So I was not expecting the High Gravity planet to be the explanation for all the tiny figures and was fully ready to accept the Tall Man just- takes the height from the people he captures to make himself taller
The Oregon thing is true. One time me and my dad were in Portland because we have family there. He was kinda sick and was coughing a lot and I swear there was an ice cream man peering at me behind every corner
Want to say, I have made rewarching your phantasm reviews a yearly tradition, as summer becomes fall, i feel the pull to enjpy the last bit of summer fun, thank you Mildred
This is fantastic, this is probably my all time favorite horror franchise, and it's so underrated. Everyone is all about Freddy and Jason and stuff, but GODDAMN, THE TALL MAN. THANK YOU THANK YOU SCAREDY MATT!! This series gets NO LOVE and this video makes me SO VERY HAPPY.
I was disappointed with the ending. I wanted to learn more about who the Tall Man was before he was the Tall Man. That was set up in the previous movie. What I LOVE about the film is that the sequels always picks up where the last one left off. No reboots, no ignoring what came before. Halloween now has FOUR different time lines!
@@davidterry9997 Was there a time before he was the Tall Man? I've only seen the first three films, and haven't seen any of them, with the exception of the first one, for a very long time.
I'm glad my first time seeing Phantasm was on the big screen a few years ago, because that was an experience. The atmosphere, the music, the cast, it really unsettled me in a way that most other horror movies can't.
I wasn't old enough to see this at the cinema but caught it's first American network broadcast. It played on CBS Friday Night Latenight at 12:35 AM, directly following "The Zombie", an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. I was the only one awake in the house, sitting with my back to a large living room, all the lights off, and next to the front door which would occasionally make a creak or crack sound as the temperatures outside lowered. One of the greatest movie-watching experiences I've ever had.
For the record, as soon as you said, "But Matt, how is Phantasm a summer franchise?" 17 seconds in, I immediately replied in my head, "Because of Reggie, the ice cream man" Your audience is on the same page as you, Scaredy Matt :D ... ... ... Still, I want you to know this is a begrudging like I'm giving this vid. It's excellent as always, but you don't take shots at Turok 2 and get away with it! That game is (mostly) INCREDIBLE. Seriously, just nab that HD version on XBone or PC and have at it - it still absolutely (mostly) holds up. It certainly deserves the name Cerebral Bore for those little shiny balls that drill into people's (or Raptors') heads. Hell, the Turok versions are _even better_ because they *explode* when they're done, so... yeah, take that, "Phantasm balls." Where's your bonus head explosions? I think we know who deserves the name more.... You wanna take a shot at a video game, you feel free to take a shot at Blood 2: The Chosen in any of your future Phantasm videos though. That game _also_ rips off Phantasm's Sentinel Spheres with their super lazily-named "Orb" weapon :P
Ah, sun, sea, chill music, vibrant shirts... What perfectly calming scenery. *Sweats and desperately tries not to look out of my window for 10 minutes*
Seriously, pallbearing is so difficult. It's a combo of, having to maintain a certain sense of somber dignity while having to lift a heavy coffin that, if you've never done it before, you have no clue how heavy it is until you actually pick it up, AND you have to walk with it!? Seriously just embalm me. Make it easier for everyone.
@@rickc2102 nah clearly they mean to mummify their corpse and chuck them in a hole boxless. Just toss that bad body on a stretcher and get it buried, no fuss.
I was the paw bearer for one relative, and the other was cremated. For the one that was cremated, as his closest living relative I had to carry the large concrete box to the grave site. It wasn't really any easier, or less awkward. In fact there was more attention on me specifically, but I guess at least only one person had to do it. There's just no winning. Someone is going to have a stressful awkward day carrying your dead body one day.
Truer words are rarely spoken. The "maintaining a certain sense of somber dignity" when I was a pallbearer was one of, if not THE, hardest internal battles I have ever fought. And, yeah, empty coffins are heavy... so, one being used is that much worse. Just like anger, or fear, can enhance one's physical abilities; sorrow, or depression, can sap it. I have long said, "Just put me in a pine box, and plant a tree over me." This was not only because I am an environmental science major, or the symbolism, but also due to cost- and this was only hammered home further after my personal experience (I had attended funerals before, grandparents and such, but had never had to arrange/pay for, etc). The death industry, in America at least, is a ridiculously sick and predatory one. Funeral costs are astronomical, even for basic services- and funeral homes take FULL advantage. One need's life insurance, not to help pick up slack and take care of survivors, but just to pay for the damn funeral and services.
