For horror fans that like the lower budget horror and not the overproduced crap that comes from Hollywood's main crap machine ,is both welcome and a surprise-the surprise is that there was little to no word that this film was being worked on at all.
Back for his fifth appearance as the Tall Man is Angus Scrimm that still has that creepy look many years later. This reviewer has the 4 previous films in his collection and it going to watch the first one today. Let's take a look back at the film series shall we?
After we do that I have a NEW trailer for the 5th film at the end with some info on it as well.
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Budget
$300,000 (estimated)
Gross
$11,988,469 (USA)
ESP 187,029,989 (Spain)
Admissions
1,340,102 (Spain)
Production Dates
November 17, 1977 - November 3, 1978
Mike, now released from a psychiatric hospital, continues his journey to stop the evil Tall Man from his grim work.
Budget
$3,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
$3,012,285 (USA) (July 10, 1988)
£104,592 (UK) (January 29, 1989) (138 Screens)
Gross
$5,667,120 (USA) (July 17, 1988)
$3,012,285 (USA) (July 10, 1988)
$7,282,851 (USA)
ESP 35,965,637 (Spain)
Weekend Gross
$1,433,950 (USA) (July 17, 1988)
$3,012,285 (USA) (July 10, 1988)
Mike and Reggie continue to hunt the mysterious Tall Man.
Budget
$2,500,000 (estimated)
Gross
ESP 487,339 (Spain)
Admissions
167,266 (Spain)
Filming Dates
January 7, 1993- March 11, 1993
Taking off immediately where the last one ended, in this episode Mike travels across dimensions and time fleeing from the Tall Man, at the same time he tries to find the origins of his enemy, and what really happened the night that his brother died. Meanwhile, Reggie (accompanied by a beauty he picked up on the road) battles the spheres and the undead in a quest to find Mike before the Tall Man can complete his transformation.
Budget $650.000
So the last few trailers have lacked any kind of spunk or originality but the last one was funny.
(The written word below is from Entertainment Weekly's website Dated March 27th, 2014)
EW can confirm that Phantasm: Ravager is directed by filmmaker and artist David Hartman, whose résuméincludes the TV show Transformers Prime and the Rob Zombie videos American Witch and Lords of Salem. Hartman also worked on the films Bubba Ho-Tep andJohn Dies at the End, both of which were directed byPhantasm overlord Don Coscarelli. Coscarelli himself cowrote Phantasm: Ravager with Hartman and produced it through his Silver Spheres company with executive producer Brad Baruh.
“I felt it was time to let someone else play with my train set,” said Coscarelli in a statement. “David and I go back to my film Bubba Ho-Tep. He did terrific visual effects on that, and more recently created a wild animated sequence and some amazing visual effects in my most recent film, John Dies at the End. Our aesthetics are in sync and he’s quite an experienced director in his own right.”
“Having worked with Don before, and being a huge fan of the entire Phantasmfranchise, it was a great honor to do Ravager with him,” said Hartman. “This film is a real turning point in the series. There’s real closure for the core characters that I hope fans will respond to.”
The cast of Phantasm: Ravager includes Angus Scrimm and Reggie Bannister, who have played, respectively, the Tall Man and luckless ice cream vendor Reggie in each previous film. They are joined by Michael Baldwin, who played the character Mike in each franchise entry except for Phantasm II (in which, aside from some flashback scenes, he was played by James LeGros). “We were fortunate to shoot amazing new sequences with horror icon Angus Scrimm,” said Hartman. “He has terrific scenes with Reggie and Mike that are truly powerful.” Series regulars Bill Thornbury and Kat Lester also appear in the film, whose release date has yet to be announced.
So without further ado here is the new trailer, below:
Here is something I found while searching for a tribute video I found this little gem.
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Anthony Nadeau