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Also Known As: Das Böse |
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| Year of first release: 1979 | |
| Director: Don Coscarelli | |
| Actors: Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, Kathy Lester | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Horror, Thriller | |
| Conditions of visioning: 14.01.2018, Cinema am Ostertor, English without subtitle | |
| Synopsis: Mike (Baldwin) is 13 years old and has just lost his parents. He is afraid to lose his brother Judy (Thornbury) and follows him to a funeral, after which Mike witnesses the Tall Man (Scrimm) lifting the full coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate and discovers that the Tall Man, protected by flying spheres, is shrinking dead bodies down to strange dwarves. It is then up to Mike, Judy, and Reggie (Bannister) the ice cream man to stop the Tall man. | |
| Review: This is the January movie of the series Weird Xperience. The story is really disturbing as it drives you in one direction then another about what kind of evil is around. Is the Tall man a kind of crazy professor collecting corpses and building new ones out of it (inspired by Frankenstein)? Is he the devil getting inside your thoughts and dreams? Is he a vampire? The casting is quite good. Angus Scrimm is scary and always at the limit of the human with his weird look. The same with Kathy Lester in her role of attractive devil. The originality is that none of them says a word during the movie. As Hitchcock said to Truffaut, "the better the villain the better the picture". And these villains are damn good! The flying ball is quite superfluous in the story and does not bring any scary effect, to me. |
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Rating: 6 /10
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Phantasm (1979)
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A weird horror classic that I never had the opportunity to watch in fact. Sound intriguing. Anyway thanks to Weird Xperience for offering the possibility for a large audience to see it on a big screen!
ReplyDeleteSome may remember the director Don Coscarelli for more modern productions like John Dies at the end with Paul Giamatti or the excellent Bubba Ho-Tep with Bruce Campbell.