Oh, Reggie! I watch the whole Phantasm series every year, usually around June, when my Halloween season is just getting started (Halloween goes from about June until the 3rd Thursday of November 'round my way). These movies are the most incomprehensibly brilliant things to come out of the seventies, eighties, and whenever. Well done!
Great. So I'm finally unable to avoid watching the fifth film. As much as I enjoy some of the sequels, their very existence does some harm to the final scenes of the movie. The Tall Man is no longer a phantasmagorical manifestation of Mike's struggle to cope with loss. He's literally and indisputably a reality-warping inter-dimensional extraterrestrial.
I admit I do like the original Phantasm's ambiguity. You can rationalize it in light of later installments as the Tall Man dragging Mike from a universe where Jody is alive but Reggie is dead to one where Reggie is alive but Jody is dead, then bringing him another Jody from a different universe in III.
Allow me to submit evidence: Tallman is omnipresent, can't be killed, has an army of diverse species of monsters, resurrects the dead, owns a hot, red dimension. Should I go on?
I think it depends on your personal interpretation and how much you feel the subsequent sequels mean anything to the lore of the Tall Man. I say that because, iirc, there's one sequel (want to say 3?) where they talk about how he's the manifestation of nightmares... which raises a more questions than it answers, but kind of makes sense in a way? I feel like him being a representation of nightmare itself is pretty feasible. It just needs a better explanation. I feel like I have to rewatch all of them over again because I barely remember anything.
Some advice: Go in with low expectations, that way you will be able to enjoy it. It's not bad, and some parts are actually good, but it should have been so much better. He knew it would be the last one, had tons of years to work on the story, yet it was still disappointing.
My dad used to call me "BOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY!!!" all the time and when I was old enough to watch this movie we watched it together, presumably because he was tired of me not getting the reference. As soon as the next day my brain had wiped the memory of nearly all the film from my brain under the presumption that it was just a very strange dream.
If you enjoyed Phantasm you should check out one of the directors other films called John Dies at the End its horrific funny and inventive ok shameless plug for Bubba Ho Tep as well
@@ScaredyCatsTV Phantasm makes me think of the 1985 movie House, which was also dream-like and nonsensical. If you like one you'll probably like the other.
@@furiousapplesack Except that House had a pretty clear and very specific theme dealing with grief and PTSD. So a sort of Phantasm meets Jacob's Ladder.
I really do love Phantasm. It has this special place in my heart so I am looking forward to you talking more about this strange, goofy film series. I also just realized you might talk about Candyman later when the sequel is close to release and that will be frickin' wicked. I'm so glad that you started this channel and thank you for the work you put into all of your videos.
Oh man--I was just thinking about this movie recently! My dad had the first three movies on VHS when I was a kid and I watched them on a dinky little portable tv/vcr in my room. It all seems like a fever dream when I try to remember it, though. I found this channel at the right time--can't wait for the rest!
I just spilled soup all over my needlework and need something in the background while I clean up and wash and rewind all my thread. Nothing better than some Summer Phantasm for such occasions.
I realized that I remember you talking about the “sweaty months”” last year, and that I’ve been a fan at least that long. Crazy year, right?!? I’ve learned I’m non-binary this year(tx for being an excellent role model) and the world has exploded in a scary, sad, but I believe ultimately positive direction. You’ve helped remind me of the terrible/wonderful movies of my childhood n youth, and I’m digging seeing them again from a new perspective. ❤️
Yay, more nb siblings. The world is strange right now but I certainly think we are moving towards good things Phoenix out of the ashes and whatnot. Good luck to you ♥️
No one seems to comment on the fact that in Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep", a guy takes the form of his daughter ... to get married to a guy. Lovecraft didn't do it to get tits in his story either (but he probably didn't really think it through either). It actually remains a mystery why he did it at all - showing two guys married for an enormously long time. Anyway, I love your perspective on philosophy, critical theory, culture ... and horror movies. My favourite subjects! Kind regards from Belgium.
