http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/phantasm/ movie review and news blog Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/phantasm/comment-page-1/#comment-1115 Hellraiser - Movie Reviews Blog Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:59:42 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/phantasm/#comment-1115 [...] In many of my reviews I mention “essential” horror films (Evil Dead, Phantasm, Creepshow, etc) and I have to say, once again, that this is an essential horror film. The premise is extremely fresh and inspired, the cast is exquisite, the gore is tremendous, the music is haunting, the characters are memorable and the special effects are impressive. Writer and Director Clive Barker really crafted a winner, here. [...] [...] In many of my reviews I mention “essential” horror films (Evil Dead, Phantasm, Creepshow, etc) and I have to say, once again, that this is an essential horror film. The premise is extremely fresh and inspired, the cast is exquisite, the gore is tremendous, the music is haunting, the characters are memorable and the special effects are impressive. Writer and Director Clive Barker really crafted a winner, here. [...]

]]> http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/phantasm/comment-page-1/#comment-1111 Phantasm II - Movie Reviews Blog Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:50:52 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/phantasm/#comment-1111 [...] Phantasm II picks up 7 years after the end of the first movie. Mike has been spending his days locked away in the Morningside Psychiatric Clinic, with the authorities having been convinced that his tale of the events of the first film were nothing but a psychotic delusion. While incarcerated, Mike has shared a psychic bond with a girl named Liz, whose town has slowly been eaten away by the Tallman and his appetite for the dead. Mike eventually convinces the doctors he’s “sane” and leaves the clinic to find the only other survivor of the first film, Reggie. Reggie has no memories of what happened with the Tallman, at least until his house gets blown up with his family inside. Thoroughly convinced, Mike and Reggie hit the road to track down the Tallman and stop him before he can kill-off any more towns. Before they do, however, they gear-up at a local hardware store; stock-piling chainsaws, power-drills and fashioning homemade flame-throwers and, yes, the infamous quadruple-barrel shotgun. Eventually, they make their way to Perigold Cemetery where they hunt down the ever-present, yet strangely absent Tallman. [...] [...] Phantasm II picks up 7 years after the end of the first movie. Mike has been spending his days locked away in the Morningside Psychiatric Clinic, with the authorities having been convinced that his tale of the events of the first film were nothing but a psychotic delusion. While incarcerated, Mike has shared a psychic bond with a girl named Liz, whose town has slowly been eaten away by the Tallman and his appetite for the dead. Mike eventually convinces the doctors he’s “sane” and leaves the clinic to find the only other survivor of the first film, Reggie. Reggie has no memories of what happened with the Tallman, at least until his house gets blown up with his family inside. Thoroughly convinced, Mike and Reggie hit the road to track down the Tallman and stop him before he can kill-off any more towns. Before they do, however, they gear-up at a local hardware store; stock-piling chainsaws, power-drills and fashioning homemade flame-throwers and, yes, the infamous quadruple-barrel shotgun. Eventually, they make their way to Perigold Cemetery where they hunt down the ever-present, yet strangely absent Tallman. [...]

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