On the heels of Rue Morgue's Phantasm companion announcement earlier this month comes word from Italy that publisher Weird Books have debuted their own Phantasm tome. Titled Phantasm: l’Universo di Tall Man, the book is authored by Luigi Boccia, Lorenzo Ricciardi, Giada Cecchinelli, Nicola Lombardi, Fabio Giovannini and Dustin McNeill (yes, yours truly!). My contribution is a small piece in tribute to the power and legacy of Angus Scrimm's performance as the Tall Man ("Tribute to a Tall Man.")
Phantasm: l’Universo di Tall Man spans 162 pages and is entirely in Italian. The book features new interviews with Don Coscarelli, David Hartman and Reggie & Gigi Bannister. It is available for purchase now from the publisher's website.
For those of you who speak Italian, the official description reads: "L’unico libro in Italia che racconta la saga di Phantasm. Un’analisi lucida degli incubi di Don Coscarelli nella società in subbuglio degli anni Settanta: la nascita del Tall Man e del suo inferno privato, l’influenza della Nuova Hollywood e il cinema degli zombie, l’universo distopico e il primo supervillain del grande schermo.
Tra morte e stregoneria, profanazione dei simboli e terrore delle invasioni aliene, l’esperimento registico di Coscarelli reinventa la concezione di “genere”, portando il germe di una nuova scienza che precederà di trentacinque anni gli sforzi cinematografici dell’avveniristico Interstellar."
COMES A NEW BOOK ABOUT A CERTAIN GOOD GUY...
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