Phantasm (film)

Phantasm is a low-budget American horror film from Director Don Coscarelli's 1979 . The movie of about $300,000 over a long, overnight (supernatural) grave schennerturned out to be the starting point of a series of sequels. ==Story[ Edit] == Jody Pearson (Bill Thornbury), accompanied by his 13-year-old brother Michael (Michael Baldwin) and friend Reggie (Reggie Bannister) to the funeral of a common friend.Mike caught in the Morningside Funeral Home a strange, extremely long employee (Angus Scrimm) while those with striking much ease a coffin with his car content spite your face. He goes to investigate and convinces his company upon returning home that something strange is going on. He has the finger of the ' Tall Man ' at in a kind of yellow gunk, while still moving.

When the trio overnight on research goes out, they see the Tall Man at the cemetery. Together with an army in covering robes shrouded, murderous, dwarf beings (played by children) he is on the hunt for fresh corpses, where he with a plastic hose from the yellow stuff will turn out to pick up. When the Tall Man sees that there's prying eyes are present, he hesitate not to self for more seem to care. His mysterious flying silver balls, one massacre after another to focus. When someone saw and drilling metal, have outdated bump them from occurring in the brain of their victims work. The Tall Man shows itself not exactly human: injuries do him not bleeding, but the yellow stuff leaks, its power source. ==Sequels[ Edit] == Director Coscarelli sat again for all three sequels in the Director's Chair and ' Tall man ' Scrimm returned in each part back as antagonist. ==Trivia[ Edit] ==
 * Phantasm II
 * Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
 * Phantasm IV: Oblivion
 * The movie title was taken from the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who regularly used the word phantasm in his poems.
 * In the movie are various references to Dune .