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Post by postmortem on May 8, 2010 0:14:19 GMT -5
You know, I was there that evening and I remember thinking the whole time, "Why are we refilming this? It looked perfect in P1!" But at the same time, it was really cool seeing something I loved so dearly being recreated. The long hair theory makes a lot of sense, though. Don't know if that was the real reason for refilming this, but sounds logical to me.
I think it was December and the mausoleum set was still being prepared at the Chatsworth warehouse. For this one scene, they'd put plywood boards up temporarily against two walls of the set, then propped Angus in the corner between them. His hair was definitely longer. I remember his voice didn't sound as deep and scary as in P1. But he still looked creepy!
Kate Coscarelli and I were standing side by side, watching. And suddenly the power went out! The whole warehouse was plunged into darkness. I remember the crew breaking out into nervous chuckles in the dark, no one wanted to move a muscle (never knew what you'd trip over there). I kept thinking, "I'm standing just a few feet away from the Tall Man and I can't even seen him!" Silly thought, I know. But it gave me goosebumps. lollol
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Post by gopher in heat on May 8, 2010 2:55:01 GMT -5
iamsunshine, I think a part of the reason it was reshot is because Angus had short hair in the ending of the original, and they wanted the scene to be seamless (with the Tall Man's look) at the beginning of P2. Thanks for the clarification…funny, when I created my username for the board I didn’t realize most people see it as “ I am Sunshine” it’s actually LM sunshine. And it doesn’t stand for "Little Miss" Sunshine. Ah, my bad! Sorry for the confusion, haha.
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Post by pumpmonkey on May 8, 2010 16:47:30 GMT -5
Tony, I had read her name the same way!!!! LOL (My apologies SUNSHINE)
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Post by lmsunshine on May 8, 2010 22:35:02 GMT -5
Tony, I had read her name the same way!!!! LOL (My apologies SUNSHINE) That's funny...No apologies, it's not my real name. I used lower case when creating the name and now I see why it's confusing. My real name is Lena. So I was using my initials and my beloved parakeets name "Sunshine" who broke my heart when she passed away a year ago. Kristen - I like the part "The whole warehouse was plunged into darkness". If I was there, I would be the only one to enjoy that. I laugh when the lights go out at work sometimes and you hear the entire floor going oooooo.
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Post by darkstalker on Aug 17, 2010 22:59:40 GMT -5
Postmortem brought up a great point.Never looked at that way with Mike being pulled through the spacegate in the closet! What always frighten me about that scene...Mike's SCREAMING!! Made the hairs on my neck stand up!! It sounds like he's being tortured to death!! And from a 5 year old perspective,that bothered me...Maybe Mike was heading or falling to the Red Planet.I could roll with that...Makes sense!! Gopher in Heat,I understood what you're saying.Cause Mike(a decoy Mike) was not-or never the same after that.
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Post by tallman3 on May 18, 2011 19:49:20 GMT -5
The scene that scared me the most is one that most people forget about. When Mike was in his friend's antique shop and saw the vintage 1880's tin type of the horse drawn hearse in front of Morningside with the Tallman in a black top hat and long black coat driving the hearse. Suddenly the tin photo came alive and the Tallman turned and glared at Mike. This was just a really creepy scene to me and made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Mike getting chased through the mausoleum by the Tallman brings back memories of childhood nightmares, being chased by a bogeyman and you always seemed to run in slow motion.
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Post by tallman3 on May 18, 2011 20:14:24 GMT -5
Funny story about seeing Phantasm the very first time. I saw Phantasm at a theater in Roswell, Georgia, in June 1979. There were four black teenage girl's sitting on the row behind me. When the Tallman started chasing Mike through the Morningside Mausoleum, all four screamed at the same time and threw their big bags of popcorn up in the air. It rained popcorn down on 4 of the middle rows of people. By the end of the movie, I had fingernail claw marks in the top of my arm where my girlfriend was holding on to my arm so tight, that her long fingernails left impressions in my arm.
