one quote from this movie: never point a gun at a man unless you intend to shoot and never shoot unless you intend to kill that man. Or something along those lines.

Man I remember bumping into this and its sequels on TV all the time. The endings were always so...bizarre.

Despite "Phantasm II" actually being my personal favorite in the series, the first Phantasm is an absolute classic! A very original concept. Creepy atmosphere and sick score. Tall man becoming one of the best horror icons up there with Michael, Freddy, and Jason; and Reggie Bannister would later throughout the series go on to be one of my top 5 horror movie "final guys" up with Ash Williams (Evil dead), Tommy Jarvis (Friday the 13th part 4-6), Jesse Walsh (A nightmare on Elm street 2: Freddy's revenge), and Andy Barcley (Child's play series). Whoever said that guys can't be good screamers too? The Phantasm series has had a good five movie run. If they were to make one more entry like a Phantasm 6 or a reboot/remake, sure I'd be down for one.

Phantasm is one of my favorite horror films of all time. Coscarelli did a great job & I love how the cast pretty much keeps coming back for every sequel. Angus Scrimm is great in this role. Another great Coscarelli is "John Dies at the End". Also the opening "suicide" scene, maybe it just me but if the lady I'm doing turns into Angus. They're would be no need to stab me I would definitely die.

I love the music in this movie.

I always loved the tag line-If this one does, nt scare you, you, re already dead.

Not Jason, not Freddy or Michael. The tall man scared the living crap out of me as a kid. Oh and made me want a Pylymonth Barricuda for the rest of my life.

Sentences you never thought you’d utter: “There’s a gaggle of bloodthirsty Jawas on his trail.”😂😂😂❤

The tall man is probably the most underrated villian of his era I know so many horror fans that even back then never watched these movies

One of my favorite franchises. They even brought near 100 yrs old Angas as Tall Man for the last one. So cool.

A gold star for anyone who can coherently sum up the plot of the Phantasm series. I tried once and the person went: "Well, that's eh....werid", So who are the movies heroes?" Peter: "A kid with big brother issues and an bald middle-aged ice-cream vendor" ...did I mention they have a four barrelled shotgun? X: Several times Peter, several times.

Saw this as a kid, stays with me to this day for some reason. I watched this review to get some "closure". Still one of the mentally creepy movies I've seen. I always loved the ending chase music😍thank you for the great and terrifying memory lol💗💗love the channel!

I love this series and how every movie tied in with flashbacks in future films like it was planned that way.the kid is grown up in the 3rd movie and have a flashback to when he was a kid. R.I.P Angus Scrimm

Fun fact: Don Coscarelli also directed the music video for Dio's The Last in Line.

Glad I stumbled upon this channel. Love the humor and I see you've reviewed some horror flicks I haven't seen as well as some underrated flicks like this one. Binge watch is imminent😎

Ahh, good ol' Phantasm. The first movie that comes to mind when I think of badass low budget horror. Raise a glass to the late Angus Scrimm... what a beast. The sequels may have diminishing returns, but they do have a quadruple-barreled shotgun... so... definitely not all bad. Ever wonder if Timothy Balme got his inspiration for flinging the mutant rat monkey around from the fly scene in Phantasm? Oh, and "But has to hide when Torgo shows up!" LOL. I love a good Manos reference. Actually, you had a ton of lines that were just cracking me up this time around. I wouldn't have thought this movie was a particularly great one for cracking jokes, but you've proven me wrong. And yes, I watched Knight Rider, but I'm old. I don't count.

This is the movie i saw as a small child that made me absolutely obsessed with horror

Those flying death balls predict drones perfectly

ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC!! Amazing score, setting and atmosphere! Not to mention Angus Scrimm ruled!! “Best 35 seconds of my life” 😆😂 “That’s what a call a dead lift” HAHA! We’ll crafted, sir.

One of my favorites!! We used to rent it all the time and I still say “come here boy” in my best dimensional mortician voice!!

This is one of those horror movies I like to come back to every October.

i remember saying "we thought it was real, but it was just a dream. then we thought it was just a dream, but it was real."

"coitus interuptus" - That made me laugh out loud. You should copyright this stuff!

