Phantasm III

                                                      

 

             "We Tried To Warn You. If You Don't Get It This Time We're Going To Have

                   To Drill It Into Your Head!"

 

A new Tall Man emerges from the gate and tosses his old, damaged corpse back into his own world. Alchemy reveals her true nature to Reggie and the hearse weaves across the road. Mike and Liz struggle to get out and the hearse comes to a stop. Reggie tumbles out of the cab and then collapses on the road. Reggie watches the hearse set off again. It rounds the corner and explodes. Reggie runs to help but Liz is dead and a dwarf is devouring her face. The dwarf chases Reg and he trips over Mike’s prone body. He picks up the shotgun at Mike’s side and blows the creature away....

Reggie takes the comatose Mike to hospital. The doctor tells Reggie that there has been no change. The sphere in the Tall Man’s hand opens to reveal a small pulsating brain within. A nurse (Irene Roseen) checks Mike’s chart as he twitches in his sleep. She mops his brow and tells him to follow to the light he sees up ahead. He follows other figures toward the light and then a figure moves toward him. It’s Jody (Bill Thornbury). He says he will take care of Mike and show him the way. He tells Mike to go back and stay away from the light but Mike walks on. Then Mike sees the Tall Man waiting ahead of him and he wakes from his sleep....however the nurse is not what she seems!!

Mike and Reggie leave the hospital and drive away in Reggie‘s Cuda. Mike sees Jody standing at the side of the road and leaps out of the car. But Jody is gone and Reggie tells him that Jody has been dead for ten years.....however later on Jody puts in another appearance...yet is it he who has led the Tall man to them??......and it isn't long before Mike disappears.

When Reggie awakes the next day, the gate has gone but a blackened sphere remains. Jody tells Reg to go to Holtsville. He sets off taking the sphere with him. At a gas station, the attendant (Robert Beecher) tells Reg not to go to Holtsville. He says there was a toxic spill a couple of years earlier. When he gets to Holtsville, Reg finds that the town sign has been altered to state that the population is zero. He draws up in front of a parade of derelict shops and spots a young woman Edna (Cindy Ambuehl) looting an abandoned car. She produces a pistol and starts firing it off at random. She lets Reg take the gun but her boyfriend Rufus (Brooks Gardner) floors him with a length of wood. Rufus and Henry (John Davis Chandler) put Reg in the trunk of his ’Cuda and drive him out of town to kill him....yet Reggie isn't that easy to kill!!

After escaping Reggie befriends Tim, and that evening, Tim tells Reggie his story. His father was the town sheriff and one of the first to be taken. At his funeral, the coffin was not covered immediately so Tim waited until dark. Tim’s mother (Claire Benedek) arrived to take him home and together they saw the Tall Man arrive to load the coffin into the hearse. When Tim’s mother confronted the Tall Man, the coffin opened and her husband pulled her in. As the hearse drove off, Tim climbed into the rear and opened the coffin to see his dead mother in the arms of his undead father. Shocked, he leapt through the rear screen to escape. The Tall Man then took the rest of the townsfolk, leaving Tim to live alone.

Reg does some investigating and inevitably ends up at the local cemetery...yet he is soon captured by someone other than the tall man. After a bonding session with his new friends Reggie heads east towards Boulton...learning on the way that the place is a ghost time after an outbreak of anthrax....yet even as they travel they hit trouble and come across a convoy of hearses....inevitably following them.

Later that night Jodie enters Reggie's dream and they are able to fee the captured Mike by opening gates....whoever one gate opened cannot be closed and the Tall Man follows.....losing his hands as the gate eventually shuts. ...however when it comes to the Tall man nothing is that cut and dried....his hands turn into  monsters!!....after disposing of these creatures the next stop is Boulton mortuary....where they discover that the Tall man is amassing an army to conquer dimensions....

before we know it Mike is once again captured by the Tall Man and the rest of them battle with the undead....although Mike makes a shocking discovery about himself which I wont spoil....however by the end of the film Mike has vanished and as we know...the Tall Man is still creating havoc!!

 

            

 

 

 

 

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Directed by Don Coscarelli
Produced by Don Coscarelli
Written by Don Coscarelli
Starring Michael Baldwin
Reggie Bannister
Bill Thornbury
Angus Scrimm
Release date(s) 1994
Running time 91min
Language English

 

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