Phantasm Both beautifully engrossing yet thoroughly frustrating, surrealistically amazing yet at times incomprehensible, Coscarelli’s horror milestone is the purest example of filmmaking of one man’s unique vision, leaving it up to each individual viewer to figure out what’s trying to be said. Though it seems at times like a parable of not wanting to let […]
Phantasm II Whereas the original Phantasm excelled in establishing a mood and atmosphere unique to the genre, its 1988 sequel takes the Evil Dead 2 route, mixing the genuine scares with a sense of fun and some humor. It is also the installment where Reggie Bannister came into his own, solidifying himself (second only to […]
Phantasm 3: Lord Of The Dead The origins of the Phantasm Horror Franchise are really quite remarkable as it basically involved a bunch of working class friends in the rural Northern California region who all knew each other and hung out together so one day they all decided to make a low budget horror movie. […]
Phantasm 4: Oblivion The Phantasm Franchise is one of the most revered in the history of horror cinema, one which spouts as its literal mantra not to believe everything that you (the viewer) sees. It also gave rise to one of the best (and most underrated) horror villains as well as featuring one of the […]
Phantasm 5: Ravager And so comes the end of the long road that constitutes the Phantasm Franchise in all of its freaky, undying glory. With filming having begun in 2008 on the original pretense of being a Reggie based web series, then having more and more scenes shot as the script was coming together, the […]
Phantom Of The Opera ’89 Coming off his incredible success playing Freddy Krueger in The Nightmare On Elm Street films, it was natural for Robert Englund to want to branch out into playing other roles with the most obvious choices of course being roles in other horror films. In 1989, Englund got what seemed like […]
Phantom Of The Opera 2004 Has there EVER been a more often filmed story than this one? Originally based on Gaston LeRoux’s 1910 novel which in itself was a fictional “explanation” of a rumored “ghost” whom in real life was said to have haunted the Paris Opera House in the late 1800s and was even […]
Phantom Of The Opera 1925 Perhaps the rarest of all talents in the history of Hollywood was none other than Lon Chaney, a guy who not only was widely considered THE greatest actor of the silent era in terms of the emotional pantomime which is required of the silent acting artform (in many minds better […]
Philadelphia Experiment A fine example of 80s sci-fi cheese, the true fascination about this film is the story behind it: Conspiracy theorists far and wide have claimed that an actual experiment of this nature was conducted in 1943 where the U.S. Navy attempted to have a battleship be rendered invisible so as to sneak up […]