"What does this mean? Hell if I know" is the conclusion of the movie. Hahaha Also, of course I remember Knight Rider. K.I.T.T. is the pinnacle of the digital assistant

That “Deadlift” pun was top notch. It had me Coffin my lungs up.

I remember the car, the tall man, and the ball. Pretty much everything that matters

Phantasm is one of my favorite horror movies of the 70s!!!❤❤❤❤. The monster fly scene cracks me up every time 😂😂😂😂😂

This is one of the best horror movies of all time! I met Reggie, super coo dude

I remember knight Rider. I was a kid when it was out. Waiting eagerly for the gory review of the sequel to this movie.... You know, the one that the producers of Supernatural blatantly ripped off, and ran with successfully for the first 5 seasons. Too bad there were 10 or 11 more seasons after that.

One of my absolute favorite films. Ever. Any genre.

You know the later movies is about two dudes traveling in a badass car with weapons killing evil. Could this movie of influnced supernatural?

Grindhouse Fellini, absolutely brilliant

This is a great movie, I remember my older brother showing me this back in the 90's and was hooked right away. I like 2 and 3 as well.

Good review Mike. Coscarelli's book True Indie is a very interesting read. Lots of cool stories about Phantasm and my favorite of his Beastmaster. (I was 12 when I first saw it. Still love it)

At the opening of the very first toys r us in Montreal, the special guest star was the Hoff himself, dressed in full Knight Rider regalia. We stood in line for hours waiting to see him but it was all worth it. We also bought some toys from the Mask cartoon. The one with the vehicles. Does anyone remember that cartoon? It was awesome and the toys were even better! Christ I'm old. Lol P.S. Phantasm is in my 10 top ten all time horror movies. I still have my original VHS copy, with the amazing artwork. I love almost everything about it. Even the jam session and the catch the finger fly scene. It's ridiculous but Reggie saves it with his terribly delivered line, "what the hell is going on around here". I love Reggie and the Horror Geek! Cheers.

This movie scared the freaking crap out of me when I was 9 however it has and will always be one of my favorite movies.

Saw this as a kid at a drive in with a new friend and his family who I hardly knew. The dad burst into hysterical laughter at the brain draining ball scene. The whole scenario a little unsettling. But hey, I am still alive.

This is one of the coolest scary movies I had the chance to watch in a midnight showing back in the day. Reggie's over acting, that ridiculous fly that fooled nobody and the jawas were the best part and the bed dream sequence gave me nightmares for a very long time.

Had a ball watching this review 🤣

I’ve watched this movie both sober and not so sober and I still have no idea what I watched but it was strangely still amazing each time.

The Phantasm Franchise is absolute underrated but I love the Films ,I have the great collection from Arrow

I may be in the minority cracking up at the Lenny & Squiggy/Laverne & Shirley reference ('cause I'm old), but yeah, I take laughter where I can get it. You do a good thing here, really appreciate it.

Absolute classic.

Ah, this is one the films from 1979, known as Hollywood's scary summer. We got Prophecy, Alien, Dawn of the Dead, Nightwing, and of course, Phantasm. I'm happy to say I saw every one these in the theater. It's interesting to note these are all very different films, yet most are now considered classics. This is one of them. Its creepy, dreamlike atmosphere has never been duplicated. I'm a fan of the whole series, and I might like the second one best. I also saw that in the theater, but the rest on video or streaming because I don't think they were released theatrically. And you're right about the music; I bought the soundtrack for it too. Props to the late Angus Scrimm, who's one pf the creepiest horror icons of all time. You've got balls to review this one... BOY! I got to meet Reggie Bannister at the end of a Horrorfind convention in Maryland and he was pretty chill.

this one is a real classic

Remember watching this as a kid with my older brother...great memories...knight rider is one of the greatest 80s shows of all time...next to Friday the 13th the series...lol

I was watching Phantasm on HBO late one night when my two sisters walked in and busted out laughing. They just got back from watching it at the drive in theater.

Don Coscarelli has a lot in common with Lucio Fulci. Namely, both of them can sell a movie on atmosphere alone.

The Gary Coleman and buzz cut lines got me! Fantastic commentary.

Definitely an atmospheric flick. Bought the Varèse Sarabande album soundtracks to this and Dawn of the Dead in the early 80s.

