Phantasm II

                                                            

 

         "You think that when you die you go to heaven. You come to us."

 

The film is set a number of years after Phantasm. Reggie is now married to Celeste with a daughter Bonnie. He still drives Jody’s 1971 Plymouth barracuda though!!

A girl (Paula Irvine) awakes and gets out of bed. She runs through to the kitchen and checks that the gas taps on the cooker are turned off. She opens a diary:The book is filled with notes and illustrations. Over the past eight years, Liz has had visions of the future and developed a psychic bond with Mike Pearson. She has also found the Tall Man....which is not good news!! She has seen the events that happened when the last movie ended: with Reggie suggesting a road trip and the Tall Man’s minion seizing Mike. Reggie mounts the stairs and finds the dwarf dragging Mike from the cupboard. He runs downstairs to arm himself with a shotgun. Looking for shells, Reggie opens a locker and a dwarf leaps out onto him. They struggle and Reggie beats it with the shotgun stock. He moves to the kitchen to search the drawers but when he turns around a half-dozen dwarves are advancing around and over the table.....

After a big fight between Reggie and the dwarves...he also avoids the Tall man....and manages to rescue his friend. Liz meanwhile surmises that the tall man comes from another dimension, destroying towns and plundering graveyards to enslave the dead!!

Mike has been in Morningside psychiatric clinic for many years. He was institutionalised due to dreams about The Tall Man (the events of the original Phantasm) that he had been having since his older brother had been killed in a car accident. From his hospital bed, he senses Liz’s pleas for help. To effect his release from the clinic, he lies to his doctor (J. Patrick McNamara) and tells him that his stories were just fantasies and "paranoid delusions", and that they have ended, and that he wants to move back in with Reg and move on with his life. As he hands him his release papers, the doctor tells him to be well and remember that it was all in his imagination.

After successfully tricking his doctor into releasing him from the institution, Mike is discovered digging up graves at a local cemetery that night by Reggie. Mike tells him that the entire graveyard is empty, that The Tall Man is still responsible, and he wants to stop the Tall Man. Mike says that the Tall Man is showing him visions, wanting him to come and that Liz is also drawn to him too. He needs Reggie’s help to save her. He takes Mike back to his house to talk it over. As they arrive, Mike remembers from his dreams that the house will explode, he warns Reggie but they are too late - the house explodes as they're driving up to it. But this time instead of killing the Tall Man's dwarves, the explosion kills Reggie's entire family....and Reggie is not a happy bunny!!!

They pick up the Tall Man’s trail to the north west: a series of ghost towns left in his wake. Heavily armed, they check out Maritoz cemetery. They pick their way through a series of open graves to the mausoleum. The entrance is boarded up so they cut their way in with a chainsaw. Inside they split up. In the preparation room, Mike finds a girl’s naked body on the slab. He investigates a noise and when he turns back, she has gone. Reggie calls and Mike joins him. In the basement, they find a girl hiding beneath a blanket: it appears to be Liz but a gnarled version of the Tall Man’s head emerges from her back and tells them to come east.

Eventually Mike hooks up with Liz....but not before the duo pick up a hitcher....Alchemy....and Reggie takes an immediate shine to her....Cherry comes from the town they are heading to, Perigord, and is shocked to discover that it is like a ghost town. Liz makes a number of shocking discoveries at the cemetery, seeing the tall man draining her grandfathers blood and pumping yellow liquid into other corpses...and she even finds her missing grandmother...who is now a dwarf!! Liz tells Mike that the tall Man wants them as they are different...yet it isn't long before the three of them (Cherry is on her way south) stare into the tall mans dimension.

meanwhile Cherry breaks down...but luckily discovers a hearse and hotwires it...whilst Reggie, Mike and Liz battle the Tall man and his minions.....After an epic battle the three escape and Cherry is waiting for them....they must think themselves extremely lucky to have such a considerate friend!!.....

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Directed by Don Coscarelli
Produced by Roberto A. Quezada
Written by Don Coscarelli
Starring Angus Scrimm
James LeGros
Reggie Bannister
Cinematography 1
Language English

 

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