"Phantasm: Remastered" and "Phantasm: Ravager" Coming to Theaters in the Fall

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Phantasm: Ravager Cast Details and Teaser Trailer -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
by Clark Collis
Mar 27, 2014


When the surprise news broke earlier this week that a fifth Phantasm movie — called Phantasm: Ravager — was not just in the works but had actually been completed, it raised an awful lot of questions.

Who directed the latest entry in the beloved cult horror franchise about the ghoulish, mysterious Tall Man and his lethal flying spheres? Which previous actors from the series (if any) would be making an appearance in the film?

And when might we see some footage from the first Phantasm movie in 16 years?





EW can confirm that Phantasm: Ravager is directed by filmmaker and artist David Hartman, whose résumé includes the TV show "Transformers Prime" and the Rob Zombie videos 'American Witch' and 'The Lords of Salem'. Hartman also worked on the films Bubba Ho-Tep and John Dies at the End, both of which were directed by Phantasm overlord Don Coscarelli.

Coscarelli himself co-wrote Phantasm: Ravager with Hartman and produced it through his Silver Spheres company with executive producer Brad Baruh.





“I felt it was time to let someone else play with my train set,” said Coscarelli in a statement.

“David and I go back to my film Bubba Ho-Tep. He did terrific visual effects on that, and more recently created a wild animated sequence and some amazing visual effects in my most recent film, John Dies at the End. Our aesthetics are in sync and he’s quite an experienced director in his own right.”



“Having worked with Don before, and being a huge fan of the entire Phantasm franchise, it was a great honor to do Ravager with him,” said Hartman.

“This film is a real turning point in the series. There’s real closure for the core characters that I hope fans will respond to.”









The cast of Phantasm: Ravager includes franchise vets:

Angus Scrimm as The Tall Man
Reggie Bannister as Reggie
Michael Baldwin as Mike
Bill Thornbury as Jody
Kat Lester as The Lady in Lavender



Says Hartman, “We were fortunate to shoot amazing new sequences with horror icon Angus Scrimm. He has terrific scenes with Reggie and Mike that are truly powerful.”









Phantasm: Ravager was shot in and around southern California over the past two years.

“The Phantasm films have been a guerrilla operation for decades now, totally outside of the studio system,” Coscarelli said. “We do them for the fans, and I think Ravager will definitely please them. In the past few years several studios have made offers to remake Phantasm with large budgets, but the fans were very vocal that they wanted the original cast to return and finish this iteration of the story with class.”





Very few plot details have been released – but according to Coscarelli, Phantasm: Ravager includes “an extended sequence on the Tall Man’s home world.”

Plus? “There are also some surprises thrown in that I promise will astonish long-time fans.”





The release date hasn't been announced, but we have the first teaser trailer which you can view right below:

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/03/2...ler-exclusive/

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Never mind, you linked the trailer above.

Looks good, glad all the originals are back, though I wish Don was directing.

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Phantasm: Remastered and Phantasm: Ravager Flying into Cinemas This Fall
by Clark Collis
7/28/16


You wait years for a movie about flying, brain-drilling silver balls to appear on the big screen — and then two come along virtually at once. EW can exclusively reveal that distributors Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to director Don Coscarell’s Phantasm horror franchise, including the recently-completed Phantasm: Ravager.

The company has announced theatrical releases for both that movie, which is the fifth and supposedly final film in the series, and a new version of 1979’s franchise-inaugurating Phantasm, now retitled Phantasm: Remastered.





Phantasm: Remastered will screen in cinemas on Sept. 24 as part of the first Art House Theater Day. Phantasm: Ravager will be released in theaters and via digital HD on Oct. 7.

Phantasm: Remastered and HD restorations of both 1994’s Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead and 1994’s Phantasm IV: Oblivion will also be released on cable and digital platforms that day (although plans aren’t finalized, EW has been told 1988’s Phantasm II will be available to view, as well).

Later in the year, the films will be released individually on Blu-ray and DVD as well as in a collector’s edition set.





“The Phantasm films are iconic, and Well Go is ecstatic to have them,” Dylan Marchetti, SVP of Well Go USA Entertainment, said in a statement.

“We get to bring a classic to a whole new audience with Phantasm: Remastered, and with Phantasm: Ravager we get to bring the die-hard fans — of which I am one — the closure they’ve been waiting for. This is the kind of deal that every distributor dreams of doing, and when you get to do it with a true independent like Don, well, that’s just the extra cherry on the sundae.”





Phantasm: Remastered is a 4K digital restoration of the 1979 film, which was supervised by Coscarelli and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot company. Abrams is a huge fan of the series and named Gwendoline Christie’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens character Captain Phasma after the franchise.

“He saw the movie when he was a kid and it stuck with him,” Coscarelli told EW last year. “I first met him about 15 years ago. He was doing Felicity, and he called me out of the blue, and told me he was a fan. Then, I introduced him to Angus Scrimm, and he put him into the Alias TV series in a recurring role.

The restoration came about because he wanted to show Phantasm at Bad Robot. I told him, ‘Well, the prints are really bad.’ He generously offered to help create a restoration. Obviously that’s an offer we couldn’t refuse.”





Phantasm: Ravager reunites Baldwin, Thornbury, Bannister and Scrimm, who died in January at the age of 89. The film is directed by David Hartman, written by Hartman and Coscarelli, and exec-produced by Brad Baruh.

“It’s a swan song to the series,” Coscarelli told EW. “There’s some new iterations of those brain-shucking spheres and a lot of good stuff that the fans will enjoy. It ties up a lot of the storylines and answers some questions that fans have had.”

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/28...don-coscarelli

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