
Overview:
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.Status: | Released (1979-03-28) |
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Awards: | 2 wins & 2 nominations |
BoxOffice: | $11,988,469 |
Screen: | Don Coscarelli |
Productions: | New Breed Productions |
Production Countries: | United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | English |

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Casts
- 79584: Angus Scrimm - The Tall Man
- 58240: A. Michael Baldwin - Michael 'Mike' Pearson
- 58241: Bill Thornbury - Jody Pearson
- 97939: Reggie Bannister - Reggie
- 58243: Kathy Lester - Lady in Lavender
- 58244: Terrie Kalbus - Fortuneteller's Granddaughter
- 1206256: Kenneth V. Jones - Caretaker
Crews
- 58245: Don Coscarelli - Director - Directing
- 58248: Paul Pepperman - Producer - Production
- 58245: Don Coscarelli - Editor - Editing
- 58252: Roberto A. Quezada - Gaffer - Lighting
- 983156: Kate Coscarelli - Production Design - Art
- 1023502: Dac Coscarelli - Producer - Production
- 58249: Fred Myrow - Original Music Composer - Sound
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Reviews
Cat Ellington
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There are tall men, and then there's the "Tall Man". I actually saw the trailer, or preview, if you like, for Phantasm while awaiting the start of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in December of 1978. And I remember the trailer quite well, considering that the upcoming film looked scar ....
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PHANTASM is an uneven work, too fantastic to be genuinely scary but ferociously unique and fascinating on numerous levels. I think at the forefront there was a desire here to create a warped and entirely original Universe where nothing is as it seems and anything can - and probabl ....
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