Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 272: Tue Oct 9

Phantasm (Coscarelli, 1979): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.30pm



This 35mm presentation at the prince Charles is part of the 'Horroctober' season at the cinema. You can find full details of the season here.

Time Out review:
A sparkling newrestoration for this cult horror classic. By the early ’80s, the home video boom had fuelled a tidal wave of American horror. But with proper financial backing and almost total creative freedom, these films were a world away from the cheapo grit of the grindhouse: directors like Stuart Gordon, Frank Henenlotter and Don Coscarelli had the funding to realise visions which would have been impossible a few years before, resulting in some of the most idiosyncratic movies in the horror canon. ‘Phantasm’ is the film that kickstarted it all, combining inventive DIY horror with a berserk plot involving homicidal space midgets, heroic ice-cream men, flying spheres which drill into the brain and of course the terrifying ‘Tall Man’. Over the course of three wild sequels, Coscarelli expanded his bizarre universe in a variety of imaginative and deliriously entertaining ways – but the original set the standard.

Tom Huddleston


Here (and above) is the trailer.

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