# Phantoms (1998)

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**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
**Directed by**: Joe Chappelle
**Written by**: Dean R. Koontz
**Starring**: Ben Affleck, Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Nicky Katt

> *For centuries they told us the terror would come from above. We've been looking the wrong way.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Snowfield, Colorado in winter. A hush broken only by a snowplow’s idle growl.

Five strangers converge on a deserted lodge as the town outside vanishes without trace.

Lynchian dread in a Carpenter chassis.

**Mood tags**: body-horror, dread, gut-punch

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