Monday 11 June 2007

Phantasm II (1988)

Just a quick post to say, watch this film - its great!

For anyone not familiar with the original movie, there's an evil tall man that runs the crematorium. He takes all the dead bodies, reanimates them and at the same time reduces them to the size of midgets (which look identical to Star Wars Jawa's!). He then uses the midgets as his slaves who work in another dimension, doing what I'm not quite sure. Oh yeah, the crematorium is guarded by these weird floating orbs with strange killing attachments.

The second film follows the only two survivors of the first movie. Its a revenge fest filled with a tonne of action, some dueling chainsaws, gore, extra gore and a bit more gore.

Anyone with a good eye for detail will notice the reference to Evil Dead's, Sam Raimi (his ashes are sealed in a bag during the cremation scene).

Just watch it if you like Evil Dead and other similar movies.

Nice!