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Watch: Phantasm 1979 123movies, Full Movie Online – Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, afraid to lose his brother follow him to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lifting a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate, and discovers that the Tall Man, protected by his flying spheres, is shrinking dead bodies down to half their normal size and reanimating them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man..
Plot: A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 37,728
	74% | RottenTomatoes
	72/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 530 Popularity: 12.493 | TMDB

Reviews:

There are tall men, and then there’s the “Tall Man”. I actually saw the trailer, or preview, if you like, for Phantasm while awaiting the start of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in December of 1978. And I remember the trailer quite well, considering that the upcoming film looked scary as the word itself. The part in the trailer that really got to me was the scene in which the main antagonist, the Tall Man, played by Angus Scrimm, is standing outside of some kid’s bedroom window (at night) looking in over the kid’s head. It freaked me out … Completely out. And being a horror film buff – even then at such a young age – I’d immediately said to my mother who had been sitting next to me: ‘Ooh, ma, I wanna see that movie!’ Phantasm looked horrifying … And I loved horrifying movies. My mother said ‘Yes’.

It would be the next year, in April of 1979, that we (only my mother and me that time) would finally see Phantasm. And it’s scary as hell, I tell ya. Scary as hell. Oh, and as I’d also learned, the kid, whose window it was that the Tall Man stood outside of in the trailer, is named Mike. Scary as hell, I tell ya.

Be prepared, if you’ll be a first time watcher of this cult horror, to scream and jump and feel chills as you’re absorbing it. It is just that creepy. And I do believe that Clive Barker (God love him) would later borrow more than a few of the elements from Phantasm for his own cult masterpiece, “Hellraiser”. I reckon that I’ll always believe that to be the truth. Phantasm is sheer and ultimate terror. They just don’t make ’em like this anymore.

Watch this one with the lights on, folks.

PHANTASM is an uneven work, too fantastic to be genuinely scary but ferociously unique and fascinating on numerous levels.

I think at the forefront there was a desire here to create a warped and entirely original Universe where nothing is as it seems and anything can – and probably will – happen. Logic is quickly cast aside and indeed has no place in the crooked landscape that PHANTASM paints. Into this bizarre, surreal…….even Dali-like twisted cosmos, are thrust a group of characters who – perhaps even by virtue of their acting inadequacies – seem somehow as much a part of the fabric of that Universe, even in their struggles to survive and make sense of it.

For me, PHANTASM has a hypnotic effect for all those reasons. Flying sphere drills, a gender bending alien cemetery keeper, hooded shrunken corpses refined for slave labour in some parallel Universe, a severed finger that morphs into a grotesque (if admittedly comical) fly and countless other wild fantasies are all episodic nightmares that work their way into my head and stay there – however well or not they may be executed. They are indeed, the essence of all the darkest, unfathomable episodes that invade our deepest sleep.

Also, the film’s tendency to bounce us in and out of reality – if indeed there is a reality present at all – without warning, keeps us permanently on unstable ground. Dreams are very prominent and indeed prevalent in PHANTASM. So much so, that by the end there seems no dividing line between that which was real and which was not. In this sense, the film explored the territory that NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET would later make it’s own but somehow achieves a dream-like quality that even Craven’s classic would not surpass. Only Dario Argento’s similarly bizarre INFERNO comes to mind as a rival to PHANTASM for the closest we might get to a dream realised on film.

PHANTASM is a unique, mind bending vision of quaint, small town America, infused with hellish fantasies of death, loss and isolation, unleashed from the subconscious mind – perhaps even in the end, from that of it’s young, insecure and lonely adolescent protagonist.

Poe said “Is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?”

PHANTASM presents a case.

I urge those who are not impressed, to watch it again with these notions in mind.

A Weird and Original Cult Movie
After the death of Tommy (Bill Cone), who was stabbed by a woman at the cemetery, Jody (Bill Thornbury) and his friend Reggie (Reggie Bannister) attend the funeral at the Morningside funeral home. Jody is followed by his teenage brother Mike (Michael Baldwin), who has just lost his parents and is afraid of losing his big brother that intends to travel.

Mike snoops around the cemetery and sees the mortician known as The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) carrying Tommy’s coffin alone without any help. Mike breaks in the mortuary to investigate the mystery and discovers weird dwarf creatures with yellow blood and dangerous flying spheres that protect the location. When he is chased by The Tall Man, he cuts his finger and brings it home to show Jody to convince his big brother that there is a dark secret in the mortuary. Jody, Reggie and Mike discover that The Tall Man is from outer space and is transforming dead bodies in dwarfs to work as slave in his world. Now they decide that The Tall Man must be destroyed. Will they succeed in their intent?

“Phantasm” is one of the most weird and original cult movies that I have ever seen. The surrealistic and dreamlike story entwines horror with sci-fi with many twists and bizarre characters and situations.

I saw “Phantasm” for the first time on VHS in the early 80’s and I have just seen it again on DVD and surprisingly the film has not aged, only the clothing, the hair style and the special effects. But for fans like me, it is still attractive and entertaining. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): “Fantasma” (“Phantasm”)

The Chrome Sphere is 70s classic
There are two things that stand out in this film. The Tall Man (played by Angus Scrimm) and the chrome sphere with hook-like blades that stick out of it. Those are the two main elements when it comes to this horror series directed by Don Coscarelli. The Tall Man comes from another dimension where he takes some of the earth’s dead back to his home planet, reincarnates them and turns them into slaves for his world. He even occasionally murders some earth people in order to speed things up. Why wait for them to get old and die natural deaths. That would take too much time, right? And what better earth profession he can hide his identity behind than that of a funeral parlor director. Everything goes smoothly for the Tall Man until Mike Pearson (Michael Baldwin) witnesses him carting a body away that’s supposed to be buried in the ground. At first his brother Jody (Bill Thornbury) doesn’t believe him, but when Mike shows him a cut-off finger surrounded by ‘yellow blood’ in a little wooden box he had saved as proof, Jody starts to believe him. Excellent scene of the chrome sphere zooming down the funeral parlor hallway and ‘accidentally’ digging into the skull one of the Tall Man’s henchmen. A little screw appears out of it and starts to bore a hole through his skull, ejecting the excess blood out a hole in the back of the sphere. I wish there was more of the sphere although we’ll get to see a lot more of it again in PHANTASM II (1988). I also like the portal gateway scene where if you go through the two chrome poles, you’ll get to see the Tall Man’s alternative universe where the slaves are busy carrying caskets down a stone pathway. We even get to see Ice Cream Man, Reggie Bannister almost get sucked through it as well. I won’t give away the ending but let’s just say the Tall Man is temporarily disposed of until the next sequel comes out, although the dream element that’s supposed to encompass the whole sequence of events in the film, is a big negative against it. In fact, it brings it down a notch, unfortunately. Even so, I consider PHANTASM to be one of the best horror films of the 1970s. It managed to keep Avco/Embassy in business so they could bring us later horror stuff like ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1980); THE FOG (1980) and DEAD AND BURIED (1981) The MGM DVD also has a lot more extras on it than you would expect from other DVDs released by the same company, including 8mm behind-the-scenes footage of the making of PHANTASM; a 1979 interview down in Miami with director Coscarelli and Angus Scrimm; an appearance at a 1989 Fangoria convention by Scrimm, and movie & TV trailers for the film. It’s a labor of love by the truest fans of this film. 7 out of 10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
Budget 300000
Revenue 11988469
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi
Director Don Coscarelli
Writer Don Coscarelli
Actors A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono, 4-Track Stereo (Visurama)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Lenses and Panaflex Camera by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (processing), Metrocolor, Culver City (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm