Year: 1987
Actors: James Le Gros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm
Director: Don Coscarelli
Running Time: 93minutes
Actors: James Le Gros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm
Director: Don Coscarelli
Running Time: 93minutes
Plot:
Mike and Reggie are back and ready to kill The Tall Man, after Mike is released from a hospital Reggie takes him back to his home to stay with his family, but The Tall Man has other ideas for the 2 friends.
A beautiful young girl starts to appear in Mike's dreams and they form a connection. He can feel that she's in danger and needs their help - will they find her before the Tall Man can get to her too?
Review:
Again Angus Scrimm is back as the tall man and again he delivers such a fantastic role they really could not have picked a better actor to play the Tall Man he really is fantastic as the main villain.
Again Angus Scrimm is back as the tall man and again he delivers such a fantastic role they really could not have picked a better actor to play the Tall Man he really is fantastic as the main villain.
This time Reggie and Mike are on the road passing through different ghost towns that have been completely destroyed by the Tall Man, each town give a very scary atmosphere and make you wonder as to what the Tall Man has been up to while Mike was in the mental hospital, Mike who was originally played by Michael A Baldwin is not played by James Le Gros this is his first staring role in a movie and boy does he deliver the goods, He plays the role to perfection his character is a lot more grown up than the Mike from the first Phantasm movie and he is out for Revenge for the death of his brother Jodie.
Reggie Bannister reprises his role as Reggie the ice cream vendor, He did all his own stunts except for the one stunt were he has to jump over a chainsaw because they wouldn’t allow him to do that stunt because of the obvious dangers, again he delivers the role to perfection which makes Reggie my favourite character role in this movie just like he was in the first Phantasm, just like in the last movie when something can go wrong for him it usually does which sometimes can make you cry out with laughter and you can’t help stop yourself feeling sorry for him.
This time mike has a love interest with a girl called Liz Reynolds who he has a psychic connection with through his dreams, she is played by an actress named Paula Irvine she plays the part well and she is a very attractive women which helps! Although her character is one of the main character’s she just doesn’t feel like one of the main cast more like a supporting member because she just doesn’t deliver the role at the same level as Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm or James Le Gros, in some ways I felt like her character was a little too useless she didn’t really do anything to help out she just kind of stood in the background and did nothing, this wasn’t her fault though because the script just didn’t give her enough to do.
Again they went with the more simple special effects such as the Tall Man wearing clothes a couple of sizes to big and platform shoes and so on but the best effect they did was when Reggie’s house blows up with his family inside they used a real house and wired it up to explode so you couldn’t really get any better than that.
Reggie Bannister reprises his role as Reggie the ice cream vendor, He did all his own stunts except for the one stunt were he has to jump over a chainsaw because they wouldn’t allow him to do that stunt because of the obvious dangers, again he delivers the role to perfection which makes Reggie my favourite character role in this movie just like he was in the first Phantasm, just like in the last movie when something can go wrong for him it usually does which sometimes can make you cry out with laughter and you can’t help stop yourself feeling sorry for him.
This time mike has a love interest with a girl called Liz Reynolds who he has a psychic connection with through his dreams, she is played by an actress named Paula Irvine she plays the part well and she is a very attractive women which helps! Although her character is one of the main character’s she just doesn’t feel like one of the main cast more like a supporting member because she just doesn’t deliver the role at the same level as Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm or James Le Gros, in some ways I felt like her character was a little too useless she didn’t really do anything to help out she just kind of stood in the background and did nothing, this wasn’t her fault though because the script just didn’t give her enough to do.
Again they went with the more simple special effects such as the Tall Man wearing clothes a couple of sizes to big and platform shoes and so on but the best effect they did was when Reggie’s house blows up with his family inside they used a real house and wired it up to explode so you couldn’t really get any better than that.
The gore is a lot more effective in this movie than the first Phantasm you see a lot more death scenes and they are twice as brutal, My favourite death scene in this movie was when the Golden sphere was chasing Mike and Liz crashing through several doors and ends up killing an undertaker by drilling its self through his back coming all the way up to his mouth.
I think the Tall Man had a lot more dialog in this movie and he really does has the most frightening voice my favourite scene with the Tall Man is when he chokes a priest with his own necklace and then walks up to him and uses my favourite quote from a movie “You think when you die you go to heaven? You come to US!! Every time I watch that scene I get a chill go through my spine it’s a great atmospheric scene.
The music score to this movie was different to the original it used the same beat but they made it more modern personally I preferred the original but that isn’t to say this wasn’t a great score it still gave a lot of atmosphere and many frights.
This movie had a budget of $3,000,000 which was 10 times bigger than the first Phantasm movie and I think they used all of the $3,000,000 very well nothing about the movie seemed like it was a waste of time my only criticism is I wish they gave Paula Irvine more to do and kept the original score.
Scores:
Characterization and acting 8.5/10
Atmosphere and Gore 9/10
Music score 8/10
Overall enjoyment for this movie is a definite 8.5/10
I think the Tall Man had a lot more dialog in this movie and he really does has the most frightening voice my favourite scene with the Tall Man is when he chokes a priest with his own necklace and then walks up to him and uses my favourite quote from a movie “You think when you die you go to heaven? You come to US!! Every time I watch that scene I get a chill go through my spine it’s a great atmospheric scene.
The music score to this movie was different to the original it used the same beat but they made it more modern personally I preferred the original but that isn’t to say this wasn’t a great score it still gave a lot of atmosphere and many frights.
This movie had a budget of $3,000,000 which was 10 times bigger than the first Phantasm movie and I think they used all of the $3,000,000 very well nothing about the movie seemed like it was a waste of time my only criticism is I wish they gave Paula Irvine more to do and kept the original score.
Scores:
Characterization and acting 8.5/10
Atmosphere and Gore 9/10
Music score 8/10
Overall enjoyment for this movie is a definite 8.5/10
Written By
Evil Bob
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