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Watch: Phantoms 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – People have vanished in a small ski resort village nestled in the Rocky Mountains. Two sisters suspect it to be the work of a serial killer on the loose in town but there is no blood near the dead bodies, no sign of struggle n how can a single serial killer kill all the residents. The sisters come across a sheriff who is a former FBI agent. The agent calls up for back up. The agents’ associates gets hold of an academic who theorizes the town has fallen victim to the Ancient Enemy, which periodically wipes out civilizations including that of the Mayans and the Roanoke Island colonists..
Plot: In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
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Ratings:

	5.4/10 Votes: 21,252
	13% | RottenTomatoes
	26/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 280 Popularity: 9.496 | TMDB

Reviews:

The Thing’s long lost cousin (sort of) in an isolated town in the mountains of Colorado

Two sisters (Rose McGowan & Joanna Going) visit a town in the Rockies, which is mysteriously absent of people except for a few corpses. They eventually encounter a Sheriff (Ben Affleck) and his deputies as the mystery deepens (Liev Schreiber plays one of the deputies). Peter O’Toole is on hand as an eccentric British writer who assists the group while Clifton Powell plays the commanding officer of an Army unit sent to the town.

The movie came out in 1998 and was written by heralded horror author Dean Koontz (both the screenplay and the novel). The story is basically “The Thing” (1982) set in a Rockies town with various nuances, like the addition of two females. Speaking of whom, Rose and Joanna have stunning faces, but their beauty is never really capitalized on in the film. Joanna, for instance, wears ridiculously baggy tan slacks the entire runtime.

The first half is nice & mysterious with several genuinely creepy sequences whereas the second half focuses on the incredible source of the horror and the complexities thereof. People complain about the latter portions, and I can see where they’re coming from, but I like the way the protagonists put their heads together to try to figure out and defeat the diabolical phenomenon.

The film runs 1 hour, 36 minutes and was shot in Georgetown, Colorado.

GRADE: B-

The first thing we’d like to know is what we’re dealing with, biological, chemical, or other.

Directed by Joe Chappelle and written by Dean Koontz, who adapts from his own novel, Phantoms (not the greatest title all things considered) is a considerably well put together amalgamation of horror/sci-fi/creature feature tropes. If at times it feels clichéd and formulaic, then that is ultimately a curse of the cinematic genres it lives and breaths in.

Plot basically has two sisters played by Rose McGowan and Joanna Going arriving in the town of Snowfield, Cololrado, to find most of the inhabitants dead, diseased or dismembered. A trio of coppers turn up played by Liev Schreiber (shifty malevolence), Ben Affleck (square jawed bastion of heroism) and Nicky Katt (fodder of course), and thus a fight for survival ensues as Peter O’Toole’s sharp doctor character comes flying in to become the fulcrum of the story. So yep! There’s something very evil and nasty at work here and the makers expand upon the reasons why with a drip-feed mixture of mad science and intelligent thematic ideas.

The effects work is more than adequate and the strong cast list perform well up to scratch (nice to see O’Toole doesn’t phone it in to denigrate the story). Things are taken very seriously throughout, the makers in no way biting the hand that feeds them, while the requisite insertions of jump – shocks – twists and mayhem are handled with care and attention by the director. You may come away as I did with a hunger to dig out your copy of John Carpenter’s sublime The Thing? Which in truth is never a bad “thing,” but this is still sturdy stuff, a pic caked in genre cement, and crucially it doesn’t waste the time invested by the genre compliant viewers. 7/10

Not bad…but should be credited as a remake
This may have been based on a Dean Koontz novel, but Phantoms should acknowledge itself as being an unofficial remake of an old Hammer Studios film, X The Unknown, with which it shares it’s main antagonist. The only real difference is that Phantoms lends a more mystical slant to the idea (though primarily just at the beginning of the movie).

As a horror film, this movie is fun…very reminiscent of a good old 50’s or 60’s horror movie that immediately immerses you in the situation. The one problem with the film is that each character is interesting by themselves, but they don’t really gel together that well as a whole. Peter O’Toole is at his quirky best, and Ben Affleck is always enjoyable, so it’s really hard to complain about that.

The SFX are okay to middling, but work well with the atmospheric cinematography.

Definitely worth a rent!

Intelligent, atmospheric and highly under-appreciated.
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, it’s up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive. The first time I saw “Phantoms”, I liked it, but didn’t think too much of it. Recently deciding to rent it again for the hell of it, this film is so much better than the previous viewing, I mean REALLY good, one of the best Hollywood-produced horror films I’ve seen in a while, not to mention THE best Dean Koontz adaptation. Joe Chappelle, who’s films in the past unfortunately haven’t been very good, does an excellent job directing here, delivering a dark & genuinely haunting atmosphere, not to mention great cinematography and a strong visual style. This film proves he’s capable of directing a good movie if he’s given a strong script. Oh, that brings me to the script, which Koontz penned himself, having been (Quite understandably) disappointed in the previous adaptations, has done an excellent job with the screenplay. Not only is it intelligent and thought-provoking but is also tightly written. When was the last time we got a SMART horror film? OK, there are plenty out there, but not many that Hollywood have made recently, mind you! Performance-wise, everyone does a great job here, especially the creepy Liev Schreiber (scream 2). Special effects are carefully used, few and far between but generally quite good. Once we finally see the creature it’s kind of disappointing (I wish they had used the giant winged serpent described in the book) and quite vague. There’s some nice gore too.

“Phantoms” is a smart, creepy, underrated horror gem that deserves better than it’s gotten and really makes you think.

9/10.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min), 1 hr 32 min (92 min) (Argentina)
Budget 0
Revenue 5624282
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director Joe Chappelle
Writer Dean R. Koontz
Actors Peter O’Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going
Country United States, Japan
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras
Laboratory FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm