Phantoms
1998
Unspeakable horrors have mysteriously befallen the whole town of Snowfield, Colorado, leaving behind only a few mangled body parts and unanswered questions. Enter two vacationing sisters and a sheriff and deputy from a nearby town, who try to piece things together with the help of a scientist-turned-tabloid hack. But will they .. Read more
| Starring | Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck |
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| Director | Joe Chappelle |
| Genres | Horror |
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Phantoms
Unspeakable horrors have mysteriously befallen the whole town of Snowfield, Colorado, leaving behind only a few mangled body parts and unanswered questions. Enter two vacationing sisters and a sheriff and deputy from a nearby town, who try to piece things together with the help of a scientist-turned-tabloid hack. But will they unravel the mystery of the monstrous subterranean killing force before they become its prey
| Starring | Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck, Peter O'Toole, John Scott Clough, Bo Hopkins, Yvette Nipar, Nicky Katt, Rachel Shane, Clifton Powell, Rich Beall, Michael DeLorenzo, Judith Drake, Luke Eberl, William Hahn, Dean Hall |
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| Director | Joe Chappelle |
| Studio | HOLLYWOOD PICTURES HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 15 Jun 2006 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
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A curiously clunky mix of sci-fi and horror from Miramax offshoot Dimension Films, a company that has revitalised the teen horror market with movies such as Scream and The Faculty. Rose McGowan and Joanna Going play sisters who return to their isolated hometown and discover that virtually everyone has vanished. Ben Affleck is the puzzled local cop, while Peter O'Toole hams it up as a dotty scientist who holds the key to the mystery. However, despite the presence of Scream alumni McGowan and Liev Schreiber and a script from horror maestro Dean R Koontz (adapting his own novel), this fails in the fright department, with too much talk and not enough gore.
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The true horror here is seeing O'Toole reduced to appearing in this cheap and miserable mess, though he adds a little welcome gravitas; it is otherwise direly unimaginative, slackly directed and, for the most parts, badly acted.
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Phan-tastic!
This is based on the bestselling book by Dean Koontz. Dragged along by her older sister to the small town she is now living in, they find themselves alone, with nothing but dead people for company. Until the sherriff arrives, darkness falls and things start to fly around, ready to eat them. A good old fashioned scary story, decent acting (yes, even from Ben Affleck) and starring Rose McGowan (CHARMED) this is a fun, popcorn horror movie, perfect for a saturday night in .... Just don't go outside......
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
So wrong....
No no no!.... This is all so wrong! The girl is not being dragged anywhere, she is going to Snowfield because her mother had died, that's why the find of the first body is supposed to be so traumatic for her!... And on the way there the sisters are talking to each other and getting on actually quite well! The whole movie is so wrong! Wrong people are getting killed at the wrong times, even the number of policemans coming to Snowfields is wrong!! oh! and profesor Flyithe is british and defenietly not working for a news paper and he is suppposed to die and not make money out of the whole thing and he is not as smart as the movie makes him.... I really can't express enough how huge disapoinmment the whole movie was:(... I do understand that movies do need to cut and change some bits to make it a good and watchable movie, but this?!.... Maybe if you haven't read the book you will enjoy the movie, but for me the movie is shallow and unlike the book it did not grip my attention. If you want bestseller go for the book, the 'bang' comes on one of the very first pages, and you will be well occupied with different plots all coming together at the end....
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