I spent a while in a coma and then heavily drugged. The Phantasm movies really do feel like the scarier parts of that experience. Great series, Mr. Cats, you did a great job showing what is great about watching these films.
As a Canadian I can assure you we still regularly hit 30+ degrees celsius (90-100 farrenheit) all the way through august so it's definitely not that he's Canadian lol.
As a Canadian I can assure you we still regularly hit 30+ degrees celsius (90-100 farrenheit) all the way through August so it's definitely not that he's Canadian lol.
I just finished watching all the Phantasm movies and I think they may be the best franchise ever made, Reggie is my spirit animal, minus the unwanted sexual advances, honestly Matt, thank you for introducing me to these, well actually thanks for getting me to watch them, I've actually known they existed my whole life, I passed by the first two Phantasm movies on the shelf at my local video store for years and never once thought to check em out! Maybe I was too scared of the tall man, but damn so good!
And when they decided to drive up WHERE IT'S COLD, Reggie dies and the series ends, because PHANTASM WAS A SUMMER FRANCHISE! ...I liked the shot where the dimensions were crossing over. I thought that was well done.
Sometimes I click mindlessly through videos and leave them on in the BG while I write or play games. And then your music plays and I'm like "hell yeah it's Scaredy Matt!!" And stop what I'm doing to pay closer attention
This series was great, Scaredy Matt. Something I always liked about watching the series, as opposed to any single installment, is the mounting sense of watching an apocalypse that nobody seems to notice
No joke, last August I took a solo road trip to Yellowstone National Park, and acquired all the Phantasm movies in advance so as to have some nighttime entertainment in my no-internet cabin. I got through two. They are, objectively, summer vacation movies.
This is the first Phantasm movie I ever saw, back when I worked at an Alamo Drafthouse that played it when it came out. I had only a tertiary knowledge of the franchise, and the only Coscarelli film I had seen at the time was John Dies at the End, but I absolutely loved this super flawed movie to bits, seeing it with my best friend for free in a mostly empty theater. This is the film that made me go back and watch Phantasm from the beginning. I've loved rediscovering this franchise through your videos, which only serve to reaffirm in my mind that we have the exact same taste in cinema. Also, Mandy was made for the both of us. Quit being so selfish.
I hate how Ravager *looks* - and love how it *feels*. The ending makes me sob. I also screamed with delight when they managed to work out Phantasm's End into it in flashbacks? Like holy shit that's so cool. All the Phantasm films are real and not real. It's all so many cuils. It's about fighting your fate but its conversely about accepting death and it's inevitability in the form of the Tall Man and I just... I love it. I love every weird and frequently doofy minute of it and I could NOT be happier that they fully leaned into the inconsistent canon and made a film about that.
So can we all conclusively agree that Reggie should just never try to help attractive women he meets stranded by the side of the road? Either they're already dead and secretly a zombie, or more often his involvement directly leads to their death.
5:53 It was mentioned in phantasm 3 that reggie had a wife and daughter. In a scene where tim is in reggie's car and finds a photo of him alongside his wife and daughter.
I just want to say how much I love your whole presentation. The naturalistic, friendly yet slightly deranged delivery is always good but especially for the Scaredy Cats stuff. I am always grinning and giggling whenever I watch these.
I'm sorry to see this series ending, but I'm looking forward to what you attack next. How's about the Puppet Master movies? Or all the horror sequels that inexplicably happen in space for some reason... Wait, did puppet master do a space-based sequel?
Oh sheeeet I loved this movie as a kid, and have no recollection of this rap song you're talking about. I am now going to find it and listen to it 800 times on a loop.
I really liked the duality of Reggie searching for Mike in the desert, fighting off the Tall Man's minions in one reality and, in another, nodding in and out with dementia in a nursing home. As much as I hate to admit it, if there's one horror franchise I'd like to see get a proper reboot, it's 'Phantasm'. I think there's potential here if played smart.
...Who wants to bet this "summer is over" thing is gonna transition to talking about Christmas horror? Because "Christmas in July joke" and all that. I hope they talk about Christmas Evil, because boy howdy, that's a legit good character study. Either that or Silent Night Deadly Night 5 because, dear lord, that is A Thing...
