Phil Sawyer's Homemade Figures

Longtime fan and Reggie look-a-like Phil Sawyer recently sent in the following images of his homemade Phantasm figures... and they're terrific! He's outfitted his Tall Man with a silver sphere and armed the Regman with his signature weapon, the four-barrel shotgun. (Anybody else notice Ash sneaking up on the Tall Man in that one pic?) Phil made these figures with the help of his son. Way to go, fellas!



Phil also informs me that his fan film project, Phantasm 4.1 is nearing completion. Click the title for a sneak peak at the short, which features Phil as the Reggie (complete with four-barrel and Cuda) as well as a ghastly version of the Tall Man!

PHANTASM BEYOND GAME - A Must See!

Phantasm Community user BLADEGHOST (game designer John Ivan) has recently completed an extensive multi-level mod for Doom 3 called PHANTASM BEYOND. By utilizing characters, situations and locations from the Phantasm films, Bladeghost has allowed players to enter into their favorite Phantasm scenes and battle all manner of undead enemy (including dwarves, spheres, finger bugs and the Tall Man himself!). As evidenced in the thirty-plus photos included in this post, Bladeghost has magnificently captured both the likeness and atmosphere of locales such as Perigord Mausoleum, the Pearson home and good old Morningside itself. He's also hidden a handful of surprises in the game, some of which are hiding in the photos below.

The mod can be downloaded for free by anyone and can be played on both PC's and MAC's so long as you have a copy of DOOM 3 with the most recent patch installed. It's all quite easy to setup, but if you need help, feel free to turn to this thread on the Phantasm Community forum for help. Continue reading to see more than thirty screen captures from the game and several video previews.

Elias Disney was a Tall Man?

Fans of the Scrimm, journey back with me three decades to the year that gave us President Reagan and MTV. It's here in 1981 that we'll find one of the Tall Man performer's more rare and elusive appearances as Elias Disney in Walt Disney: One Man's Dream (credited here under real name Lawrence Guy). Though the garish television special featured song and dance by Mac Davis, Dick Van Dyke and Marie Osmond, it featured no such gaiety for Angus' role as stern father to dreamers Walt and Roy. Our look back at this special comes to us courtesy of one of the very first Phantasm Archivists, Kristen Deem. Continue reading for the skinny and to see video excerpts of his performance.

Gallery: Texas Frightmare Convention

The monstrously big Texas Frightmare Weekend played out this past weekend in Dallas, Texas. Among the show's many highlights were Phantasm guests Angus Scrimm, Michael Baldwin, Bob Ivy and Don Coscarelli. Phantasm Archives friend and native Texan Fred Russell was on hand for the event and has shared with us these fantastic photos of the cast, a fine Hemi-Cuda and several unique hearses that showed up (click any image to enlarge it). Continue reading to view his photos.

Assorted News

There's been a hint of news recently from an interview Reggie Bannister did with Big Daddy's Horror Reviews. Not content enough to simply ask about Phantasm V, Big Daddy pressed the actor about the super-hush Secret Phantasm Project, which Reggie says was ultimately nothing more than the filmmakers pre-visualizing, camera tests and such. Considering the project began filming back in 2008, it's now a real possibility that nothing will ever come of it.

We’ve talked about (a new Phantasm), and we’ve gone out and screwed around with cameras for it. We’ve asked ourselves “How would we do this if we were to do this." - Reggie Bannister

You can read the full interview here.

Also worth mentioning is a new boxset from Universal Studios that includes Phantasm II along with The Funhouse, The Serpent and the Rainbow and Sssssss. While Amazon is selling it for an economical $7.49, my local Wal-Mart had it for a mere $5.