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What is the scariest science fiction or fantasy film of all time? Which classic horror movies stand above the rest, as the most terrifying? More »
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Phantasm is a 1978 gothic horror fantasy written and directed by Don Coscarelli. It spawned three more sequels, all of them about evil dwarf minions and flying silver balls that love exsanguination. More »
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We want our horror cheap, dirty and with lots of blood. So we rounded up all the best places to get your horror fix for free for the Halloweenie season while you may be jonesing for a little carnage. You want some free MST3K, you got it; John Carpenter's The Thing, wait no more; Phantasm, go for it. Plus much more! More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5071530&view=rss&microfeed=true Phantasm is a classic horror/scifi B-movie from the late 1970s whose surreal grossout scenes influenced a whole generation of moviemakers. In this clip, you can see why Phantasm is much more than just a standard schlocker, and it all has to do with visuals. We begin with possibly the most famous scene in the film, where director Don Coscarelli recreated a nightmare he'd had with about an alien death sphere which drills into your head. Fluids fly everywhere, and note that the death ends with a sickly puddle of urine spreading out from the dead body. This is followed by our young protagonist's first face-to-face meeting with the scary Tall Man, an alien masquerading as an undertaker. Note how long and creepily beautiful the shot is, with the eerie mausoleum framing the two characters as they advance towards each other in strange symmetry. You'd never have such a long, mood-building scene in a horror/scifi actioner today. This clip also shows Phantasm obeying the cardinal rule of B-movies, which is that you either have twenty insanely freakish, high-speed things happening on screen at once, or you have nothing going on at all. The staccato structure of the B-movie is what makes it both bad and sublime. Here, at least, the stillness after the freakshow is packed with dreamy details that reward the eye. More »
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