In light of later installments, we can rationalize what happens in the first Phantasm as follows - Mike moves between dimensions at least once in this film; when he transitions from a universe where Reggie was killed to one where Reggie is alive but Jody died a year ago. Phantasm II then continues in the second universe with Mike-1 and Reggie-2, where Jody is dead. Phantasm III's Jody may be from yet another universe; he is killed by the Tall Man and converted into a sphere. In IV Mike (still, I think, universe-1 Mike?) travels back in time and kills this universe's Jebediah Morningside, but this fails to stop the Tall Man. Sphere-Jody is revealed to be a pawn of the Tall Man. In Ravager Reggie-2 (presumably) is bounced back and forth between universe-2, now largely taken over by the Tall Man, and yet another universe where he is older and suffering from dementia, but Jody is alive. Eventually he is rescued by what we assume is Mike-1 in universe-2, while dying in universe-3.
I feel like this series was purposefully designed so that we would never know for sure just what the hell we watched and would be unable to properly explain it to others.
@@FullMoonOctober Here's a mind screw that I would've loved to see: One of the ideas Don Coscarelli had for the fifth movie was to have both actors who have played Mike in it, playing different versions of the character at the same time.
Oh wow I played Turok! It was probably the late 90s or early 2000s? A first person shooter where you fight dinosaurs for some reason. I remember the cerebral bore! Thanks for the blast from the past!
I've wanted to see this movie for years actually, so awesome that you took on this franchise. And I believe Turok 2 deserves the name as much as Phantasm, I have played that game despite it being way before my time and I loved it. It's actually a fantastically fun shooter with super cool weapons.
Wow, you talked about the lady/sex/murder thing kind of. This has been a curiosity of mine for quite some time. The Tall Man's motivation is his job. Harvesting corpses for an interdimensional slave trade. He has no need for a few murdered teens, given the elaborate funeral home/cemetery grift, and a missing person case in a small town could jeopardize the entire operation. He actually has motivation to not do these things, but like other sex killers, The Tall Man is impulsive. These late night "trysts" are the only time we see The Tall Man outside of work. . . on his free time. . . engaging in his hobby. There's an entire rabbit hole here, and I'm glad I'm not the only one to question it's implications.
Holy cow I remember seeing this movie back when movies were on tv and you had no idea what you were watching and I was too young to care anyway but now I know what movie it was and there's an entire series of it??
Been anxiously waiting for you to talk about Phantasm ever since I found this channel. It's not my favorite horror franchise of all time, not even close. I have many criticisms of every movie in the series actually. Regardless, I have to recommend that people watch it if only for the soundtrack. You said it best, the soundtrack is "Delicious." To me, the theme song to this movie is the best horror movie theme song of all time. Not Halloween, not The Exorcist, not Psycho, and not Jaws but PHANTASM.
Turn that sphere upside down so the knifey bits are stabbing the maxillary sinuses and this is the perfect representation of the headache I’ve had all day! And now that it’s gone I must temp fate and look at a phone screen cause it’s summer, so it’s phantasm time.
One of my favourite things is the special edition boxset of all the Phantasm DVDs i bought years ago where the case is a sphere. I'd rescue that from a fire.
My favorite horror franchise. I don’t think there’s a bad Phantasm film (the second one was a little weaker comparatively, but still a fun ride). I’m still amazed at how they managed to maintain a continuity over several decades.
Joe Bob Briggs played 4 of these in a marathon for his Christmas special a couple years ago. And I created a fake trailer for a Phantasm Christmas Special. So, pretty sure this is a Christmas movie.
I got as far as the "dream logic but on purpose" part and went to go watch it myself and now I'm back to finish this video. oh boy I was not prepared for the "fear is the (mind) killer" scene from Dune to be in it
I remember when this used to be on Saturday afternoon TV all the time, before every channel had to be network affiliated. On the first viewing, I really thought the blood was yellow because, well Saturday afternoon TV. They used to either blur, or do redubs for the TV version, so we figured they changed the blood for TV. It wasn't until I saw it on video that I got the yellow blood was intentional.
