Review of Phantasm

Phantasm (1979)
6/10
Ummm...heh?? :=8/
1 March 2000
Warning: Spoilers
Um, ok. Well. Ok, see, there's this tall guy from another dimension, see, and he steals dead bodies from their graves and squishes them down into tiny, black-robed killer dwarves, who sort of bustle about & attack people, but who really are carted off to a distant planet in another dimention where they are forced to work as slaves(kind of like Disneyland...). Oh, and also, there's this shiny metal sphere that flies around and drills into people's heads & shoots out all their blood. And, then tall guy(Angus Scrimm)dies, but he comes back all the time, but sometimes he's a blonde woman in lavender with too much blue eye shadow, and if his fingers get chopped off they spurt yellow goo and turn into large, plastic flies that have to get chummed in the garbage disposal(I do hope yer taking all this down...). Rytalin-deprived Mikey, who can never just stay in his room, follows his brother Jody everywhere, even though he already died but can still sing cheesy 70's am-style guitar rock, and Mikey drives and works on a car and shoots guns, even though he's only 13, and he's just like the hero in "Dune" because he has to conquer his fear, according to the mute, all-powerful gypsy who makes black boxes appear and disappear at will. Mikey is upset because his father is dead, even though is casket is empty, and later it turns out that his father is really an ice cream man, who kind of dies, but then really doesn't, and he can sing cheesy 70's am guitar rock just like Jody, who really died in a car wreck & didn't really make the tall guy fall in a square hole & fill it up with styrofoam boulders. Except, he did, after the tall guy got blown up in a car. By Mikey. In a dream. Sort of. They're coming to take me away, aren't they??? :=8(
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