The Tall Man is back in another gore-fest of epic proportions as an army of ghouls and a squadron of skull-slicing silver spheres work overtime drilling for kills and thrills. Read more
| Starring | Reggie Bannister, Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm |
|---|---|
| Director | Don Coscarelli |
| Genres | Horror |
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The Tall Man is back in another gore-fest of epic proportions as an army of ghouls and a squadron of skull-slicing silver spheres work overtime drilling for kills and thrills.
| Starring | Reggie Bannister, Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm |
|---|---|
| Director | Don Coscarelli |
| Studio | DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT LTD |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 26 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 04 Aug 2000 Production year: 1993 |
| Format | DVD |
Starting just after where the last entry ended, this third instalment in the series continues the adventures of Reggie (Reggie Bannister) and Mike (A Michael Baldwin) as they battle the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) and his flying silver balls. Director Don Coscarelli tries to make things a little different with the addition of more humour and Gloria Lynne Henry as sexy female fighter Rocky. However, the jokes are more strange than funny, while the greatly promising Henry isn't used as much as we'd like. This is pretty much the same as the previous entry, though cheaper and slower than Coscarelli's other efforts. Yet another sequel, Phantasm IV: Oblivion, followed in 1998.
This second sequel to Don Coscarelli's labour of love lacks the ingeniousness of the first two parts. The Phantasm series has little in the way of plot, but the inventive way that the story was presented more than kept it afloat, and the result for the first two was very nice indeed. Because the invention isn't as strong here, the lack of story really shines through, despite Don's best attempts at covering it up with an array of new (and annoying) characters, a script that is basically a blending of snappy one-liners and sexual innuendo, and the poorest man's cult hero ever to grace the silver screen.Ther is plenty of other dvds about nowadays to beat this but if like me you like to see all the films in a series then go for it as its worth a viewing.
This second sequel to Don Coscarelli's labour of love lacks the ingeniousness of the first two parts. The Phantasm series has little in the way of plot, but the inventive way that the story was presented more than kept it afloat, and the result for the first two was very nice indeed. Because the invention isn't as strong here, the lack of story really shines through, despite Don's best attempts at covering it up with an array of new (and annoying) characters, a script that is basically a blending of snappy one-liners and sexual innuendo, and the poorest man's cult hero ever to grace the silver screen.Ther is plenty of other dvds about nowadays to beat this but if like me you like to see all the films in a series then go for it as its worth a viewing.