As a strange aside, 'Fantasm' is the name of a 1976 Australian softcore movie. I knew of Fantasm before the American horror Phantasm, so whenever I see the latter, I always think of the former. The director of Fantasm went on to direct Patrick, a 1978 horror/slasher/mind power movie that might be suitable for your channel to review.
It is not only the custom in Oregon, it's part of our state's constitution
So there are a Kentucky Colonel, a Nebrasca Admiral and an Oregon Ice Cream Man?
Fellow Oregonian here. Can confirm
That and the expulsion of non-whites
as an oregonian, I have no clue what customs you are even talking about.
Ice Creama Nocta
phantasm following the 'the land before time' formula of 'how do we get rid of the bad guy? I dunno drop rocks on em I guess'
He cant swim with those scrawny arms!
To be fair, dropping rocks is how we got rid of ALL the dinosaurs, so at least it's historically accurate.
"Tall Man says Trans Rights" is the horror energy we need right now.
well, more "trans rights to stab a bloke", but given the current world situation i think that still works
So I was not expecting the High Gravity planet to be the explanation for all the tiny figures and was fully ready to accept the Tall Man just- takes the height from the people he captures to make himself taller
Now I want a Tee-Shirt that says "Summer Fun-Tasum!" next to a picture of a small child playing with a Chrome Beach Ball.
The Oregon thing is true. One time me and my dad were in Portland because we have family there. He was kinda sick and was coughing a lot and I swear there was an ice cream man peering at me behind every corner
I am contractually obligated to watch any movie set in Oregon
Don't go back and rewatch Short Circuit. It's very yikes.
Want to say, I have made rewarching your phantasm reviews a yearly tradition, as summer becomes fall, i feel the pull to enjpy the last bit of summer fun, thank you Mildred
This is fantastic, this is probably my all time favorite horror franchise, and it's so underrated. Everyone is all about Freddy and Jason and stuff, but GODDAMN, THE TALL MAN. THANK YOU THANK YOU SCAREDY MATT!! This series gets NO LOVE and this video makes me SO VERY HAPPY.
Shudder remastered Phantasm so its getting some love.
I was disappointed with the ending. I wanted to learn more about who the Tall Man was before he was the Tall Man. That was set up in the previous movie. What I LOVE about the film is that the sequels always picks up where the last one left off. No reboots, no ignoring what came before. Halloween now has FOUR different time lines!
@@davidterry9997 Was there a time before he was the Tall Man? I've only seen the first three films, and haven't seen any of them, with the exception of the first one, for a very long time.
@@dunningdunning4711 Yes, he is a kind scientist doing good for people, until he discovers this other dimension. I think that's in Phantasm IV.
Totally agree, overlooked & underappreciated.
Angus Scrimm yelling "BOY!" brings me pure delight.
I'm glad my first time seeing Phantasm was on the big screen a few years ago, because that was an experience. The atmosphere, the music, the cast, it really unsettled me in a way that most other horror movies can't.
I wasn't old enough to see this at the cinema but caught it's first American network broadcast. It played on CBS Friday Night Latenight at 12:35 AM, directly following "The Zombie", an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. I was the only one awake in the house, sitting with my back to a large living room, all the lights off, and next to the front door which would occasionally make a creak or crack sound as the temperatures outside lowered. One of the greatest movie-watching experiences I've ever had.
For the record, as soon as you said, "But Matt, how is Phantasm a summer franchise?" 17 seconds in, I immediately replied in my head, "Because of Reggie, the ice cream man"
Your audience is on the same page as you, Scaredy Matt :D
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Still, I want you to know this is a begrudging like I'm giving this vid. It's excellent as always, but you don't take shots at Turok 2 and get away with it! That game is (mostly) INCREDIBLE. Seriously, just nab that HD version on XBone or PC and have at it - it still absolutely (mostly) holds up. It certainly deserves the name Cerebral Bore for those little shiny balls that drill into people's (or Raptors') heads. Hell, the Turok versions are _even better_ because they *explode* when they're done, so... yeah, take that, "Phantasm balls." Where's your bonus head explosions? I think we know who deserves the name more....
