

Phantasm
If this one doesn't scare you...you're already dead!
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
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6.5/10
819 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $300K
- Box office
- $12M
- Language
- English
- funeral
- cemetery
- coffin
- portal
- undertaker
- grave robber
- evil
- hearse
- ice cream man
- mausoleum
- tall man
- sphere
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United States of America
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- TheatricalA10 Dec 1979
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR28 Mar 1979
- TheatricalRPHANTASM: REMASTERED24 Sept 2016
- Physical6 Dec 2016
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical18X (original rating)25 May 1979
- Premiererestored version, BFI London Film Festival15 Oct 2016
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalR 18+21 Jun 1979
- Premiere4K version, Melbourne International Film Festival5 Aug 2016
CanadaCA
- Digital / OTT14A1 Oct 2022
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+182 May 1979
BrazilBR
- Theatrical4 Sept 1980
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical4 Oct 1982
EgyptEG
- Theatrical25 Dec 1979
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-18(cut)9 May 1980
FranceFR
- PremiereAvoriaz Fantastic Film Festival15 Jan 1979
- Theatrical164 Jul 1979
GermanyDE
- Theatrical162017, re-rating, uncut / Banned 1991 - 20173 May 1979
Frequently asked questions
Phantasm was released on 28 March 1979.
Audience reviews
2- C
Cat Ellington
2/15/2017
There are tall men, and then there's the "Tall Man". I actually saw the trailer, or preview, if you like, for Phantasm while awaiting the start of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in December of 1978. And I remember the trailer quite well, considering that the upcoming film looked scary as the word itself. The part in the trailer that really got to me was the scene in which the main antagonist, the Tall Man, played by …
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simest
2/17/2017
PHANTASM is an uneven work, too fantastic to be genuinely scary but ferociously unique and fascinating on numerous levels. I think at the forefront there was a desire here to create a warped and entirely original Universe where nothing is as it seems and anything can - and probably will - happen. Logic is quickly cast aside and indeed has no place in the crooked landscape that PHANTASM paints. Into this bizarre, s…
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