"You play a good game boy, but the game is finished, now you die."
PHANTASM (1979)
Directed by Don Coscarelli
A personal favourite of mine, this wacky low budget horror/sci-fi mash up is one of the the most unusual films you'll ever see. A young boy investigates creepy goings on at the local funeral parlour and discovers...well, that would be telling.
Wildly inconsistent in tone, with amateurish acting and dialogue, "Phantasm" is more weird than scary, but it's always a lot of fun. How can you not love a film where a severed finger in a box turns, for no discernible reason, into a monstrous fly? Angus Scrimm as "The Tall Man" is an unforgettable mixture of creepy and campy and is clearly having the time of his life.
So enjoy, but if you see a flying silver ball...duck!
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