I think RaVager finally explains why people are alive in some places, not in others, etc. Tall Man literally comes out and explains there are thousands of him in thousands of universes. Old folks home Reggie is one universe. Original Reggie is another. Apocalypse Reggie another. I kind of wish they'd continue the series in a different direction, using the Apocalypse universe with Jody, Rocky, etc. That one is bad as fuck.
As someone who has never heard of this series, doesn't really watch horror movies, and just hopped over from Thought Slime out of curiosity... this video was a wild ride.
From what I've gathered from the movies, this seems like such a perfect send-off for the series and I'm glad that it was about to swing all the way to "Even when it's bad, it's good" Glad that summer is over though! If only the world would follow your declaration and maybe push the temperature down some..
It works as a sendoff, but it's a shame Don Coscarelli spent so many years struggling to get any funding at all for these sequels, when the series deserved so much more
Watching this in the dead of winter, my pet theory is that being a little sweat glisten doesn't look out of place at the beach idk those are some of the most powerful orbs I've ever witnessed, ty for your labour the entertainment is much appreciated
Phantasm was actually one of my first horror movies. I def watched it before 10 because my pops loved it. He also used to scare the piss out of me by saying "booooy" in that voice. I'm glad to see someone else give this series props. A++ review for A++ childhood trauma.
I don't know If Ravager is a good movie but It felt like I was hanging out with friends I had not seen years and that's all I can say I was hoping for from the movie.
I cannot stress enough how much I have been looking forward to this review! I have been binging you all week on this channel and thought slime and we are now in a parasocial friendship buddy (edited to be slightly less creepy. sorry Matt)
The first Phantasm film Originally cost $300,000 to make, lo and behold in 2015, The fifth and final Phantasm cost $300,000 as well. The first and the last film working with the same budget, the difference is obviously because 1979 when the actors were younger, to 2015 where the actors are older, And even with the CGI, I guess you can’t make A. Michael Baldwin younger, Kathy Lester’s face gives Linda Evans a run for her money, it’s like Botox and CGI had a baby that should’ve been aborted. And there is no way to make Reggie Bannister younger.
Seriously Matt you have to let us know just why? Why is Phantasm a summer movie and why is summer ending on July 14th? Is it just purposely arbitrary because a lot of shit in reality is just arbitrary and we live in a bunch of systems that set up arbitrary standards and beliefs in order to reinforce and perpetuate itself? Or did you just make it arbitrary? Or is the whole point that both of those are true and not true and more... Kind of like Phantasm... you've made me think. I like it when a youtuber makes me think.
My favorite part about Reggie having a wife and daughter is that in the first movie he asks Mike if he wants to go on a several weeks long road trip. Yes, Reggie, bail on your family for a few weeks to take your dead friend's 13 year old brother on a road trip.
Is it just me or does it feel like horror is often, for lack of a better word, more actor-oriented than other film genres? Like between the 1980s and now we’ve had 5 different guys play Batman (6 if you count R Patt’s upcoming performance) meanwhile a lot of horror movie franchises have mostly kept the same lead actors (excluding remakes), like Robert Englund as Freddy, Bruce Campbell as Ash, Angus Scrimm as Tall Man, etc.
That might be just due to the different approach to the topic. The various Batman works are different interpretations of (more or less?) the same source material, not a series of consecutive films.
@@thecosmonaut9322 Must have been in a bad mood when I posted this. I love them all too and shitgood is a perfect description of AofD. Strangely, l watched the remake just yesterday, this would be only the second time I have seen it and I had a blast with it. Keep it horror, buddy👍
Vaseem Shakir it’s definitely an interesting, more serious take on the concept. If they make another I’ll probably watch it to see where that ending is headed. You too! :)
I had a blast with the summer movies that are the Phantasm series. Love this obviously summer/beach franchise. Really, I just love the Tall Man- so sorry to hear he died. If poorly executed movies with great potential are your thing, might I suggest the Hellraiser series?
bummed that you didn't mention the most important parts of the final two phantasm movies: That the titles are written such that the roman numerals are part of the name so you can call them "Phantasm OblFOURion" and "Phantasm RaFIVEager"
Mr Matt is a Canadian Americans are unaware that Canadian summer starts on July 7th and ends on July 14th of course by tradition at the end of summer you must cover yourself in maple syrup and sing Blame Canada
Ravager is the only one I haven't seen. Still... it's such a weird franchise that seems to constantly be changing its mind about what it is. Dark adventure movie or surrealistic metaphor? Why not both and neither and constantly alternating back and forth?
