Phantasm

After Reggie makes the physical connection between the two nodes on the gateway, he falls backward onto the floor.

In the letterbox edition, the ropes used to pull him back toward the gateway are briefly visible as he falls.

When Mike pulls the car up the driveway, when he pulls the lever his pants are blue, but when he steps out, his pants are brown.

When The Tall Man breaks down the door of Mike's house, at the bottom of the door, a crew person's feet are visible running and pushing the door.

When the door slams on The Tall Man's fingers, you can clearly tell that no fingers are really sticking out of the door.

When the Tall Man falls in the pit and grabs onto the sides, the ground around the pit moves.

If the pit that the tall man falls into at the end of the film is, as Jodie says "1,000 feet straight down", how is it that such a small amount of rocks and boulders fill the pit up to the top? The Volkswagon originally faces the overturned ice cream truck, but when Mike breaks through the back window and the car takes off, the ice cream truck has disappeared.

When the Mike sees the Tall Man at the end of the movie, the Tall Man's hair is shorter than it has been throughout the rest of the film.

You can see the stick making the finger move when its in the box.

When Mike is trapped in the Tall Man's hearse, he shoots at the right rear tire to make it crash, but the left rear tire is shown blowing off of the car.

When the finger-turned-bug flies out of the garbage disposal and passes Reggie's head, the string used to pull the bug is visible.

When the flying sphere hits the caretaker in the forehead, you can see wires in the front that's holding it up.

Don Coscarelli says in the DVD commentary that it was a reverse shot where the ball was actually pulled away, thus revealing the wires.

In the car chase, Mike shouts that there is no one driving the car behind them, however some poor lighting reveals a tall man driving the car.

In the scene where Mike is hiding in the casket in the mortuary display room, we see him peek out from under the partially raised lid of the casket, with his Bic lighter resting on the side of the casket.

An immediate cut to a longer shot from above shows Mike raising the lid the rest of the way and starting to climb out, but as he raises his right arm from inside the casket we see that the Bic lighter is clenched in his right hand.

When Mike escapes the caretaker's grasp by biting his arm, the wound bleeds heavily.

When the camera cuts to Mike again after the caretaker is killed by the sphere, there is no blood on his face.

At the beginning of the movie when Mike is joy riding on his motorcycle through the cemetery, the tracks of the trailer towing the motorcycle are visible in the grass behind him.

The length of The Tall Man's finger is longer in the wooden box than when it was originally severed.

While the Caretaker is being drilled by the flying ball it shoots a large stream of blood.

Then the camera angle changes and we see the floor there is no blood.

(at around 1 min) Mike crashes his dirt bike from a side angle but in the second shot, the bike goes from flying upside down to dead still.

The bike was obviously just sitting there in the next angle while Mike jumps into the edit.

When Jody and Reggie yank Mike back through the portal, the silver pole farthest from the camera moves as if it's about to fall over.

I had waited 20 years to see this film, and it didn't disappoint, love the iconic music. The scenes with the tall man are the perfect creep factor to this installment, the Morningside mortuary is the same house used by Tanya Roberts in my favorite Bond film A View to a kill.

If the sound of that sonorous, ball-rattling growl wasn't enough to make you wet yourself, you needed to check your pulse to see if it was still there. Or as the poster and the previews so aptly put it: "If THIS doesn't scare you, YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD!!!

This definitely had the feel of the 70s. The music, atmosphere, way they talk, clothing, all 70s.

This movie came out my senior year in high school. I saw a lot of horror movies back then, and the more brutal, the better.

Where does one start, For me i decided to watch this as it does indeed have a cult following but most of it make no sense. So we have these tall man who appears to be a shape shifter who also takes on the guise of a nubile young woman and me thinks this is to hook the teenage audience in to the cinemas who having sex in a graveyard with a young man (Tommy) only for then whilst he's in the throws of pleasure to kill him.

You'd be hard pressed to think of another film quite like Phantasm. It's dreamlike, eerie, and full of dread from the very first scene to the last.

Strange but effective horror film about a young boy named Mike who, after recently losing his parents, discovers that the mortuary they are entombed at is run by a sinister tall man(Angus Scrimm, most menacing!) who uses dwarfs and flying spheres as part of a secret plan against the human race, and enlists his older brother Jody and his friend Reggie to stop him, though as they will discover, he isn't that easy to kill...

Directed By Don Coscarelli, The Story. About a Teenage Boy Name Mike And His Brother Jody Played By Michael Baldwin And Bill Thornbury Stump Upon a Grave Robber And a Mortician Who Goes By The Name The Tall Man Played By Angus Scrimm in a Chilling Role That Will Later Go On To Be An icon Villian Character By Beloved Phantasm Fans.

Just recently got a gift for the Blu Ray boxset of all the Phantasm films and thoroughly enjoying these cult classics on high def and on the big screen at home. 1st one I will initially review, as this was what started the craze.