# Fantasme (1979)

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**Original title**: *Phantasm*
**Runtime**: 89 min
**Genres**: Horror, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Don Coscarelli
**Written by**: Don Coscarelli
**Starring**: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester, Angus Scrimm, Terrie Kalbus

> *If this one doesn't scare you...you're already dead!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Midnight mortuary heat, a silver sphere hums through the halls. A teen tracks the Tall Man’s gliding shadow across tombstones, dodging spheres that split skulls. Don Coscarelli drapes ‘70s drive-in dread with improvised SFX.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, dread, surreal

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