Ravager feels like Reggie achieving some kind of Phantasm Valhalla to me, if taken overly literally. He escapes the hospital reality to go with his friends on the road for a presumably eternal fight with the Tall Man. If that's a good idea or not, well, whatever, but that's what he decided to do. Also call me crazy but I'd at least give a new Phantasm attempt a watch. Perhaps Mike is old and tall enough to bring the concept around in a meta way and become the new Tall Man by now?
There is like a good 40% chance that that red farm house is the same red farm house as used in the 1968 Russ Meyer film "Vixen." Also, I'm not an overly-observant nerd who notices the wrong things at all.
Reggie literally mentions his wife and daughter in the car on the way home with Mike in part 2. His wife is named Celeste. Can't remember the daughter's name.
Somebody contact the library of Congress. This movie must survive.
I spent a while in a coma and then heavily drugged. The Phantasm movies really do feel like the scarier parts of that experience.
Great series, Mr. Cats, you did a great job showing what is great about watching these films.
_Desire to know more intensifies_
I'm amazed they never dropped the people with dwarfism in Jawa robes thing for all five films
Tall man had a variety of helpers: Lavender Lady, Jawas, spheres, just regular type dudes wearing suits or gas masks or whatever.
Let’s say the Phantasm films all took the right turn, are always correct, are always perfect, and are each the best in their own right.
Summer is over two weeks into July?
Oh I forgot the Scaredy Matt Cinematic Universe takes place in Canada.
As a Canadian I can assure you we still regularly hit 30+ degrees celsius (90-100 farrenheit) all the way through august so it's definitely not that he's Canadian lol.
It's still in September. They are jumping the gun.
I live in the TX Hellzone....all days are summer days
This is a perfect example of hegelian dialectics:
Phantasm 1: Thesis
Phantasm 2: Antithesis
Phantasm Ravager: Synthesis
I don’t know what in the Road Warrior is happening at the end of this movie, but if loving it is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
“July 14th, the end of summer.”
*Laughs in Floridian*
Kanuck is a state of mind.
enjoying the 110 degree heat? I sure hate it =D
Replace 'floridian' with 'texan' and that was literally my thought too
As a Canadian I can assure you we still regularly hit 30+ degrees celsius (90-100 farrenheit) all the way through August so it's definitely not that he's Canadian lol.
I just finished watching all the Phantasm movies and I think they may be the best franchise ever made, Reggie is my spirit animal, minus the unwanted sexual advances, honestly Matt, thank you for introducing me to these, well actually thanks for getting me to watch them, I've actually known they existed my whole life, I passed by the first two Phantasm movies on the shelf at my local video store for years and never once thought to check em out! Maybe I was too scared of the tall man, but damn so good!
And when they decided to drive up WHERE IT'S COLD, Reggie dies and the series ends, because PHANTASM WAS A SUMMER FRANCHISE!
...I liked the shot where the dimensions were crossing over. I thought that was well done.
Sometimes I click mindlessly through videos and leave them on in the BG while I write or play games. And then your music plays and I'm like "hell yeah it's Scaredy Matt!!" And stop what I'm doing to pay closer attention
This series was great, Scaredy Matt. Something I always liked about watching the series, as opposed to any single installment, is the mounting sense of watching an apocalypse that nobody seems to notice
That and the very related existential dread of watching the main actor age from a child to a 40 year old over the course of the series
Those scenes where they're driving from ghost town to ghost town really do hammer home the idea of a secret massacre.
No joke, last August I took a solo road trip to Yellowstone National Park, and acquired all the Phantasm movies in advance so as to have some nighttime entertainment in my no-internet cabin. I got through two. They are, objectively, summer vacation movies.
Phantasm is the closest thing to the "DARK TOWER" adaptation we'll ever get.
I hate deserts. They're coarse, and irritating, and they get everywhere.
desert 2020, make sand great again?
i think you mean desserts, no?
@@technopoptart Stop
@@caesaroctavianus3054 i did, a while ago
@@aircobraman1375 it was obviously a reference to that quote changed slightly to go with this video, you giant dingus
I don't actually watch movies but Matt is so awesome, I'll watch anything he puts out.
Not any movies?