Phantasm is one of my all time faves, Scrimm KILLED it...heehee

this has got to be my favorite review so far. seen the movie (yet again) on VHS back in 80-something. the Knight Rider ref was hell-larious !

The deep thoughts are the best parts of these videos. "Do deaf people think I'm yelling when I yawn?" "When I'm waiting for the waiter, doesn't that make ME the waiter?" Fuccing GOLD!

...Due to this, I just found it there was a fifth Phantasm film! Great! More Reggie and his four barrelled shot-gun.

The Morningside Funeral House was also used in Burnt Offerings. The guitar jam with Reggie was written by Bill Thornbury aka Jody.😊

Reggie looks like a young but equally as bald Dean Norris.

Always one of my favourite horror films... :-) It absolutely scared the crap out of a friend of mine who had been raised a Catholic, when we went to see it when it first came out, and claimed it was as evil as The Exorcist! Loved the sequels too, even though they never had quite same unhinged nature of the first!

I recently stumbled upon your channel here and gotta say im digging all of this you got here, sir! So, ive been going back through all your reviews, bit by bit. I happened to just sit through a Phantasm marathon this weekend to try to get my kids on board with it ( always been partial to this series ever since i was kid myself). The original here kinda blew right past them but they were totally sucked in for the 1st sequel. Ill be honest: i saw the first film here probably 25 years ago initially and I STILL cant tell you what the hell is going on exactly! Whatever it is, I love it though! Great review sir!

"when we yawn, do deaf people think we're screaming?" rofl

Incredible horror classic thanks for the excellent review!!

Little and brown and low to the ground is my new response to hows it hanging

I ADORE the Phantasm series! You're right about the gore. If you're wanting to puke, this isn't the place to be. But for pure weirdness and story, the series as a whole is pretty awesome! What I liked about it was the fact that every sequel seemed to add a little more to the story. You still got plenty of jawas, shotgun blasts, Cuda racing, zombie deaths, and Death Sphere action. But every one gave you a little bit more of a larger story. I've never really been able to piece together how much Coscarelli had planned from the beginning. Or if with every sequel, he had thought up more of a larger plot. But one definitely leads into another. And they always leave you with a big cliffhanger to keep you hoping for the next one. One is good. It's very phantasmagorical. A trippy movie kind of for the sake of being trippy. But cool. Two is my favorite. It's full of butt-kicking action and it definitely is one of the quintessential 80's movies. Psychic teens meeting across time and space joining together to fight an evil madman from another dimension who is hellbent on turning out planet into a wasteland and it's inhabitants into jawa zombies to serve as cannon fodder on his own plane. 3 was pretty cool. It focused more on zombies and had way more action than the others. The plot twists were pretty wild, too! You don't expect that kind of stuff in a horror franchise. Four was a good set-up movie, although it broke my heart it took SOOOOOO long to get to five, considering the huge cliffhanger we're left on. We also got to see how One was originally supposed to play out with all of the deleted scenes they incorporated into the movie. Five was not bad for coming so far along after the other movies. It maybe asked more questions than it answered, but it had some great moments. I wasn't a fan of the ambiguous ending, but considering Angus is dead and it would be kind of weird to try to fill his shoes with someone else, I get it. I think it might have gotten a little off track because of all the time passing and the interest in the Mandela Effect at the time. Honestly, I preferred the idea of other dimensions but them being completely different rather than the parallel almost identical dimension theory. But, it was good, especially for the fact it had very little budget. And I wouldn't mind seeing Coscarelli get another one out there sans the Tall Man. It's one of those things where you crave an ending and yet don't really want to see it end.

One of the best movies of all time

Saw this under the title "The Never Dead" on VHS in the early 90's, having seen Phantasm II on HBO the year before but not realizing the connection until part way through. It's a whacky late 70's indie with horror/sci-fi touches more than a straight ahead horror flick, but is one the few films to genuinely evoke the shifting chaos-logic of a dream.

I saw this movie for the first time as a child of 8 when it came out, it has been my favorite horror movie ever since.

Scrimms great powerlifting skills really are unparallelled!😂😂😂😂 Had to look at this after 2 years...such a great episode!

