Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead [Region 2]
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In Theaters : 06 May, 1994 |
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Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead [Region 2] description
In the original Phantasm, The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), a villainous mortuary employee, breeds dwarves inside tombs to be "workers" in another realm. Don Coscarelli's film was enticingly cryptic, but Phantasm III is a confused mess. Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) and his big brother, Jody (Bill Thornbury), are recently orphaned and become grossly entangled in the supernatural crime scene occurring at the cemetery, as The Tall Man seeks to kill everyone in town. The boys recruit Jody's buddy, Reggie (Reggie Bannister), an ice cream man, to help squelch The Tall Man, to no avail. In Phantasm III, the same boys, all grown up, are still battling The Tall Man, though his dwarves have multiplied and have wiped out entire cities across Idaho. Zombies prevail, and the viewer never really finds out The Tall Man's purpose, or why he wants to claim Mike. Phantasm's inimitable mystery and style, with the chrome orb that flies towards victim's heads with rotating blades, the finger in a box that bleeds yellow goo, or the tuning fork gate to the dwarf netherworld, is replaced in Phantasm III by schlock gore, in which dwarves are shot with machine guns and felled like trees. Mystery is spoiled by too much dialogue spoken by the before nearly-mute Tall Man, and by the dwarves who've acquired silly monster faces under hoods that previously hid their identity. The film's greatest asset is its wondrously eerie title theme song by Fred Myrow and Malcolm Seagrave, reiterated from the original horror masterpiece. --Trinie Dalton |
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Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead [Region 2] Customer Reviews
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Not my favorite from the Phantasm series but still good.
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| Phantasm 3 was just O.K. compared to the rest of the series I thought it was the weakest film, the storyline becomes rather silly especially towards the second half but it was still fun to watch and enjoyably to a certain level. The good thing about this film was that the original cast returns and that also includes the actor who played Jody who was Mike's older brother but he obviously returns as a ghost who warns Mike about The Tall Man, the original actor Micheal Baldwin returns as Mike who after the last incident from the previous film is left lying in a hospital bed he is soon visited by Jody who was turned into one of The Tall Man's silver spheres and can switch back into physical form anytime he wishes. He is also visited by a demonic nurse in what has got to be the best scene in the entire film, the demonic nurse attempts to kill Mike but he is soon saved by Reggie when he bursts into the hospital room but it seems like they could not escape from the clutches of The Tall Man and so he kidnaps Mike. Reggie must now go after The Tall Man and rescue Mike he goes along on a trip with a young ten year old boy named Tim who is very handy with weapons and a black biker chick named Rocky. It was really nice seeing Michael Baldwin return for his role as Mike since James Le Gros didn't do much justice to the character in part 2, the twist ending this time didn't work and wasn't as interesting as the previous two films this however is resolved in part 4 and it seems like those evil dwarfs were missing and instead were introduced to these idiotic thieves who were kind of annoying but they did have some interesting death scenes as demons, one of them has his head twisted off real quick by those silver spheres which was pretty cool. The film reminded me of Sam Raimi's Army Of Darkness cause some scenes were quite humorous, overall I would have to say that it was average I would give it 3 and a half stars with some decent action scenes and gore but the ending almost ruined it and it could've been better. |
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