It’s funny how the older horror movies still remain the scariest in your mind, maybe as I said before, it’s a nostalgia thing, I’m not really sure. From my childhood there are a number of images that stick in my head, the moving trees before that scene in Evil Dead, a man with a chainsaw about to leap out of my cupboard and murder me for a week of sleepless nights, and flying steel balls chasing after you and about to impale themselves in your forehead.
So returns Phantasm to our screens. Through the years of remakes now comes the year of the revisitation. A bit more of a mouthful but basically we’re returning to all those left behind movie series and bringing them back. This time though it’s not just for one, this could be another trilogy, not just that, it might also be from the maker of the originals, and that is good news.
Coming Soon (I’m going to start reading my blog list in reverse!) have the news from the Hollywood Reporter that things are afoot.
New Line Cinema is in final talks with filmmaker Don Coscarelli to bring the cult horror film Phantasm back to the big screen, says The Hollywood Reporter…
…Coscarelli would act as producer on the new version, in which the Tall Man travels from town to town turning the dead into his own army and using his deadly spheres against anyone who opposes him. Mike, who is developing psychic powers, and his brother try to stop him.
The trade says that the project is being developed as a relaunch and as a possible trilogy about Mike’s coming of age.
Phantasm was brought to us by Coscarelli, and he went on to make three sequels. I can’t remember seeing the other three, but I definitely remember that feeling of being scared out of my mind by the Tall Man and those silver, flying balls of his. Deadly they were. That was way back in 1979, and it seems only fitting that the original creator should return to have a crack at it with the more modern offerings available to today’s audience.
Ah nostalgia. Is that what it is? Were the horrors from those days really that good? What were your favourites and what was the essence that made them so good?
