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Post by DustinM on Sept 16, 2007 16:39:20 GMT -5
Alright... Iceman has abandoned this thread so we'll do a restart. His question was foggy anyways. No one company ever supplied the films with cars but uberfan Guy Thorpe did provide many of the hearses used. How many people have played Mike Pearson over the years? Catch: Include stunt doubles.
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Post by gopher in heat on Sept 16, 2007 16:54:28 GMT -5
I'm not even gonna do research and see if I can get it based on what I know.
Let's see... there is of course Baldwin and LeGros, so that's 2. But then you have the double in part 1 and the female double at the beginning of part 2. So now we're up to 4.
I'm not positive if LeGros had a double... I'm gonna assume not. I doubt there were any doubles in 3 and 4 either... although I could be way way off.
So there you have it. My guess is 4.
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Post by DustinM on Sept 16, 2007 17:02:24 GMT -5
Tony, you're absolutely right. The only other double I know of was in Oblivion where Mike pushes the Tall Man's sphere against Jody's neck. In that scene, Mike was played by Guy Thorpe (or at least his hand was)... but I don't consider that actually counting as a stunt double.
Your turn for a queck-stion!
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Post by gopher in heat on Sept 16, 2007 18:09:32 GMT -5
Awesome.
Ok, what other films have been filmed at the mansion in P1?
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Post by vitaman2007 on Sept 16, 2007 22:25:31 GMT -5
Burnt Offerings is one.
When Reggie is trying to dislodge the rifle from its holder in the police car (in Oblivion), What is the actual sound being used (it doesn't sound like a screwdriver against metal)? (I'm just conjecturing)
This occured to me the other day when I drove off in my car.....
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Post by vitaman2007 on Sept 18, 2007 8:29:25 GMT -5
This is what I believe is the sound: It sounds like someone trying to fasten their seatbelt, but failing. Now what about that sound when Mike "bonks" Jody on the foot in the garage?
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Post by Mesila on Sept 21, 2007 22:30:35 GMT -5
The sound seems like keys in the ignition of an older car - one that doesn't make those damned beepy noises.
Here's a tangential question. What recent (as in, made in the last couple of years) film featured Angus Scrimm in a rather prominent role? Bonus points for his occupation in the film. Hint: it is sort of ironic when compared to the occupation of the Tall Man...
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Post by Mesila on Sept 22, 2007 17:26:38 GMT -5
What company provides the auto work on most of the phantasm movies? Not sure if this is what you were getting at but Bob Ivy does the exploding-vehicle numbers - I know he did this in 4 and I believe also in some of the others. Every Phantasm includes at least one Exploding Vehicle. But if you mean what company provides the Hemis and hearses and keeps 'em roadworthy I'm stumped.
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Post by Natalie on Sept 22, 2007 17:29:16 GMT -5
The sound seems like keys in the ignition of an older car - one that doesn't make those damned beepy noises. Here's a tangential question. What recent (as in, made in the last couple of years) film featured Angus Scrimm in a rather prominent role? Bonus points for his occupation in the film. Hint: it is sort of ironic when compared to the occupation of the Tall Man... Is it "I Sell the Dead"?
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Post by Mesila on Sept 23, 2007 15:41:54 GMT -5
Here's a tangential question. What recent (as in, made in the last couple of years) film featured Angus Scrimm in a rather prominent role? Bonus points for his occupation in the film. Hint: it is sort of ironic when compared to the occupation of the Tall Man... Is it "I Sell the Dead"? Not what I had in mind - but that one goes on my list to see for sure. (Sidenote: Larry Fessenden, another member of the cast of that film, wrote and directed a film himself with James LeGros in it, called The Last Winter.) The film I've got in mind--which I had been watching a few days ago, completely unaware that Angus would pop up in it, and so was quite amused as a result--has him playing a really ironic role: think along the lines of an occupation that in a certain sense is very similar to that of an undertaker...one which might require, at certain junctures, very similar training in order to learn it...but one that is also about as dissimilar to it as can be. So, it was really weird to see the Tall Man playing a role of someone in that occupation.
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Post by DustinM on Sept 23, 2007 15:48:06 GMT -5
Satanic?
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Post by Mesila on Sept 24, 2007 14:22:05 GMT -5
Bingo! Angus Scrimm plays a doctor in Satanic, which was just so weird...it was a very mediocre film in my humble opinion but I may watch it again just because it screwed with my mind to see the Tall Man playing a kindly doctor. He seemed malevolent somehow, but it's because in my mind he's just so typecast into the role we all love best. The ball's in your court Dustin.
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Post by DustinM on Oct 4, 2007 20:54:39 GMT -5
Holy crap, I dropped the ball on this one! I totally forgot it was my turn to pick a question. Alright, here's one for ya.
Who provided the voice (cackle, more like) of the fortune-teller in Phantasm: Oblivion?
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Post by gopher in heat on Oct 4, 2007 21:14:44 GMT -5
Wasn't it Michael Baldwin's wife?
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Post by DustinM on Oct 4, 2007 21:18:57 GMT -5
Correct-a-mondo. Your turn, Goph.
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Post by Mesila on Oct 5, 2007 13:17:37 GMT -5
Wasn't it Michael Baldwin's wife? I love the way making these films has involved the friends and family of the people making it. I just saw Reggie's Phantastic Tour yesterday. (I have no idea where this came from, a friend sent this to me, when I mentioned having discovered that I was into it) and it's just so cool, the way Reggie takes you to a whole bunch of locations you see in the films and does a "where are these places when you've space-gated yourself OUT of the Phantasm-universe into this one, and out of the 1977 world and into more recent times." He gives a running commentary in each location and alternates clips from the films with the locale to show how it's the same and also how it has changed. He mentions how there are parents from at least two of them at Tommy's funeral, playing mourners. You got to love parents that will do that for their kids... Helping their kid make a weird interdimensional flick that can't make up its mind between sci-fi and horror so straddles both genres and just smiles at you saying "But of course that's possible..." Gave me some great ideas for questions on this thread but I am stumped on Dustin's still. It's got me wondering about that woman. She's this recurring mystery, and she obviously knows something we don't, something very funny to her.
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Post by DustinM on Oct 5, 2007 13:40:33 GMT -5
How are you still stumped, Mesila? Someone got it right!
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Post by Mesila on Oct 8, 2007 18:50:39 GMT -5
How are you still stumped, Mesila? Someone got it right! Wait, fortune teller in Oblivion? Is this a scene I somehow missed, or are we talking about the Mysterious Recurrent Old Laughing Lady, who has now been established to be Jebediah's mother...? And yes, I'm still stumped...through all my interviews and other ephemera I find little mention of her, which is surprising since she's so...recurrent.
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Post by DustinM on Oct 8, 2007 19:19:15 GMT -5
She stops Jeb from chasing after Mike and says "Jebediah.....hehehe". That's Jennifer Baldwin's voice.
Next question, Tony!
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Post by gopher in heat on Oct 8, 2007 23:54:09 GMT -5
Let me think of a good one... it should be posted tomorrow!
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