@@moeszyslak3097 Yeah, some people just don't.
Watching a movie or a series alone is hard for me.
Thank you for going over Phantasm. Otherwise, how could it have even been summer?
This is the first Phantasm movie I ever saw, back when I worked at an Alamo Drafthouse that played it when it came out. I had only a tertiary knowledge of the franchise, and the only Coscarelli film I had seen at the time was John Dies at the End, but I absolutely loved this super flawed movie to bits, seeing it with my best friend for free in a mostly empty theater. This is the film that made me go back and watch Phantasm from the beginning. I've loved rediscovering this franchise through your videos, which only serve to reaffirm in my mind that we have the exact same taste in cinema. Also, Mandy was made for the both of us. Quit being so selfish.
I hate how Ravager *looks* - and love how it *feels*. The ending makes me sob. I also screamed with delight when they managed to work out Phantasm's End into it in flashbacks? Like holy shit that's so cool. All the Phantasm films are real and not real. It's all so many cuils. It's about fighting your fate but its conversely about accepting death and it's inevitability in the form of the Tall Man and I just... I love it. I love every weird and frequently doofy minute of it and I could NOT be happier that they fully leaned into the inconsistent canon and made a film about that.
So can we all conclusively agree that Reggie should just never try to help attractive women he meets stranded by the side of the road? Either they're already dead and secretly a zombie, or more often his involvement directly leads to their death.
5:53 It was mentioned in phantasm 3 that reggie had a wife and daughter. In a scene where tim is in reggie's car and finds a photo of him alongside his wife and daughter.
But that could be any woman and girl he is related to
And they died in the second movie, that was the funeral they went to, he mentioned his wife
I never herd of the Phantasm movies but i kinda want to check them out now.
Thax Mat
I just want to say how much I love your whole presentation. The naturalistic, friendly yet slightly deranged delivery is always good but especially for the Scaredy Cats stuff. I am always grinning and giggling whenever I watch these.
I'm sorry to see this series ending, but I'm looking forward to what you attack next. How's about the Puppet Master movies? Or all the horror sequels that inexplicably happen in space for some reason... Wait, did puppet master do a space-based sequel?
It would cost too much
Oh yeah thatd be sick, Mark from the room starred in the prequel
This has been a phantasmic summer with this great summer series.
This video ending with a Christmas song was not what I anticipated. Yours is a curious way, Scaredy McMatts.
Sound like one of those franchise sendoffs where everybody comes back and they try to explain some unanswered questions. I love those.
Or just cause so many more. Both are good!
It's barely a horror movie but Elvira: Mistress of the Dark has a truly awful rap song at the end of it, I'm sure you'd love it
Oh sheeeet I loved this movie as a kid, and have no recollection of this rap song you're talking about.
I am now going to find it and listen to it 800 times on a loop.
Ravager made me cry at the end, it was so good.
that musical number that was a callback to the first movie made me 🥺
I really liked the duality of Reggie searching for Mike in the desert, fighting off the Tall Man's minions in one reality and, in another, nodding in and out with dementia in a nursing home.
As much as I hate to admit it, if there's one horror franchise I'd like to see get a proper reboot, it's 'Phantasm'. I think there's potential here if played smart.
I'm glad this movie didn't make you cry like a nostalgic baby because it sure didn't make me cry like a nostalgic baby 🥲
Anyone else super sad this series is over now? It gave me something great to look forward to every week
Your speech at the end of this video really encapsulated my love of this genre so poetically
Wow the re-use of that song but seeing such a huge passage of time kinda made me tear up for some reason.
That was nice. I liked that.
Sounds like you said 8 years after Oblivion, but I think you mean 18.
Either way, I love ya Matt.
I wish there was a cult community that would do midnight showings of all these like RHPS, it would be epic
The last phantasm movie?? Oh no... What are we gonna do for the rest of summer???
I literally just said "Ooh, new Phantasm."
Oh! I get it now! The Phantasm movies are summer movies like Die Hard is an xmas movie!
...Who wants to bet this "summer is over" thing is gonna transition to talking about Christmas horror? Because "Christmas in July joke" and all that. I hope they talk about Christmas Evil, because boy howdy, that's a legit good character study. Either that or Silent Night Deadly Night 5 because, dear lord, that is A Thing...
