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Phantasm Reviews

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After their friend is murdered, two brothers begin a hunt in search of the killer. Their investigation leads them to the discovery of a startling and hideous secret. Read more

Starring	Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester
Director	Don Coscarelli
Genres	Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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- "...[The] strong point of the feature is that it's played for both horror and laughs....There's a nice tongue-in-cheek feeling to the whole thing..."
- 8071
- - Variety
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
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- - 4
  - 0
  Boy!!!!!!!
  
  Phantasm, from Don Coscarelli (sounds like he's from the godfather)is a wonderfully entertaining movie full of all those things the dark half of your mind ... read more »
  
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  - Merlin
  - London
  - 14 Feb 2006 at 15:24
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- - 0
  - 0
  Not very scary, but a watchable horror
  
  I saw this film back in the late 80s and remember being quite scared.
  
  Coming to it again now, it's not really scary and it's also very ... read more »
  
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- - SimonP69
  - 2 reviews
  - 26 Apr 2011 at 15:45
- - 0
  - 0
  HEAD THE BALL
  
  A watchable horror film from the 70s, a little dated now with laughable moments.
  
  I saw this film in the 70s when I rented it for my Super 8mm Sound ... read more »
  
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- - GRASSER
  - 12 reviews
  - Stockport
  - 10 Apr 2009 at 10:51
- - 0
  - 1
  Not too good
  
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  My husband wanted this as he saw it years ago....it wasn't any good now he is older!! We didn't even bother watching it all as I just couldn't ... read more »
  
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- 721978
- - a customer
  - Sutton Coldfield
  - 07 Mar 2009 at 17:36
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  Phantasm - My Review
  
  I should have watched this in the late 80's when I saw Evil Dead, Hellraiser et al and then it wouldn't have seemed quite as crappy. It was one of those... read more »
  
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- - DaddyTank
  - 160 reviews
  - Ulan Bator
  - 22 Sep 2008 at 13:15
- - 0
  - 0
  phantasm
  
  agrate first film for the older person
  
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- - a customer
  - Nottingham
  - 12 Aug 2008 at 15:38
- - 0
  - 0
  Balls
  
  Watch out for the flying ones.
  
  Very inventive, but you must be forgiving of the low budeget acting, as well as the ingenious effects.
  
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  - Huntingdon
  - 27 Feb 2008 at 17:46
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  Please - 16:9 not 4:3
  
  Decent film spoilt by bad transfer (from laserdisc??) - I'd wait for release in widescreen at correct ratio before hiring.
  
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- - StuP
  - 17 reviews
  - Waterlooville
  - 21 Dec 2007 at 13:20
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  'If this one doesnt scare you, your already dead.'
  
  That was the tag line when this opened first. I saw it in the cinema when I was 13, and it really frightenend me; I hate small things and this is full of evil ... read more »
  
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- - mark ashwaite
  - London
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 13:27
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  - 0
  I've watched worse
  
  I kind of liked this movie, though very odd and you have to pay attention to it to keep up with the plot, it was ok
  
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  - stafford uk
  - 04 Mar 2007 at 20:34
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  Awful
  
  A friend recommended this movie. We had to force ourselves to watch half an hour then stopped. No story and very poor acting of no story.
  
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- - a customer
  - London, England
  - 08 Jan 2007 at 11:01
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- - 4
  - 0
  Boy!!!!!!!
  
  Phantasm, from Don Coscarelli (sounds like he's from the godfather)is a wonderfully entertaining movie full of all those things the dark half of your mind ... read more »
  
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  - Merlin
  - London
  - 14 Feb 2006 at 15:24
- - 4
  - 2
  Phantasm
  
  As well as being brought up on horror films, i can tell you now that when i was a nipper and saw phantasm i was drawn in completely by the world of dark and ... read more »
  
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- 8853
- - a customer
  - England
  - 04 Jul 2004 at 18:27
- - 3
  - 0
  Doesn't stand the test of time
  
  The story goes that a boy who's parents recently died begins to notice strange things going on in his town that can't be explained - so he investigates ... read more »
  
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- - DaSilva
  - 8 reviews
  - Coventry
  - 26 Feb 2005 at 12:58
- - 2
  - 0
  2 stars for originality
  
  I had to give this two stars for the actual premise alone. The central idea does have to be one of the weirdest I have ever seen. However, as much as I would ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Yorkshire
  - 16 Jan 2005 at 21:09
- - 2
  - 0
  Classic little gem...
  
  I have never seeen this film before but decided that I probably should since it has quite such a cult following. Phantasm is a low budget horror directed by Don... read more »
  
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- - Mark
  - Berkshire
  - 02 May 2005 at 16:12
- - 2
  - 0
  Were we really that gullible in the '70s?
  
  Missed this first time around so thought I'd catch up. First, the good news - it's short (85 minutes). And that's it! As for the bad news, well, ... read more »
  
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- 161917
- - The Snow Dog
  - Cumbria
  - 16 Oct 2005 at 21:57
- - 2
  - 0
  Cult 70's Horror
  
  Classic for it's time when the usual horror fare on the menu was the up and coming slasher films.
  
  Although severely dated, flares and hair on the... read more »
  
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- - Jack Sewell
  - Midlands, UK
  - 13 Jul 2006 at 21:40
- - 2
  - 0
  "Boy!!!"
  
  Cult classic horror from the director of 'Bubba Ho-Tep', it is not the most accessable of the series, nor the most immediately enjoyable, but the ... read more »
  
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- - iggsta
  - England
  - 14 Nov 2004 at 17:16
- - 1
  - 0
  Messy horror film
  
  Phantasm has a good offbeat central idea, with an alien sending corpses through a gateway to a world with a higher gravity making dwarf slaves, but the story ... read more »
  
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- 88112
- - Lawrence Conquest
  - siberia
  - 04 Apr 2005 at 01:12
- - 3
  - 3
  Stunning Horror
  
  Having seen the first four films in this series and being a hater of sequels I can say that this is truly amazing. All of them are in fact. If you like horror ... read more »
  
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- 6785
- - a customer
  - Reading, England
  - 02 Jun 2004 at 01:08

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  After their friend is murdered, two brothers begin a hunt in search of the killer. Their investigation leads them to the discovery of a startling and hideous secret....