You wanna take a shot at a video game, you feel free to take a shot at Blood 2: The Chosen in any of your future Phantasm videos though. That game _also_ rips off Phantasm's Sentinel Spheres with their super lazily-named "Orb" weapon :P
Ah, sun, sea, chill music, vibrant shirts...
What perfectly calming scenery.
*Sweats and desperately tries not to look out of my window for 10 minutes*
Seriously, pallbearing is so difficult. It's a combo of, having to maintain a certain sense of somber dignity while having to lift a heavy coffin that, if you've never done it before, you have no clue how heavy it is until you actually pick it up, AND you have to walk with it!? Seriously just embalm me. Make it easier for everyone.
Embalming is standard practice, and doesn't make the corpse any lighter or easier to dispose of. Do you mean cremate you?
@@rickc2102 nah clearly they mean to mummify their corpse and chuck them in a hole boxless. Just toss that bad body on a stretcher and get it buried, no fuss.
I was the paw bearer for one relative, and the other was cremated. For the one that was cremated, as his closest living relative I had to carry the large concrete box to the grave site. It wasn't really any easier, or less awkward. In fact there was more attention on me specifically, but I guess at least only one person had to do it. There's just no winning. Someone is going to have a stressful awkward day carrying your dead body one day.
Truer words are rarely spoken. The "maintaining a certain sense of somber dignity" when I was a pallbearer was one of, if not THE, hardest internal battles I have ever fought. And, yeah, empty coffins are heavy... so, one being used is that much worse.
Just like anger, or fear, can enhance one's physical abilities; sorrow, or depression, can sap it.
I have long said, "Just put me in a pine box, and plant a tree over me." This was not only because I am an environmental science major, or the symbolism, but also due to cost- and this was only hammered home further after my personal experience (I had attended funerals before, grandparents and such, but had never had to arrange/pay for, etc). The death industry, in America at least, is a ridiculously sick and predatory one. Funeral costs are astronomical, even for basic services- and funeral homes take FULL advantage. One need's life insurance, not to help pick up slack and take care of survivors, but just to pay for the damn funeral and services.
Embalming still requires you be buried.
Funnily enough, my wife also calls me a "cerebral bore."
Phantasm is a film that freaked me out as a child. The portal to another world was like whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
As a person living in Oregon, I can confirm this is the way things work.
The Bene Gesserit approve of this movie review.
That "happy pride month" line really got me I was not expecting that
Oh, Reggie! I watch the whole Phantasm series every year, usually around June, when my Halloween season is just getting started (Halloween goes from about June until the 3rd Thursday of November 'round my way). These movies are the most incomprehensibly brilliant things to come out of the seventies, eighties, and whenever. Well done!
6:46 onward is real life gun safety rules and anyone watching should pay heed.
Thanks for shining on this classic.I met & hung out w/Reggie B. once at a film con.Great guy.In my top 10 films ,forever !
I wonder how many fan letter scrim got in his life. He seemed like a super kind dude
OMFG I NEVER KNEW WHERE THAT "SHOOT TO KILL OR YOU DON'T SHOOT AT ALL" SAMPLE CAME FROM!
Great. So I'm finally unable to avoid watching the fifth film. As much as I enjoy some of the sequels, their very existence does some harm to the final scenes of the movie. The Tall Man is no longer a phantasmagorical manifestation of Mike's struggle to cope with loss. He's literally and indisputably a reality-warping inter-dimensional extraterrestrial.
I admit I do like the original Phantasm's ambiguity. You can rationalize it in light of later installments as the Tall Man dragging Mike from a universe where Jody is alive but Reggie is dead to one where Reggie is alive but Jody is dead, then bringing him another Jody from a different universe in III.
The final film is very enjoyable, and to some extent rationalizes the ambiguity from the first. I was left satisfied with it.
In German this is called "Das Böse" - "The Evil". They kept that title for the sequels. Is the Tall Man the personification of the evil?
Allow me to submit evidence: Tallman is omnipresent, can't be killed, has an army of diverse species of monsters, resurrects the dead, owns a hot, red dimension.
Should I go on?
sounds evil.
