Michael Baldwin) is pushing him around in a wheelchair, there Reggie confined to what appears to be a mental institution, where his old ally Mike (A. His, but with little to no context, the interchange, while amusing, never really amounts to much.
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Piecemeal approach Phantasm: Ravager takes: there's a showdown with the car's driver once Reggie realizes that the vehicle is actually The whole Barracuda element is indicative of the He is stumbling through a desert, bloodied and unkempt, and is initially accosted by a guy in a Barracudaīefore the inevitable appearance of the deadly flying spheres intrudes on the barren environment.
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Unfortunately, the same helpless feeling that often attends suchĮxperiences may also greet viewers trying to wend their way through a series of vignettes that seem to have little in common other than their gaggleĪn opening vignette in the desert seems to be picking up story threads from the previous Phantasm entry, Phantasm IV: Oblivion (still not available on Blu-ray as of the writing of this review), with ReggieĮvidently on the hunt for The Tall Man. Know we're dreaming and yet don't have the power to wake ourselves up. The entire Phantasm franchise is built upon the whole disconnect that many of us have experienced where we Question that Phantasm: Ravager never sufficiently answers, though it's important to remember that even the first film tended to hedge itsīets as to what was "real" and what was a "dream", as evidenced by the last few seconds of that film, when first one "explanation" and then anotherįollow in rapid succession. Is anything happening in Phantasm: Ravager "the real thing" (so to speak), or simply the imaginary ramblings of Reggie's addled Will probably be willing to overlook the lurching storyline, one which continues to exploit the Phantasm trope of "is this dream or reality?" toĪ perplexing new level, while newcomers to the franchise may be as lost as Reggie (Reggie Bannister) seems to be (in more ways than one, actually-īoth temporally and spatially) throughout the film. "Moishe the Explainer" montage that supposedly knits together various plot points from the previous Phantasm films. Out to be real), but kind of strangely this iconic character is more or less shunted off to the side in what is often a baffling narrative, despite an early Scrimm's The Tall Man isīack yet again in Phantasm: Ravager for what one expects is the last time (unless The Tall Man's "explorations" into afterlife realms turn Write liner notes for classical recordings, some of which garnered him a Grammy Award) as much as he did his film work. Included on Phantasm or the interview also included on thatĭisc, for it's instantly apparent that Scrimm was not exactly starstruck by his own celebrity, and that in fact he championed other things he did (like Interested, I highly recommend doing a bit of research on him, which might include listening to his frequently acerbic snippets on the commentary Scrimm will probably forever be best remembered as The Tall Man from the Phantasm films, but for those Scrimm shuffled off this mortal coil way back in January 2016, which frankly may be far too long ago for our quasi-ADHD attention spans I wonder if any but a handful of horror fans will include the wonderful Angus Scrimm as among those who left us in the Including several celebrity deaths (as if this year was "special" in that regard), with Carrie Fisher's passing seeming to be the straw that broke theĬamel's back, so to speak. There's an "enough already, 2016" meme trending on several social media sites as this review is being written, a response to a series of bad news Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, December 28, 2016 Producers: Reggie Bannister, Don Coscarelli Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm, Dawn Cody, Stephen Jutras, Bill Thornbury He is met with new and familiar faces along the way, and an epic showdown on the Tall Man's home world awaits!įor more about Phantasm: Ravager and the Phantasm: Ravager Blu-ray release, see Phantasm: Ravager Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on Decemwhere this Blu-ray release scored 3.0 out of 5. Reggie must travel between dimensions and discern what is reality in order to confront the mysteries at the heart of a decades-long struggle against evil.
And only he remembers their battled and bloodied past with the Tall Man. He awakens suddenly to find himself sitting in a wheelchair pushed by none other than the elusive Mike! Although overjoyed by their reunion, Reggie is in this alternate dimension an aged and weary old patient in a psychiatric ward. After recovering his 1971 Hemi 'Cuda, Reggie is targeted by two of the Tall Man's Sentinel Spheres and destroys them. Phantasm: Ravager Blu-ray delivers great video and audio in this enjoyable Blu-ray releaseĪfter battling with the Tall Man in Phantasm: Oblivion, a battered Reggie wanders through the desert in search of his missing friend, Mike.
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