Supernatural horror cheapy Phantasm: Ravager, the fourth (and hopefully last) sequel to Don Coscarelli s 1979 horror gem Phantasm, is for established fans only. Sure, the film s creators do their due diligence, and try to get newcomers up to speed with flashbacks that allude to the by-now unnecessarily convoluted story of three friends decades-long struggle to defeat the Tall Man, an evil body-snatching under-taker from another dimension. And Ravager does have an internal logic that makes its time and subplot-jumping story easy to follow. But this new Phantasm will not be of interest to anyone who doesn t already know who the Tall Man is, or why he needs to be stopped. The stakes are higher this time apparently, the Tall Man wants to dominate the world now! and the characters back stories are a little clearer. And there are a lot of pleasing callbacks to the previous films. But there s nothing so viscerally exciting in Ravager that newcomers have to see.
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Grief and Terror with THE FINAL GIRLS and PHANTASM
Chad Collins processes grief through a retrospective of PHANTASM and THE FINAL GIRLS. By Chad Collins
C.S. Lewis once famously wrote, “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” To Lewis, and so many others, it’s a sensation not unlike being afraid, replete with “fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning” of pure, abject terror. More than anything, though– perhaps the most frightening thing about grief– is its permanence. It is an enduring state.
Most fear is ephemeral; it ebbs and flows alongside the vagaries of life. Like first love or good humor, confidence or elation, common fear– quotidian fear, the kind elicited from a shrieking cat or late-night knock on the door– soon evaporates. Grief is a permanent fear. It’s an awareness that things will never be the same, that someone– maybe a person you loved more than