Phantasm

Genre: Horror

Worldwide gross$12.0M

Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, afraid to lose his brother follow him to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lifting a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate, and discovers that the Tall Man, protected by his flying spheres, is shrinking dead bodies down to half their normal size and reanimating them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man.

🏆 2 wins & 2 nominations total

Genres

Horror, Sci-Fi

Director

Don Coscarelli

Cast

A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister

Released

28 March 1979

Runtime

1h 29m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.6 / 10

Votes

44,602

Metascore

72

Rotten Tomatoes

72%

Box office

$11,988,469

Edition

Base