{"id":14757,"date":"2013-03-22T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/?p=14757"},"modified":"2013-03-22T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:18:34","slug":"razs-midnight-macabre-horror-review-phantasm-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/razs-midnight-macabre-horror-review-phantasm-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Raz\u2019s Midnight Macabre Horror Review: Phantasm Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/razs-midnight-macabre-horror-review-phantasm-overview\/tallman1_ph3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14758\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14758\" title=\"TallMan1_PH3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TallMan1_PH3-e1363828891981.jpg?resize=500%2C270\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Well folks, there you have it. The entire &#8220;Phantasm&#8221; series review.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0I seriously enjoyed looking back over this under-rated series and it is that, under-rated.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/razs-midnight-macabre-horror-review-phantasm-overview\/phantasm-2b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14759\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14759\" title=\"phantasm-2b\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/phantasm-2b-e1363828976119.jpg?resize=500%2C369\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>When it comes to villains Tall Man is up there with the best, he&#8217;s creepy, scary, has some amazing lines and also one of the best weapons. That Sphere terrified me for a long time, I used to vision it zooming round a corner and coming straight at me. But even with all this he has the one thing that makes a great character, fantastic on screen presence. Every scene he&#8217;s in is great, kudos to Angus Scrimm for never putting in a bad performance. Same goes to the rest of the cast, especially\u00a0Reggie Bannister who plays &#8216;Reggie&#8217; (who else?!), another character I feel is overlooked in the genre.<\/h3>\n<h3>One great thing the film has going for it is it&#8217;s effects, they maybe simple and not exactly over the top but it works so well in this series. That added with great direction and writing from\u00a0Don Coscarelli and a fantastic score makes it all a great package. It&#8217;s a very strong franchise which is why it surprises me it&#8217;s not bigger than it is.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/razs-midnight-macabre-horror-review-phantasm-overview\/phantasm_sphere2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14760\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14760\" title=\"phantasm_sphere2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/phantasm_sphere2-e1363829012377.jpg?resize=500%2C244\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>As a sequel to the movie series, an official Phantasm comic book was released, edited by Xmachina. It featured a script written by Stephen Romano and artwork, coloring and visual effects by Mike Broom, Noah David Henson, and Ricardo Bernardini. The first issue was available only in a limited edition of 2000 copies, all of them autographed on the cover by Don Coscarelli.<\/h3>\n<h3>As for the future of the &#8220;Phantasm&#8221; series it remain unknown, since the last release 15 years ago in 1998 there have been many, many rumours but nothing more than that. I actually did a post last year called &#8220;Phantasm V: Will It Ever Happen?&#8221; which can be read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/razsmidnightmacabre.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/09\/phantasm-v-will-it-ever-happen.html?zx=dc1f450502158988\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/razs-midnight-macabre-horror-review-phantasm-overview\/phantasmcomiccover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14761\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14761\" title=\"PhantasmComicCover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PhantasmComicCover-e1363829106953.jpg?resize=500%2C798\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"798\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>If you haven&#8217;t watched any of them yet then I suggest you go get all 4 films and have a movie marathon night, I highly doubt that you&#8217;ll be disappointed.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>If you enjoy all the Horror stuff I do for SomeWhatNerdy then make sure you like the \u2018Raz\u2019s Midnight Macabre\u2019\u00a0\u00a0or even better head to my blog page itself and sign up:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Raz\u2019s Midnight Macabre\u00a0Facebook page (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RazsMidnightMacabre\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>)<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Raz\u2019s Midnight Macabre\u00a0Blog page (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/razsmidnightmacabre.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well folks, there you have it. The entire &#8220;Phantasm&#8221; series review. \u00a0I seriously enjoyed looking back over this under-rated series and it is that, under-rated. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":14758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,725],"tags":[230,928,1343],"class_list":["post-14757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-razs-horror","tag-horror","tag-razs-midnight-macabre","tag-phantasm","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TallMan1_PH3.jpg?fit=500%2C270&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35LLI-3Q1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14757"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14812,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions\/14812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}