FIRST FULL CLIP from Phantasm Ravager!

Dread Central have debuted the first clip from Phantasm Ravager on their YouTube channel. In it, a battle-worn Reggie comes across Daniel Schweiger (of both Bubba Ho-Tep and John Dies at the End) driving an awfully familiar muscle car. The last lasts just under two minutes and is pretty fun. Seeing Reggie slowly take charge of the scene and the slimy unease with which Schweiger plays it - it's all nicely directed.

Free Download: Phantasm Tunes Recreated on Game Boy!

In celebration of the of the upcoming Phantasm Ravager, longtime phans and electronic musicians Comptroller & arcadecoma have offered up two new covers of classic Phantasm songs. The first is the original film's theme and the second is 'Sittin' Here At Midnight' as performed by Bill Thornbury and Reggie Bannister. Both covers were created using Nintendo Game Boys with Midnight even featuring the classic "UH!' punch before the jam! Hot as love!

This brings entirely new meaning to the line, "You play a good GAME BOY," doesn't it? Personally, I think these are marvelously fun additions to any phan's MP3 library. They make me long for a retro-inspired Phantasm game. Someone get on that, stat!

You can download both tunes for FREE right here. And as their page notes, "This is a free release purely made as a fan tribute, and all compositions remain the property of the relevant parties. We have no desire to incur the wrath of The Tall Man."

RAVAGER REVIEWS: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

More reviews for Phantasm Ravager are starting to come in and it's interesting how much they vary in their assessments of the project. Unlike in decades past with earlier sequels, most of these reviewers are actually claiming to be phans of the franchise, so we can't much claim mainstream bias against the franchise or even genre. Some are digging it, others are not. Obviously everyone's mileage is going to vary based on personal preferences. It is hilarious to see Variety saying nice things about the movie having ravaged Phantasm II so many years ago.

THE GOOD
"Franchise fans should enjoy this latest installment as the cinematic equivalent of a greatest hits album." (Variety)

"As a whole, Phantasm: Ravager is a triumphant conclusion to this franchise." (The Daily Dead)

THE BAD
"And while dream logic and convoluted mythology are part of the charm of the Phantasm movies, even hardcore Phans may walk away from this one feeling unfulfilled." (The AV Club)

THE UGLY

"It’s no small thing to state that Ravager is garbage. Straight, undiluted garbage. It’s easily the worst of the franchise, and even one of the worst sequels in any major horror film franchise." (Geek League of America)

Phantasm Porn Spoof Gets Official Poster

Someone involved with the Phantasm Porn Spoof I posted about earlier this week reached out to me yesterday with a look at the project's official poster artwork... and it's hilariously spot-on. Special thanks to graphic designer Martin Figueroa for providing The Phantasm Archives with a specially-modified safe-for-work version of it! I've posted it here alongside the original Phantasm poster artwork for comparison. You can click either image to see it larger.

Considering my original post on this immediately became my FOURTH most viewed blog post out of 278 posts on Phantasm going back nearly a decade, I'm going to assume this is still of interest to most of you!

 

IMPORTANT: Bring Remastered & Ravager to Your City!

I'm reposting the following news release from the official Phantasm social media accounts. This is a hugely important development for phans that have yet to see theatrical listings for either Phantasm Remastered or Phantasm Ravager in their towns. This is your opportunity to bring the Tall Man to your city!

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Want to bring PHANTASM: REMASTERED or PHANTASM: RAVAGER (or both) to your hometown theater? It’s easy to do with Tugg, in three simple steps:

1. Go to Tugg.com and pick your film, your three closest theaters, and a date. Tugg will handle everything behind the scenes and get a theater on board for the screening.

2. Once a theater is on board, your screening is PENDING. To take it from PENDING to GO, a threshold of tickets (usually between 40 and 70) need to be sold. We’ll provide you with a kit you can use to promote your screening and help get those tickets moving.

3. Once the tickets are sold, your screening is a GO and it’s show time! We’ll handle everything with the theater from here out.

Got questions? Ask in the Phantasm Facebook comments and they'll help you out! We want ANYONE who wants to see PHANTASM on the big screen to have their chance, so don’t hesitate.

Forget Ravager. PHANTASM PORN Is Now a Thing

Forget Ravager, there's another newly released Phantasm film on the scene... and I'm willing to bet it's got way more balls than anything in the new official film. Before you think I'm kidding you about this next post, let me assure you I'm entirely serious. This is real.

An ambitious group of porn filmmakers have debuted a new work called PHANGASM: A HARDCORE PHANTASM PARODY. That's right - there is now literally a pornographic parody of the Phantasm series. 

The plot description is as such: "Sadie Santana and her cohort of thick, burly men have come to visit The Tall Man for revenge! This mysterious, evil being is awoken by their presence, and sends his equally mysterious and evil silver balls to punish them one by one! As Gage, Jon Jon, and Mr. Pete are each placed under the spell of The Balls, only Sadie is left, roaming the halls terrified and alone! Suddenly coming upon her ball-addled former-friends, the lovely Miss Santana is taken down." [plot description cut off at this point as what happens next ain't exactly fit for spelling out here!]

The parody appears to borrow some of the most familiar elements from Phantasm. The cast includes a Tall Man (he's on stilts!), both Pearson brothers and a black Reggie. There is also a silver ball... sort of. The silver menace in Phangasm is actually a floating pair of chromed testicles. No joke.

I'm not going to post a link to the production company's website here, but if you're sharp enough you can simply Google the film and find where it's being sold at. If you happen to dare to watch it, do us all a favor and report back here with a comment on the story!

EPIC Phantasm Pumpkin w/ Entire Cast!

It's not yet October, but that spooky feeling is already in the air. In what is becoming a delightful Halloween tradition, the ridiculously talented Natalie Tomaszewski has shared with us another Phantasm pumpkin creation - this time featuring the entire cast! Pictured here in character are actors Angus Scrimm, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister and Kat Lester. (Click any photo to see it larger!)

Natalie is constantly producing amazing pumpkin works of art, so be sure to check her out on Facebook at the Carved In Kin page. You can see beneath her most recent Phantasm pumpkin here one she did for my book, Phantasm Exhumed, last Halloween! I'm sure this pumpkin will impress both phans and cast members alike just as her previous ones have.