@@p.d.l7023 >"owns a hot, red dimension"
Oh! He's a landlord! Yeah he's definitely evil.
I think it depends on your personal interpretation and how much you feel the subsequent sequels mean anything to the lore of the Tall Man. I say that because, iirc, there's one sequel (want to say 3?) where they talk about how he's the manifestation of nightmares... which raises a more questions than it answers, but kind of makes sense in a way? I feel like him being a representation of nightmare itself is pretty feasible. It just needs a better explanation.
I feel like I have to rewatch all of them over again because I barely remember anything.
@@Rotsuoy Nightmares, you say...
Freddy vs Tall Man when?
Phantasm has been my favorite horror series since the early 90s. Thanks for hitting these, Scaredy Matt!
"Phantasm will be covered over the next five weeks" Dope. Just gave me the perfect excuse to finally get around to watching part 5
Some advice: Go in with low expectations, that way you will be able to enjoy it. It's not bad, and some parts are actually good, but it should have been so much better. He knew it would be the last one, had tons of years to work on the story, yet it was still disappointing.
I'm a little disappointed every comment isn't just "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY!!!"
My dad used to call me "BOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY!!!" all the time and when I was old enough to watch this movie we watched it together, presumably because he was tired of me not getting the reference. As soon as the next day my brain had wiped the memory of nearly all the film from my brain under the presumption that it was just a very strange dream.
YOU LEAVE A GOOD COMMENT, BOY!
If you enjoyed Phantasm you should check out one of the directors other films called John Dies at the End its horrific funny and inventive ok shameless plug for Bubba Ho Tep as well
I liked Bubba Ho-Tep, but John Dies at the End kinda bored me. The book was ok though.
@@ScaredyCatsTV Phantasm makes me think of the 1985 movie House, which was also dream-like and nonsensical. If you like one you'll probably like the other.
@@furiousapplesack Except that House had a pretty clear and very specific theme dealing with grief and PTSD. So a sort of Phantasm meets Jacob's Ladder.
Everyone on earth needs to watch Bubba Ho Tep, because my attempts to explain why people should watch it have not worked very well.
@@ScaredyCatsTV God, I do not like book-JDatE's author tho. Man's a centrist weenie.
I really do love Phantasm. It has this special place in my heart so I am looking forward to you talking more about this strange, goofy film series. I also just realized you might talk about Candyman later when the sequel is close to release and that will be frickin' wicked. I'm so glad that you started this channel and thank you for the work you put into all of your videos.
Oh man--I was just thinking about this movie recently! My dad had the first three movies on VHS when I was a kid and I watched them on a dinky little portable tv/vcr in my room. It all seems like a fever dream when I try to remember it, though. I found this channel at the right time--can't wait for the rest!
I just spilled soup all over my needlework and need something in the background while I clean up and wash and rewind all my thread. Nothing better than some Summer Phantasm for such occasions.
I keep re-watching this video. I just love the rhythm of it, with your narration and the music. It's soothing.
I showed Phantasm to my teen a couple weeks ago and was debating going on to the sequels. Now I will!
He loved it.
This might be my favorite of your vids, Mildo! I watch it all the time🤣🤣🤣
A phantasm 5part retrospective. I'm so in! I love Phantasm. Thank you Matt.
I've never seen Phatasm, but the description "a lot less goofy than it sounds on paper" reminds me of Bubba Ho-tep, which I liked a lot.
my favorite Movies of ALL TIMES!!!! all of them...best sci fi horror ever made.
I realized that I remember you talking about the “sweaty months”” last year, and that I’ve been a fan at least that long. Crazy year, right?!? I’ve learned I’m non-binary this year(tx for being an excellent role model) and the world has exploded in a scary, sad, but I believe ultimately positive direction. You’ve helped remind me of the terrible/wonderful movies of my childhood n youth, and I’m digging seeing them again from a new perspective. ❤️
YourGod IsMean Don’t get discouraged. There is more support out there than it seems! 🌈
Yay, more nb siblings. The world is strange right now but I certainly think we are moving towards good things Phoenix out of the ashes and whatnot. Good luck to you ♥️
That's really nice to read :)
No one seems to comment on the fact that in Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep", a guy takes the form of his daughter ... to get married to a guy. Lovecraft didn't do it to get tits in his story either (but he probably didn't really think it through either). It actually remains a mystery why he did it at all - showing two guys married for an enormously long time. Anyway, I love your perspective on philosophy, critical theory, culture ... and horror movies. My favourite subjects! Kind regards from Belgium.