I love Ravager. Great work, Scaredy Matt!
Thanks for explaining these confusing movies to me Matt!
I think RaVager finally explains why people are alive in some places, not in others, etc. Tall Man literally comes out and explains there are thousands of him in thousands of universes. Old folks home Reggie is one universe. Original Reggie is another. Apocalypse Reggie another.
I kind of wish they'd continue the series in a different direction, using the Apocalypse universe with Jody, Rocky, etc. That one is bad as fuck.
As someone who has never heard of this series, doesn't really watch horror movies, and just hopped over from Thought Slime out of curiosity... this video was a wild ride.
I loved this whole series of videos.
From what I've gathered from the movies, this seems like such a perfect send-off for the series and I'm glad that it was about to swing all the way to "Even when it's bad, it's good"
Glad that summer is over though! If only the world would follow your declaration and maybe push the temperature down some..
It works as a sendoff, but it's a shame Don Coscarelli spent so many years struggling to get any funding at all for these sequels, when the series deserved so much more
Being from New Orleans when ya said "Soon it will be Dark and Cold" that was the most hopeful sentence I've heard in a long time.
Great series, a joy to watch your videos on it. Thanks Scaredy Cats!
I like your shirt. Once I hunt down these movies I will absolutely return to watch these
Watching this in the dead of winter, my pet theory is that being a little sweat glisten doesn't look out of place at the beach idk those are some of the most powerful orbs I've ever witnessed, ty for your labour the entertainment is much appreciated
ravanger made me shead a tear
and im a cold hearted bastard
I'm fucking delighted.
Phantasm was actually one of my first horror movies. I def watched it before 10 because my pops loved it. He also used to scare the piss out of me by saying "booooy" in that voice. I'm glad to see someone else give this series props. A++ review for A++ childhood trauma.
Nice shirt. I almost bought the same one.
tysm mildo for making what became a huge comfort series for me :)) ive never seen the movies tho
That was good planning to have the last episode release on today, July 14th, the traditional end of Summer.
What happened to Tim?
WHAT HAPPENED TO TIM?!
i love rocky
ty for this whole summery series it really took the edge off the heat, and now summer's over!
Lol it’s already dark and cold here. It’s the middle of the plum rain season. Also Rocky!!!!! Yesssssssssssssssss. I love her so much holy shit.
Im a little late to the party buuuuuuut...... but I am here. Good job, I love this franchise.
A great finale to a fun series! Can't wait to see what you do next Scardey Matt!
I don't know If Ravager is a good movie but It felt like I was hanging out with friends I had not seen years and that's all I can say I was hoping for from the movie.
I cannot stress enough how much I have been looking forward to this review! I have been binging you all week on this channel and thought slime and we are now in a parasocial friendship buddy
(edited to be slightly less creepy. sorry Matt)
This was a really interesting journey, thank you
Holly hell. Is your frozen Canadian north summer actually over?? I've got another four miserable months to endure down here.
Yeah, in Texas we have summer til October 🥵
I enjoyed this fun ride through the Phantasm series.
"She got orbed" fucking sent me for some reason
Can you please talk about The Lair of the White Worm? That is the most crazy low-budget horror movie I’ve ever seen
The first Phantasm film Originally cost $300,000 to make, lo and behold in 2015, The fifth and final Phantasm cost $300,000 as well. The first and the last film working with the same budget, the difference is obviously because 1979 when the actors were younger, to 2015 where the actors are older, And even with the CGI, I guess you can’t make A. Michael Baldwin younger, Kathy Lester’s face gives Linda Evans a run for her money, it’s like Botox and CGI had a baby that should’ve been aborted. And there is no way to make Reggie Bannister younger.
Reggie = To Phantasm what Ash was to evil Dead.
Thank you again for reviewing these films.
So... I watched the whole series because of the trailer for Ravager. I don’t think I’m disappointed?
Yeah I really need to get around to watching Phantasm 3.
it's fun and stoopid. I love it
Seriously Matt you have to let us know just why? Why is Phantasm a summer movie and why is summer ending on July 14th? Is it just purposely arbitrary because a lot of shit in reality is just arbitrary and we live in a bunch of systems that set up arbitrary standards and beliefs in order to reinforce and perpetuate itself? Or did you just make it arbitrary? Or is the whole point that both of those are true and not true and more... Kind of like Phantasm... you've made me think. I like it when a youtuber makes me think.
