Brand new factory sealed dvd is a restored and remastered version for the first time ever in HD with a new 5.1 surround sound mix.

A unique and fascinating horror hit with more satisfying surprises than you could find in a dozen other recent offerings. Its a fantasy-horror movie with a science-fiction twist. For many male viewers, who happened to be in their early-to-mid teens when they first caught it, PHANTASM was a wild agglomeration of everything important in life and film:

A cemetery sex scene, muscle cars, a ghostly undertaker, violent death, dirt bikes, a mortuary with a link to another dimension, beer, ghouls, guns, aliens, weird gore, unforgettable flying metal spheres, and cheap laughs. The fact that the most intelligent and resourceful character in the film also happened to be a teenager at 15 (Michael Baldwin) gave it additional appeal.

Jodie (Bill Thornbury) and his younger brother, Mike (Baldwin), relocate to a small town where they attend the funeral of one of Jodie's old buddies. Mike begins noticing strange events in the local cemetery, Morningside, which usually involve the sinister caretaker (Angus Scrimm), whom Mike dubs "the Tall Man". Mike already suffers from anxiety over the death of his parents, and he harbours fears that Jodie will take off and desert him.

After dealing with rampaging robed dwarves and other odd occurences, Mike decides he's had enough and sneaks into Morningside after hours, where he has a very close encounter with the Tall Man. Mike manages to sever and hold on to one of the Tall Man's fingers, which continues to ooze and spew yellow glop. Mike shows the finger to Jodie, who, along with plucky ice cream man Reggie (Reggie Banister), decides to help Mike get to the bottom of this bizarre mystery.

Scrimm quickly became another horror icon (like Freddy, Jason, etc.), thanks in no small part to his creepy agents of death: the unforgettable flying metal sphere. The sphere imbeds itself into a victim's face with jagged spikes, drills a hole through the skull, and causes all his blood to gush out a hole on the other side! Here was a film willing to play fast and loose with its Gothic elements, instead of typing them into the same old tired format of the hero gets the girl and the monster getting the gate. So popular was the movie that it has inspired 4 sequels so far.