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Post by dosequisxx on Apr 4, 2014 4:45:28 GMT -5
I've been online a lot lately like everyone else in anticipation of Ravager and Dustin's book. I don't think I've seen this thread. I stopped and thought "How the heck did I even become a fan in the first place?" I'm a child of the '70s. I've heard of Phantasm, but it wasn't as touted as Halloween was back then. Years later, an older friend of mine said he can't watch Phantasm 'cause it freaks him out and he said BBOOOOOYYYY!! I rented it and was immediately in love with it. I loved the late '70s vibe and feel of it. Like Halloween, the music really sells these movies. I loved that the movie was built around a tenacious 13 year old who gets to drive a car, drink beer, handle a weapon and tries to stop all of this weirdness around him. Completely original.
I followed up and rented Phantasm II and liked the update. I heard of Phantasm III from an issue of Fangoria back in the early '90s and loved the amount of attention given to the article, especially that it was advertised that the original cast was back, rented it and loved it.
Oblivion, I discovered by accident in the same Blockbuster Video store on the shelf. Didn't know it was out. I rented it and initially didn't care for it. Much like my initial feeling of Alien 3, I thought this was going to be an action-packed, slam-bang finale, but got something entirely different. I thought I should rewatch it and, just like Alien 3(Assembly Cut), there's a good movie in there.
None of my friends watch these movies. At least there are other fans here online that i can share my love of these films with. It's great to be a phan!
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Post by mirai on Apr 4, 2014 6:49:43 GMT -5
if i remember rightly it was PIII: Lord of The Dead taped off of a sky channel and as a kid it scared me then i had forgotten about it for a few years then i bought them on vhs and then i discovered the anchor bay uk box dvd set and bought it
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Post by MisterE on Apr 4, 2014 8:29:30 GMT -5
For me, it started in the 80s when I was 5yrs old. My aunt would babysit me and I guess I was a hyper and would never be quiet lol. So one day, she turned on Phantasm. I stopped dead in my tracks, plopped my butt down in front of the tv and watched the entire movie, even though I had no clue what the hell was going on. So from there on, she would always turn on scary movies to keep me quiet and that's how I got into horror. Phantasm is special for me because that was my first scary movie.
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Post by sandpitturtle on Apr 17, 2014 0:42:58 GMT -5
It was simple. I had met some cool dude on Xbox Live that was into movies. He invited me to watch a movie with him on Netflix using the party feature. We watched Phantasm 1.
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Post by playgames1970 on Apr 17, 2014 10:52:52 GMT -5
In 1988 I started working at a movie theatre, and that was the summer that Phantasm II came out; we had the film showing there at the theatre for most of that summer. That was in a time when films played for months on end in theatres, and didn't get dropped within a few weeks, so even though I had never even heard of the original Phantasm, I saw the second movie over and over and over that summer, at least in bits and pieces. I can't remember exactly how/when I saw the original and the other two sequels, though I believe it wasn't until Oblivion had already been out for quite some time.
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Post by twogunbob on Apr 24, 2014 20:52:21 GMT -5
Hmmm, it came on TV one Saturday or Sunday morning in the edited for content format for the 'Creature Feature' slot. I wish I could say what year it was... Maybe around 83-84 making me ten or eleven at the time. I know my older brother was adamant about me watching it and was gnashing his teeth loudly about the severe editing of the sphere kill. Followed the series ever since. Have a lot of thoughts about the importance of the first one as a psychological study into the relationship with brothers but I'll save that for later.
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Post by vivalabeck on Apr 27, 2014 12:55:35 GMT -5
TNT's Monstervision showed Phantasm II in 1997. I was 13 years old. Immediately rented Phantasm III and it scared the crap out of me. I was at an age where I could still get scared...so scared that I couldn't even bring myself to rent the original Phantasm. I would look at the box at the video store but always put it back on the shelf. The following year Oblivion came out and I saw it with a friend. I was pretty let down by it at the time. After that I finally went back to watch the first one.
