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Phantasm (1979)

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WIKI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasm_(film) Phantasm is a 1979 low-budget cult-classic horror film directed, written, photographed, co-produced, and edited by Don Coscarelli. It introduced the Tall Man (who was portrayed in the film and its sequels by Angus Scrimm), a supernatural and malevolent undertaker who turns the dead into dwarf zombies to do his bidding and take over the world. The film was originally rated X by the MPAA because of the silver sphere sequence involving a man urinating on the floor after falling down dead. After Los Angeles Times film critic Charles Champlin made a telephone call in a favor to a friend on the board, the rating was changed from the (commercially non-viable) X-rating to R. Champlin's positive review was quoted on the film's promotional posters. Phantasm received mixed to positive reviews, currently holding a 64% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was rated #25 on the cable channel Bravo!'s list of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Don Coscarelli won the Special Jury Award in 1979 at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival and the film was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film in 1980.

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Phantasm (1979)

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