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Aliens, dwarven zombies and silver spheres<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

This time I will talk about a saga that began in the ’80s, but I discovered it many years later: Fantasm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It really started in 1979. Don Coscarelli was the screenwriter, photographer, co-producer and editor. (Did he have 4 hands? Who knows\u2026) The budget was very low and the financing was local. Most of the crew and cast were amateurs and people who aspired to a professional career. Despite everything, it became a cult film and gave rise to a saga that continued until recently. It was very successful with the public and also with part of the critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angus Scrimm played a supernatural being known as the Tall Man. He wore a suit that was too small for him and platform shoes to appear even taller and slimmer. Tall Man pretended to be a simple businessman from the funeral industry, but he really turned the dead into a kind of dwarf zombies. With them, he planned to form an army of slaves to work for him on his planet, located in another dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tall Man<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For such purposes, Tall Man has devices in the form of a metallic sphere (the sentinels), which can fly and display blades that stick into the skull of the victim, and then extract the blood. Coscarelli based his idea on recurring nightmares he had, where a silver sphere with a spike chased him through corridors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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metalic sphere blood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At first, the role of Jody Pearson was going to be assigned to Gregory Harrison, but then it was given to Bill Thombury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we continue, spoiler alert: If you’re thinking about watching the movie, you should stop reading now.<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Plot<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It all begins with the death of a boy named Tomi, in Morningside Cemetery, while making love to a woman known as the Lavender Lady. She is actually Tall Man in another form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of Tomi’s friends, Jody and Reggie, go to the funeral. They believe that Tomi committed suicide. Jody has a 13-year-old brother named Mike. Since their parents’ deaths, Jody had taken care of Mike. Jody forbade Mike to attend the funeral, fearing that it might affect him, as his parents\u2019 affected him. But Mike spies on them from afar and sees Jody and three other people carry the coffin after the funeral. It is then that he is surprised to see Tall Man lift the coffin with one arm and place it in a hearse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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jody and Reggie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mike tries to tell people what he saw but no one believes him. So he decides to investigate on his own. Thus he discovers that Tall Man is not alone. After confronting Tall Man and his henchmen, Jody is stabbed to death by the Lavender Lady (remember that she is actually Tall Man). Finally, they manage to crush him with a rock. Then Mike wakes up. It had all been a dream. But Mike is still worried and goes to talk to Reggie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reggie tells him that Jody died in a car accident and invites him on a road trip. When Mike goes to his room to pack, the Tall Man appears behind the mirror and the dwarfs try to capture him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the trailer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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