In light of later installments, we can rationalize what happens in the first Phantasm as follows - Mike moves between dimensions at least once in this film; when he transitions from a universe where Reggie was killed to one where Reggie is alive but Jody died a year ago. Phantasm II then continues in the second universe with Mike-1 and Reggie-2, where Jody is dead. Phantasm III's Jody may be from yet another universe; he is killed by the Tall Man and converted into a sphere. In IV Mike (still, I think, universe-1 Mike?) travels back in time and kills this universe's Jebediah Morningside, but this fails to stop the Tall Man. Sphere-Jody is revealed to be a pawn of the Tall Man. In Ravager Reggie-2 (presumably) is bounced back and forth between universe-2, now largely taken over by the Tall Man, and yet another universe where he is older and suffering from dementia, but Jody is alive. Eventually he is rescued by what we assume is Mike-1 in universe-2, while dying in universe-3.
I feel like this series was purposefully designed so that we would never know for sure just what the hell we watched and would be unable to properly explain it to others.
@@FullMoonOctober Here's a mind screw that I would've loved to see: One of the ideas Don Coscarelli had for the fifth movie was to have both actors who have played Mike in it, playing different versions of the character at the same time.
This channel is what got me into horror and I always look forward to every new video, keep it up :)
Oh wow I played Turok! It was probably the late 90s or early 2000s? A first person shooter where you fight dinosaurs for some reason. I remember the cerebral bore! Thanks for the blast from the past!
Don Coscarelli feeds on your frustrated confusion. It is delicious.
Oh boy am I excited for the next five weeks. Hope you have a great summer. Stay safe 🤘 and excellent shirt.
The best part of the entire series is that they never hide the cameras in the reflection of the spheres.
I've wanted to see this movie for years actually, so awesome that you took on this franchise.
And I believe Turok 2 deserves the name as much as Phantasm, I have played that game despite it being way before my time and I loved it. It's actually a fantastically fun shooter with super cool weapons.
So excited for this, I loved this series as a kid so much! This then the serfs video with Beau. Happy pride too.
I love this series and this channel. So I guess that means I have to love this summer too.
I'm so happy you're covering this series. It's one of my faves. I've been trying to get my roomies to watch em with me, so this is great.
Thank you. I love this movie and needed a pick me up today.
Thanks for your brilliant synopsis. You've explained some things I was confused about. Can't wait to see this film again then the sequels! ☮️🇬🇧
Wow, you talked about the lady/sex/murder thing kind of. This has been a curiosity of mine for quite some time. The Tall Man's motivation is his job. Harvesting corpses for an interdimensional slave trade. He has no need for a few murdered teens, given the elaborate funeral home/cemetery grift, and a missing person case in a small town could jeopardize the entire operation. He actually has motivation to not do these things, but like other sex killers, The Tall Man is impulsive. These late night "trysts" are the only time we see The Tall Man outside of work. . . on his free time. . . engaging in his hobby. There's an entire rabbit hole here, and I'm glad I'm not the only one to question it's implications.
I swear I have seen this movie. It feels so familiar but I have no actual memories of having watched it.
All a dream???
Thanks Scaredy.
Came here from thought slime and love it. Thanks :)
An amazing review of a unique and riveting film.
Thanks for all your amazing work, both here and in that cursed eyeball zone.
dickens rolls in his grave for not having invented the name "angus scrimm."
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Now I'm imagining how awesome the Phantasm series would be if the Tall Man talked like Samuel Weller from Pickwick Papers.
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heh! weller's like a character out of krazy kat. i suspect herriman may have been cribbing a bit.
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Hey man. Just found your channel and watching you're content makes me happy. Keep putting good things into the world, dude.
Then this happens [Ad plays, then video resumes with zombie man getting bored] Same energy.
This is one of my all time favorite franchises. Love seeing your take on it.
