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A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
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100
Slant Magazine
What makes Phantasm special is the way it captures a boy's life in 1978. [Remastered]
80
Over the course of three wild sequels, Coscarelli expanded his bizarre universe in a variety of imaginative and deliriously entertaining ways – but the original set the standard. [Remastered]
80
It deliberately makes no sense, but it has more bizarro gimmicks to the minute than any other horror picture of 1979.
80
Newsweek
Lurid, illogical and utterly off-the-wall, this funny-scary exercise in low-budget schlock is a marvelous orgy of cheap thrills, including a supernaturally sinister mortuary, a hideously wriggling severed finger, one furry flying creature, dwarfs from the Undead, and the goriest - indeed the only - blood-sucking flying steel ball in movie history. [16 April 1979, p.86]
75
A wonderfully creative, bizarre, delightfully terrifying horror film that never fails to surprise.