Many thanks, for all the LOLs !!! I needed it today -- The timing of your on-point comments could not have been better! Outstanding film 🎥 Outstanding review

I had only seen the ball scene before this. It was on some compilation of classic horror death scenes. I only remember it had a red case and it was the early days of DVD.

I enjoy the Phantasm series. They are a cheesey series that you can watch with the kids every Halloween.

Why don't these videos show up in my notifications but things I'm not even subscribed to are in my feed every day

You said the P word and I came running (love this franchise)!

PHANTASM is one of my very favorite horror flicks. Thanks for this episode; one of the most laugh-out-loud videos you’ve done so far!

Definitely one of my favorites of all time. Awesome video.

As kids most of us who saw this movie it's still with us for scary it was and nightmares we had.

I remember “Knight Rider”, I loved KITT! I also love “Phantasm”. And I enjoyed your hilarious review!

Always wondered why a lot of the older horror fans I knew loved this film. Maybe I'll watch it now.

This is one of my all time favorites. It’s impressive what they were able to make with the resources they had. Strangely, I’ve never seen any of the others. Great video👍🏻

Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Airwolf, Blue Thunder, Manimal, Automan, A-Team, Magnum PI, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Tales of the Golden Monkey - hell yeah, remember them all! 😎👍

This franchise is a bizarre one for me. We had the 2nd one for the longest time and we eventually got this one. This one really freaked me out as it started the whole dream within a dream long before Inception was an idea. We eventually rented up to 5 before my dad passed and I watched the rest of them simply because I wanted to see where it would go. Most of them are way better than what comes out in theatres today. They don't make em like this anymore.

Man your channel is awesome! I've been watching every night after work and looking forward to it. So many classic films from the past. Keep doing what you do and we'll be watching and supporting. Thanks dude!

Your hilarious. I'm 41 years old of course I remember knight rider. Aka The hoss. New sub and really like your humor. Thanks fir the review and keep it coming.

I love ya!! This brings me back. Back when they had drive inns . Thanks man.

One of my favorite flicks!!!!! It's like stepping into a Clive Barker microcosm and dealing with a scenario from a Creepy or an Eerie comic book while feeling powerless against things beyond your control like you are caught inside someone else's nightmare. To hell with the sequels, I want to see the full three hour version with everything that was cut from the original film! I think the movie plays out like a fever dream and it's a wonderful flick for a night with the guys... ...Or perhaps a safe third date with an open-minded, fun-loving female. (Won't wreck your chances and won't make her think you are secretly psychotic. Will just assure her that you hate insects in the kitchen as much as everyone else.) Great review! ☆☆☆☆☆ I believe that A Nightmare On Elm Street was borne from watching this film. Homage, I suppose, but I could write a term paper of how Phantasm was as influential to horror in cinema as Forbidden Planet was to science fiction in film. I agree. Hellraiser is equally-wonderful to watch, but much, much more gory. (Only use as a third date flick if she's goth and into S&M.) Best to you-

Phantasm will always be one of my favorite horror franchises. I discovered the first movie by accident when I was 11 when I bought the VHS at a store for a cheap price. My 11 year old mind was blown by it and I fell in love with it. Shortly after that I rented the sequels up to that point (2 and 3). Its a damn entertaining series of movies. I always viewed Reggie as a kind of Ash from Evil Dead like character, the unlikely hero. Years later my wife and I got into the Supernatural tv series and I swore that Eric Kripke took a lot of inspiration for Supernatural from the Phantasm series. Its a road movie where they're traveling in a bad classic car fighting monsters. Anyway, great review as always.

Start to finish this is your best video (havent seem them all but have been binging). You are unrelenting with the perfectly timed wise cracks. Great job. As i am telling people about your channel i had been recommending the Cruel Jaws video but am going to make this one the new intro. FYI. I have two you tube accounts and post many of my comments under another user name and i really appreciate the fact that you always take the time to respond. Definitely builds loyalty to your channel. Take care.

Your channel has the best commentary ever. Love your sense of humor. Thanks!

Wow, back when I was in high school my sister came back one weekend from Rutgers to have me watch this movie since she knew I loved horror.

2:34 I can never hear that line and not think of the band mortician

I love this movie!! thanks Geek.

Yes. Phantasm, a horror classic. The silver steel flying balls are nothing but iconic kill machines.

I love Knight Rider