Phantasm - Quadrilogy boxset (1979-1998)

The Phantasm series, for those that don’t know, generally follows the exploits of two brothers, Mike and Jody, and their good friend Reggie in their fight against a mysterious tall undertaker, known to them as The Tall Man. The Tall Man is reanimating the dead bodies he’s receiving and doing all kinds of other crazy stuff to them. Dreams and reality blur, time and space are traveled, and lots of things die.

Made over a period of almost a quarter of a century, one of the coolest things about the series is how, apart from the notable exception of Mike in Phantasm II, the same actors have returned to their roles time and again. Each film has differing strengths and weaknesses, but generally the films have held up well. The original is the most dated but still my favourite of the series by far. Phantasm II is the most straightforward and actiony, Phantasm III the most comic, and Phantasm OblIVion the most surreal.

It’s low budget, bloody fun about a small cluster of endearing characters fighting an unstoppable evil, and while the special effects in the first are looking more and more hokey with time (in fact they were even being joked about while Phantasm II was being made as you’ll see in Nicotero’s spot on the extras DVD), it’s great to see the film looking and sounding as good as it does here, in anamorphic widescreen for the first time.

Just a note on that; it was always Coscarelli’s intention that the first film be shown in widescreen. However, when he was shooting, he made sure that areas above and below what was shot remained free of any boom mics or other imperfections, so that when shown on TV it could be shown unmated. That means that the Region 2 4:3 release of Phantasm loses nothing at the sides when compared to the letterboxed Region 1 MGM disc. If you’re used to the 4:3 version you might feel like you’re losing picture in this version, but bear in mind this is how Don always wanted the film to be presented.

The first and second films both look and sound better than I ever thought they would, and these are the transfers I’ll be watching time and time again without question. Compared to the DVDs I already had, it’s like night and day. Previous versions of II and III were merely in stereo but now offer full 5.1 surround sound, and I’m a sucker for DTS every time. The spheres are exactly the sort of thing that surround sound was made for, and they don’t disappoint as they whiz around the sound field and gnaw their way through flesh.

Phantasm II and especially III always felt neutered with their cut down head drilling scenes, so it’s unfortunate that the scene in the second is still the trimmed version. Fortunately, and rather deliciously, the same isn’t true of Phantasm III, which has gone from no blood in its drilling scene to the full-on geyser you’d expect. It’s now my favourite drilling scene, in fact.

Another scene featuring an axe has always been horribly edited out of III in a very obvious and jarring way, and having it back doesn’t just give you some gore to enjoy, but gives you a better paced and edited scene.

OblIVion, being the newest in the series, had already been put out with a fairly solid transfer, so it’s the least noticeably improved, but it’s certainly nice having that DTS track and seeing the first two films look just as pristine. The footage from the original shoot of Phantasm that they reincorporated back into OblIVion look closer in quality than I remember them looking before.

Jon Condit , DVD Central

Phantasm is a surprisingly artful and imaginative horror film, an impressive film for 23-year-old director Don Coscarelli who worked with a miniscule budget to create a small masterpiece. When Mike (Michael Baldwin) spies some sinister Jawa-like creatures stealing corpses from the local cemetery, he and his older brother Jody (Bill Thornbury) explore the mausoleum, where they find that the mortician (Angus Scrimm), a towering, emaciated figure with superhuman strength, has somehow bridged the gap between Earth and the afterworld and needs fresh corpses. Among the tools of his trade is a flying Swiss army pinball that bores into the skulls of its hapless victims then extracts their brains. Their allies die off one by one, until only the brothers are left to defend humankind against the nefarious "Tall Man" and his army of shrouded dwarves. While the film does contain a fair amount of graphic violence, the gore is never gratuitous and, relative to other movies of its day, is used rather sparingly. The effects are fantastic as is the highly stylized direction; the result is a memorable chiller with more than its share of genuine shocks.

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The "Tall Man" and his strange little Killer Sphere return for a second round in this sequel to the 1979 cult favorite. Mike Pearson (James LeGros) is still plagued by memories of the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), an evil mortician who has risen from the grave and bleeds embalming fluid – and tried to kill him as a boy. Mike has been a patient in a mental institution for the last decade, insisting that the Tall Man is real; he still appears in his dreams ten years after their first encounter. When Mike changes his tune and says that the undead undertaker was merely a hallucination, he is finally released. However, Mike and his best friend, Reggie (Reggie Bannister), are actually out to find the Tall Man and put an end to his habits of grave-robbing and draining people's bodies with his flying brain-juicer. As they search for the Tall Man, Mike encounters Liz (Paula Irvine), a woman who has also appeared in his dreams, and she claims that she too has been pursued by the Tall Man.

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The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends and enemies. They also must contend with the resurrected dead plus a growing number of the infamous and deadly silver spheres which aid the Tall Man as he sets his sights on indoctrinating Mike and finishing the fight begun so many years ago.

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The concluding installment of the popular horror series brings back the principal heroes Reggie, Mike, and Jody (Reggie Bannister, Michael Baldwin, and Bill Thornbury) for their final battle against the evil Tall Man (Angus Scrimm). Mike is trying to escape the Tall Man's designs on turning him into a servant of the interdimensional body thieves, while Reggie is trying not to get involved, despite Jody's pleas for help. When a demonic cop with a skinned man in his trunk pulls Reggie over along a dark highway, and spits Reggie's mouth full of yellow slime when shot, it becomes clear that he will have to play too. After crashing his hearse in Death Valley, Mike dreams about the days of the Civil War, where he meets Jebediah Morningside (Scrimm), the Tall Man's pleasant former self. By the time he returns to the earthly plane, the dimensional forks introduced in previous installments have multiplied into over a dozen. While Reggie is occupied by a pretty undead blonde who ends up having two of the Tall Man's silver Death Balls for breasts, Jody turns out to not be quite dead either, being able to change his own body into the Death Balls at will. As the forks continue to multiply, Mike constructs his own Death Ball and skips through various dimensions with Jody looking for the Tall Man. Eventually, the brothers slip into the past to the night when Morningside turned evil in an attempt to stop the horror before it could begin. Needless to say, everything comes back to the cemetery for the chilling final battle, but it doesn't stay there for long.

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