Hey kids this looks like a
potentially good sequel. Grab a head lamp and shovel and let’s start digging. This is Phantasm 2.
My God look at the size of the spoiler!
Director Don Coscarelli (Phantasm
I through IV, Beastmaster, Bubba Ho-tep, and Incident on and Off a Mountain
Road) attempts to capture the spirit of its predecessor back in 1979
with a new round of terror. With A.
Michael Baldwin (Mike from the first movie) off on a retreat to learn a
musical instrument and devoting his time to such, (James Degros of Drugstore Cowboy,
Point Break, Enemy of the State and Vantage Point) tackles the role of
Mike as a teen after the death of his brother and being assaulted yet again by
the mysterious and devious Tall Man (Angus Scrimm of Phantasm I through IV,
Subspecies: The Awakening and I Sell the Dead) With his undead
dwarven minions at his command, the Tall Man seeks to capture young Mike with
Reggie (Reggie Bannister of Phantasm I through IV, Bubba Ho-tep, Wishmaster and
Cemetery Gates) standing in his way.
With a narrow escape from
the evil that conquered their town, Mike is institutionalized for 6 years for
what the state felt was clearly a child's overactive imagination as a defense
mechanism helping the grieving process to handle the death of his
brother Jody. Reunited with Reggie once more they make their way to Reggie's
family home only for Mike to receive a psychic image of the house being
destroyed moments before the house is engulfed in flames.
The two men scarred and bereaved from their traumatic experiences, they vow to hunt down and eliminate the Tall Man and stop his fiendish abominations. Mike further receives more psychic effects as he has a rapport with a girl he has never met. Her small town is cut off from any help as graves become empty, and the dead are used as tools of the Tall Man. Liz (Paula Irvine of Phantasm III, Santa Barbara and Doin’ Time on Planet Earth) contacts Mike through a psychic link enabling our heroes to journey to her rescue. Allied with the Tall Man are his latest assistants in evil practices simply known as the Grave Diggers. With little encouragement on Mike’s behalf, Reggie gases up the ‘Cuda and the two hit the road in search of the Tall Man and try to think of a way to end his reign over the dead and God only knows his true purpose for his sinister deed.
The two men scarred and bereaved from their traumatic experiences, they vow to hunt down and eliminate the Tall Man and stop his fiendish abominations. Mike further receives more psychic effects as he has a rapport with a girl he has never met. Her small town is cut off from any help as graves become empty, and the dead are used as tools of the Tall Man. Liz (Paula Irvine of Phantasm III, Santa Barbara and Doin’ Time on Planet Earth) contacts Mike through a psychic link enabling our heroes to journey to her rescue. Allied with the Tall Man are his latest assistants in evil practices simply known as the Grave Diggers. With little encouragement on Mike’s behalf, Reggie gases up the ‘Cuda and the two hit the road in search of the Tall Man and try to think of a way to end his reign over the dead and God only knows his true purpose for his sinister deed.
While Don Coscarelli merely hints that the Tall Man is from either a Hell dimension or perhaps another universe all together is never truly known. In a recent interview he exclaimed it was more fun to let people speculate and give him ideas. Between some unique steady cam as well as track, the $3 million budget allows for improvements of the killer spheres previously constructed by Will Green from his prop effect department Turntable Rentals and Sales. While this was the largest budget for all for four movies, it did offer additional killer dwarf dispatching weapons, such as a homemade flamethrower and the infamous quad-barrel shotgun which the fans lovingly referred as the Dwarf Cutter.
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