Instant like to feed the algorithm monster but also for the anticipation of five weeks of Phantasm-gasm! Hoorah!
Holy cow I remember seeing this movie back when movies were on tv and you had no idea what you were watching and I was too young to care anyway but now I know what movie it was and there's an entire series of it??
5:00 Huh, didn't know I was secretely watching Velvet Buzzsaw.
Been anxiously waiting for you to talk about Phantasm ever since I found this channel. It's not my favorite horror franchise of all time, not even close. I have many criticisms of every movie in the series actually. Regardless, I have to recommend that people watch it if only for the soundtrack. You said it best, the soundtrack is "Delicious." To me, the theme song to this movie is the best horror movie theme song of all time. Not Halloween, not The Exorcist, not Psycho, and not Jaws but PHANTASM.
Turn that sphere upside down so the knifey bits are stabbing the maxillary sinuses and this is the perfect representation of the headache I’ve had all day! And now that it’s gone I must temp fate and look at a phone screen cause it’s summer, so it’s phantasm time.
I love the bright look to contrast the spoooopiness
Just got around to watching Phantasm; and it really was great!
One of my favourite things is the special edition boxset of all the Phantasm DVDs i bought years ago where the case is a sphere. I'd rescue that from a fire.
My favorite horror franchise. I don’t think there’s a bad Phantasm film (the second one was a little weaker comparatively, but still a fun ride). I’m still amazed at how they managed to maintain a continuity over several decades.
I've always wanted to see this but never seem to be able to. I even remember buying the VHS and it disappeared from my possession.
"Summer Funtasm" is the main reason you decided to do these movies now, am I right?
Yeeeeees! I've been hoping you would cover phantasm since the channel started.
Wow cops took Jody's gun advice straight to heart
I had to pause because "...happy pride month everybody" got me REAL good. that was a laugh I really needed today
Joe Bob Briggs played 4 of these in a marathon for his Christmas special a couple years ago. And I created a fake trailer for a Phantasm Christmas Special. So, pretty sure this is a Christmas movie.
Great channel. Please watch and review criminally overlooked Irish Horror Comedy Grabbers. Cheers
Took me 3 vids to finally realise that I'm also watching your other channel and that's why your voice is so god damn familiar. Drove me crazy!
OH MY GOD, SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT PHANTASM
I just watched this last night. Someone is watching me.
it’s the eyeballs
Your shirt is very festive :)
I had just watched this. Wild movie and fun.
Love your shirt, SlimeBoss.
Also, the fucking spheres from Phantasm fucked me UP when I saw this movie at too young an age.
Criminal not to mention the fashion on display in Phantasm. Those SUITS
You missed a PERFECTLY good pun opportunity with "sunSCREAM!"
Ok, he's not the Cryptkeeper now...
@@robrobinson6338 Not with that attitude.
Tall Man got that Vince McMahon walk
I got as far as the "dream logic but on purpose" part and went to go watch it myself and now I'm back to finish this video. oh boy I was not prepared for the "fear is the (mind) killer" scene from Dune to be in it
We always called it The Juicer.
This looks great. This channel is great for horror recommendation.
The Tall Man probably did an evil Time Magic Spell in the mine shaft that altered the timeline to make his ultimate nemesis, jodie, dissapear.
yessss i recently binged all these
I remember when this used to be on Saturday afternoon TV all the time, before every channel had to be network affiliated. On the first viewing, I really thought the blood was yellow because, well Saturday afternoon TV. They used to either blur, or do redubs for the TV version, so we figured they changed the blood for TV. It wasn't until I saw it on video that I got the yellow blood was intentional.
Looking forward to these videos!
"You play a good game boy"
so good my friend
Big Ups on the Turok 2 explanation, debatable who deserves it more though ;)
That ending is fucking wild.... Super excited for a new series based one
As a strange aside, 'Fantasm' is the name of a 1976 Australian softcore movie. I knew of Fantasm before the American horror Phantasm, so whenever I see the latter, I always think of the former.
The director of Fantasm went on to direct Patrick, a 1978 horror/slasher/mind power movie that might be suitable for your channel to review.
Honestly 2020 feels like a Phantasm movie