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Phantasm DVD

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  • Additional Details
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: R
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Run Time: 88 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
  • Studio: Anchor Bay
  • DVD Release Date: April 10, 2007
  • Audio:
    ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
    ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC]
    ENGLISH: DTS 5.1 [CC]
  • Director: Don Coscarelli
  • Cast: Michael Baldwin,Bill Thornbury,Reggie Bannister,Kathy Lester
  • Genre: Horror
  • Color: Color
  • Includes:
    Phantasmagoria: 30 Minute Documentary and Interviews with the Cast and Crew of Phantasm
    Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Don Coscarelli and Stars Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm and Bill Thornbury
    Deleted Scenes
    Phantasm: Behind-the-Scenes
    Phantasm: Actors Having a Ball
    Phantasm TV Interview
    Fangoria TV Commercial with Angus Scrimm
    Angus Scrimm Convention Appearance
    Phantasm Trailer
    Phantasm III Trailer
    TV Spots
  • Release Date: 1979
This low-budget thriller won a richly deserved fan base when it first opened in 1979. Writer-director Don Coscarelli - later known for "Beast Master" (1982) and "Bubba Ho-Tep" (2002) - manages to mix big shocks with good laughs as a handful of suburban teenagers deal with ghouls, apparitions and mysterious disappearances whose epicenter is either the local graveyard or the neighborhood ice cream truck, take your pick. Among the fiends they battle, Angus Scrimm makes a particularly indelible impression as "The Tall Man." Many sequels and spin-offs followed, but this nugget still has the freshest life.

Expert Review:
Few filmmakers can craft an unreal, off-kilter atmosphere like Don Coscarelli and "Phantasm" is his finest hour. Tha Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) is an imposing villain, but made even moreso thanks to the story being told from a child's perspective (the tall becomes even taller, that way). The "waking dream" feel that permeates this movie creates the sensation that anything and everything can happen. And it does. By Mark Pellegrini of Adventures in Poor Taste

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