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Post by krakenslayer on Apr 27, 2014 16:02:40 GMT -5
Phantasm III was on BBC2 or Channel 4 late one night when I was an insomniac student in about 2002/2003. Immediately loved it. I later picked up Phantasm II on video. I didn't see the others until I found the sphere boxset on offer in Fopp some years later (about 2006), then me and my girlfriend watched them in order over a four week period, like a TV miniseries (the films really lend themselves to this style of viewing), and got hooked.
I had heard of and read about the films prior to all this, and had seen some snippets of P2 on TV one evening when I was a teenager (I misidentified it as a weird episode of Buffy, which I didn't much like, because it was on in the same slot, and I changed channels), so you could say I "discovered" them earlier, but this is how I got INTO them.
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Post by barongraves on May 2, 2014 22:37:32 GMT -5
My brother and I watched Phantasm II multiple times in high school. We were creeped out and fascinated at the same time. Rented the first one, followed the rest.
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Post by ogredixon on May 5, 2014 11:10:42 GMT -5
I never saw the original in the theater, but my cousin (who is a major horror fan) introduced me to the original on VHS in probably 1984/5. I have been hooked ever since. I have been lucky enough to meet many of the cast and crew and can honestly say you won't find a nicer, more close knit bunch of people anywhere.
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Post by fabienvanec on May 22, 2014 3:56:32 GMT -5
Hello over there !
Here is a Phrench Phan
I'm 37 and I discovered the Phantasm movies in 1994, I was then 17. At this time, there were only 6 channels on TV, and on the 6th channel (M6 is the name) every thursday after the first movie, around 10h30 pm there were "the Thursdays of the anguish" (les jeudis de l'angoisse) they broadcasted an horror movie every week.
At this time I was into the 80's horror movies and when I saw Phantasm was from the 1970's, I thought "argh too old" but then I saw on the same Tv guide that the week after a part 2 rom the 80's would be on. So I thought "okay if there is a sequel it must be at least watchable". Watchable it was... I thought that Phantasm was really creepy and I loved immediatly the main theme, some stuff were bothering me but mainly I thought that for an old movie the path, the rhythm was okay and the end of the movie was very surprising !
The week after phantasm 2 was broadcasted, I was very happy because the pictures looked more recent. I also really liked that phantasm 2 started right after the last frame of part 1. and the music and the flying balls were back.
Then a couple of days later ( a month or two) I was in my video store ( I missed them so much, they were my second home) wandering in the horror aisle when I saw a pink cover and a face I knew on it : Phantasm 3 was released. At this time of no internet ( in Phrance) and as I wasn't reading any horror magazine it was a big surprise. I rented it and I loved it (Part 3 has been for a long time my favorite, it is really with this one that I got hooked).
I was in america when I first saw part 4 but it's another story for another time !
Fabien
ps: Hope there wasn't too many mistakes
ps: nowadays my favorite are phantasm 1 then 3, then 4, then really far behind is part 2 ( it is like nightmare on Elm street to me I can't stand part 2 )
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Post by vitaman2007 on May 25, 2014 7:43:10 GMT -5
... then really far behind is part 2 ( it is like nightmare on Elm street to me I can't stand part 2 ) [/p] [/quote] According to ***"Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy", Europe really "enjoyed" Part 2. I agree, I erased that one from memory immediately. It's a good thing Don passed on that.
Welcome to the Phorum.
***It's funny, the point where I left off in the movie segued into Dustin's book; Mark S. complaining at the Hard Rock about "Skylar" and the Freddie snake from NOES3.
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Post by demonicdan79 on May 25, 2014 8:40:44 GMT -5
The first Phantasm came out the year I did ('79) but I only got to see it when I spotted the cover in Blockbuster Video in the early 2000s. I was instantly hooked and couldn't understand how I never saw it sooner. Probably distracted by Nightmare on Elm St, Halloween, Evil Dead, and every other "mainstream" series.
I saw the Silver Sphere box-set in HMV on special offer a few years back and grabbed that baby right away!
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Post by fabienvanec on May 25, 2014 10:09:27 GMT -5
Welcome to the Phorum.
Thanks
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