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Post by tallman3 on May 18, 2011 20:30:32 GMT -5
You know, I was there that evening and I remember thinking the whole time, "Why are we refilming this? It looked perfect in P1!" But at the same time, it was really cool seeing something I loved so dearly being recreated. The long hair theory makes a lot of sense, though. Don't know if that was the real reason for refilming this, but sounds logical to me. I think it was December and the mausoleum set was still being prepared at the Chatsworth warehouse. For this one scene, they'd put plywood boards up temporarily against two walls of the set, then propped Angus in the corner between them. His hair was definitely longer. I remember his voice didn't sound as deep and scary as in P1. But he still looked creepy! Kate Coscarelli and I were standing side by side, watching. And suddenly the power went out! The whole warehouse was plunged into darkness. I remember the crew breaking out into nervous chuckles in the dark, no one wanted to move a muscle (never knew what you'd trip over there). I kept thinking, "I'm standing just a few feet away from the Tall Man and I can't even seen him!" Silly thought, I know. But it gave me goosebumps. lollol I'll bet if somebody in the dark grabbed you on the shoulder and yelled, "Boyyyyyyyyyy!", you would have pissed in your pants.
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Post by algormortis on May 20, 2011 0:13:08 GMT -5
the chase scene did it for me. Mike was just barely out of the tall man's reach. Those eerie howling type sounds in the background were just plain SCARY. This scene really made me hunker down as a kid watching it for the first time. Later after becoming a funeral director, I realized my funeral home's casket room carried the same model of the casket Mike was hiding in. The casket is called Autumn Oak (with oak leaf in head panel) and produced by Batesville Casket Company. To this day, Batesville still makes the casket exactly the same as it appears in Phantasm.
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Post by postmortem on May 20, 2011 8:55:29 GMT -5
Another funeral director! And, yes, you're absolutely right--it was the Autumn Oak. I used to sell those to clients and got such a private chuckle out of that. I loved Batesville's cherry casket the best as far as beauty.
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Post by algormortis on May 20, 2011 11:19:14 GMT -5
I have actually chuckled to myself a few times also after selling it. The casket had just been delivered one time and was sitting closed in the selection room. I looked over my shoulder and did the slow caretaker walk toward the casket. It was waaaay to slow at the funeral home that day! I know what you mean about the cherry, its a real beauty. We carry the batesville pembroke cherry but the autumn oak continues to be our best selling wood casket in east Texas.
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Post by postmortem on May 20, 2011 11:28:26 GMT -5
I sold a LOT of Batesville cherry caskets too in my years there. As an experiment, I would deliberately try not to go to that casket, touch it or even look at it while in the room with families—I would do nothing to indicate favoritism towards it. And yet, sure enough, many clients gravitated towards it and purchased it despite any financial reservations they might previously have had! The casket is definitely beautiful and I can see why people like it so (it reminds me of a finely polished violin). My coworkers all agreed that directors tended to sell more of the caskets they themselves preferred! We each had a different one we liked, and the numbers proved this trend. Do you find this happening at your mortuary? Maybe so--that’s why you’re selling so many Autumn Oaks! lollol
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Post by algormortis on May 20, 2011 12:57:50 GMT -5
I have never considered it that way, but I think your absolutely right. One director loves the stainless steel onyx and he always seems to be selling it while another guy sells a lot of the colonial pine(also his favorite). While my favorites are the darker and richer woods, the autumn oak still out performs. We are in a moderate income area with furniture stores that carry more oak furnishings than mahogany or cherry. After 17 years of making home removals, I find that more homes are furnished with oak than darker finer woods in our area. So I think the autumn oak is more home-like or just more familiar.
But, cremation continues to increase even in the bible belt. And our best selling urn....Franklin Cherry!....so who knows! lol
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Post by vitaman2007 on May 20, 2011 13:42:23 GMT -5
I always like to reread old threads. Back to the whole space gate in the closet thing... what if, when Mike gets pulled through (and presumably through a space gate), maybe the Mike that comes back through (the Mike we see being pulled from the closet at the beginning of P2) isn't the same Mike... sort of like how when Jebediah went through the gate, "he never did come back". Maybe this Mike is something similar to the Tall Man clones we've seen come through the gates so many times, and this Mike is the one with the sphere in his head... This seems like it's spot on. After all, Mike does have that sphere in his head in P3. I hear it's quite expensive to be kept in a mausoleum cubicle. True?
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Post by algormortis on May 20, 2011 15:14:02 GMT -5
In my area mausoleum crypts range anywhere from $5,000 - $15,000. In metropolitan areas the cost would be more. There are no ongoing or "rental" charges to be kept in a mausoleum, just the initial cost of the crypt.
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Post by prymal on May 25, 2011 19:21:27 GMT -5
I have told my children that when i go i want to be cremated and placed in a silver orb, and i want a life size cardboard cut-out of the Tall Man holding the orb with the word balloon attached that reads "see you REAL soon!". I then want this placed in the entry of the funeral home for everyone to have to see. Once inside, i have left instructions for the doors to be barred and i want loud, offensive hard rock to be blared for at least an hour so that all the old geezers inside have to listen to it. This will be followed by all 4 (hopefully 5) Phantasm Philms being played, followed by a short video clip of me telling everyone present to kiss it and what the hell are they doing at my funeral viewing? Don't they have work to do? Geez, and what's with the flowers? What the hell do i care, I'm DEAD!!! That is all-end rant...
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Post by lupus on Sept 5, 2011 11:00:35 GMT -5
What did I find scary about Phantasm? Well, quite a few things. Firstly, the Tall Man himself - what makes him so scary is how he looks normal and yet - barring the excellently creepy demeanour Angus Scrimm gives off while playing him - there is something just...off...about him. No scars, no sharp ears or teeth, no deformed features, no masks, no hissing, snarling or creepy accents, no demonic eyes...just someone who looks like an ordinary person and yet ain't. This is best shown in the Main Street scene. The way the Tall Man walks is strangely...robotic, almost. As if he's learned it out of a handbook and has practised again and again, but can't pull it off normally. It even looks like he's jerking himself forward with every step he makes. It's like he just walked out of Uncanny Valley. Other scenes of note are the scenes at the mausoleum - which are so tense that you positively dread what's possibly around the next corner - and the dream and chase sequences. I particularly like the strange ghostly howls that are heard in the dreams and chases. And of course, what scared us most more than the purely awesome final scene and that classic line?
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Post by Spanish Phan on Sept 5, 2011 13:27:12 GMT -5
Hi, lupus. When you said this: What did I find scary about Phantasm? Well, quite a few things. Firstly, the Tall Man himself - what makes him so scary is how he looks normal and yet - barring the excellently creepy demeanour Angus Scrimm gives off while playing him - there is something just...off...about him. No scars, no sharp ears or teeth, no deformed features, no masks, no hissing, snarling or creepy accents, no demonic eyes...just someone who looks like an ordinary person and yet ain't. Man, I couldn't agree more. That is why an eventual remake of this movie would never work for me. Angus pulls out such an amazing performance that recasting the role is almost impossible. To some extent, I could picture someone else playing Mike or Reggie, but not The Tall Man. It's like Indiana Jones not being played by Harrison Ford... I wouldn't buy it!
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Post by tallman on Mar 28, 2013 11:56:00 GMT -5
The scene at the end where Mike closes the door and the Tall Man is standing in the room and says BOY.
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Post by Kitty on Apr 1, 2013 10:41:34 GMT -5
I was not even 8 years old when Phantasm was released. I would never been allowed to see movies at that age. The most jump right out of my skin moment is when Jody stands there and a hand just lands on his shoulder! Both me and Jody nearly had cardiacs!
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