Yes. To all the questions. This is thoughtslime, not what culture or watchmojo
Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show, I should really just relax." Oh, Sca-a-a-aredy C-a-a-a-a-aa-aaats!
My favorite part about Reggie having a wife and daughter is that in the first movie he asks Mike if he wants to go on a several weeks long road trip. Yes, Reggie, bail on your family for a few weeks to take your dead friend's 13 year old brother on a road trip.
So Reggies existence was the real Phantasm all along....
Well, there's another thing that I want to watch but will probably not get around to for years.
I see that you too recognized that Reggie played the song from the first film.
Happy Bastille Day Scaredy Matt!
Summer ends on my birthday?
Is it just me or does it feel like horror is often, for lack of a better word, more actor-oriented than other film genres? Like between the 1980s and now we’ve had 5 different guys play Batman (6 if you count R Patt’s upcoming performance) meanwhile a lot of horror movie franchises have mostly kept the same lead actors (excluding remakes), like Robert Englund as Freddy, Bruce Campbell as Ash, Angus Scrimm as Tall Man, etc.
That might be just due to the different approach to the topic.
The various Batman works are different interpretations of (more or less?) the same source material, not a series of consecutive films.
I get what you mean, but it's mostly you.
if you are talking about cinematic batmans you forgot batman mask of the phantasm so kevin conroy counts so 6 going on 7
Leprechaun rapping: Am I just a joke to you, laddy?!!!
Angus Scrimm, noooo :(
Loved this series, maybe some Evil Dead next? Army Of Darkness is particularly shitgood
Yes, it's the fourth best evil dead movie AKA the worst one.
Vaseem Shakir tbh, I would have put it above the remake from a few years back, but it is pretty bad. Yet, I still enjoyed it. I love some bad movies.
@@thecosmonaut9322 Must have been in a bad mood when I posted this. I love them all too and shitgood is a perfect description of AofD. Strangely, l watched the remake just yesterday, this would be only the second time I have seen it and I had a blast with it. Keep it horror, buddy👍
Vaseem Shakir it’s definitely an interesting, more serious take on the concept. If they make another I’ll probably watch it to see where that ending is headed.
You too! :)
I had a blast with the summer movies that are the Phantasm series. Love this obviously summer/beach franchise. Really, I just love the Tall Man- so sorry to hear he died. If poorly executed movies with great potential are your thing, might I suggest the Hellraiser series?
bummed that you didn't mention the most important parts of the final two phantasm movies: That the titles are written such that the roman numerals are part of the name so you can call them "Phantasm OblFOURion" and "Phantasm RaFIVEager"
I can’t believe it’s literally winter now
okay I will give this movie a second chance
Matt just pulled a Jedi mind trick on you. Ravager is the fifth best Phantasm movie.
Might have to give Ravager another chance.
Mr Matt is a Canadian Americans are unaware that Canadian summer starts on July 7th and ends on July 14th of course by tradition at the end of summer you must cover yourself in maple syrup and sing Blame Canada
Ravager is the only one I haven't seen. Still... it's such a weird franchise that seems to constantly be changing its mind about what it is. Dark adventure movie or surrealistic metaphor? Why not both and neither and constantly alternating back and forth?
Ravager feels like Reggie achieving some kind of Phantasm Valhalla to me, if taken overly literally. He escapes the hospital reality to go with his friends on the road for a presumably eternal fight with the Tall Man. If that's a good idea or not, well, whatever, but that's what he decided to do.
Also call me crazy but I'd at least give a new Phantasm attempt a watch. Perhaps Mike is old and tall enough to bring the concept around in a meta way and become the new Tall Man by now?
There is like a good 40% chance that that red farm house is the same red farm house as used in the 1968 Russ Meyer film "Vixen." Also, I'm not an overly-observant nerd who notices the wrong things at all.
So the real RAVAGER was TIME!
But also dementia.
And Spheres..... Always Spheres.....
I WISH summer were over, ugh.
Reggie literally mentions his wife and daughter in the car on the way home with Mike in part 2. His wife is named Celeste. Can't remember the daughter's name.
Summer is over in mid-July in your part of Canada? Are you trying to get us all to sneak over the border to take up residence there?
Did they just say summer ends July 14th? A+