This wasn't the box office hit Universal imagined and Coscarelli was able to return to his low-budget roots for 1994's Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead. Upping the gore and action, 1988's Phantasm II finds Mike and Reggie (the former now played by James LeGros, at the insistence of the studio) hitting the road in another attempt to stop the Tall Man's schemes. So it remained until the late '80s, when Universal (on the hunt for new horror franchises) bought the rights and offered Coscarelli $3m (ten times the original's budget) to make a sequel.
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Fun as it is (and make no mistake, it's an absolute blast) it's really not the sort of movie that was crying out for a sequel. Written and directed by Don ' The Beastmaster' Coscarelli, 1979's idiosyncratic Phantasm is a wildly imaginative mish-mash of horror and sci-fi concepts, where notions of coherence and logic play second fiddle to cool ideas, gory gags and sudden scares. The fact that a Phantasm franchise exists at all is one of the great mysteries of the horror genre. So begins a decades-spanning battle for the fate of our planet… With the aid of his older brother Jody (Bill Thornbury) and friendly ice-cream seller Reggie (Reggie Bannister), Mike discovers that a mysterious undertaker he dubs the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) is robbing graves and transforming the corpses into an army of murderous dwarfs. After a spate of mysterious deaths in his home town, 13-year-old Mike (Michael Baldwin) becomes convinced that strange things are afoot at the local mausoleum.
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