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Phantasm, Italian Lobby Card (Fotobusta), 1979
#submission#Phantasm#Don Coscarelli#Angus Scrimm#Lynn Eastman-Rossi#Lobby Cards#Lobby Card#Fotobusta#Fotobuste
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Phantasm (1979) Movie Review
Phantasm – ABC Film Challenge – Horror – P – Phantasm – Movie Review Director: Don Coscarelli Writer: Don Coscarelli (Screenplay) Cast A Michael Baldwin (Flay) Bill Thornbury (The Lost Empire) Reggie Bannister (Bonejangles) Kathy Lester Lynn Eastman-Rossi (Project X) Plot: A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a…
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Night of the Demon (1980)
"Now, Bigfoot's not playing games anymore. Maybe next time he won't be happy just to scare us."
#night of the demon#blood tw#horror imagery tw#video nasty#james c. wasson#mike williams#jim l. ball#michael cutt#jody lazarus#bob collins#melanie graham#shannon cooper#paul kelleher#william f. nugent#lynn eastman rossi#eugene dow#don hurst#terry wilson#jennifer west#joy allen#really quite dreadful but bizarrely compelling. shot in 79‚ shown at a few festivals in 80 and then spliced full of gory inserts without#the director's knowledge and released on video‚ where it promptly became a fabled nasty. it starts as a surprising slowburn so that i#wondered if it deserved its reputation‚ but by the time a random biker got his dick torn off I'd pretty much settled on 'yeah ok of course#this got banned'. poor performances and some sketchy fx aren't helped by the fact that the director was forced to adopt a single take#policy‚ and the post production tinkering didn't help the pacing. it's very difficult to imagine exactly what this film was before those#splatter inserts. an hour and change of six people wandering around the countryside i guess. also the film commits the cardinal sin of#setting everything as flashback�� immediately revealing who will live and die (a weirdly common trope in indie slashers‚ and p much always a#mistake). tasteless and trashy and honestly fairly bad but it's an interesting footnote in horror history and the bts scenes tales make for#fascinating reading. director and producer wanted Tab Hunter for the lead (he wisely turned it down) and oh how I'd love to see that film#at least it's another nasty i can knock off the to watch list
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