Phantasm
If this one doesn't scare you...you're already dead!
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$300 000
Revenue
$11 988 469
Website
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Paul Pepperman, Dac Coscarelli
Operator
Composer
Malcolm Seagrave
Artist
Kate Coscarelli
Audition
Editing
Short description
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
What's left behind the scenes
- Don Coscarelli said in an interview that he wanted to embody death itself in Verzile.
- Don Coscarelli’s mother worked on costumes and makeup.
- The initial runtime of the film was 3 hours.
- Don Coscarelli's and Reggie Bannister's parents appeared in the funeral scene.
- The roles of the gnomes were played by children.
- The film's screenplay was written in three weeks by Don Coscarelli in seclusion at his mountain cabin.
- The film was shot using Panavision cameras. To save money allocated to him by his father for filming (around $300,000), Coscarelli rented expensive equipment on Fridays, used it on weekends, and returned it on Monday, paying only for one working day of rental.
- The interiors of the funeral home were built inside an old warehouse along with Paul Pepperman – the film's co-producer and a long-time friend of Coscarelli. The exterior of the house was filmed in Oakland, California, at an old Victorian mansion that was also used for the horror film "Burnt Offerings" (1976) and for one of the James Bond series, "A View to a Kill" (1985).
- Scrimm was 193 cm tall. To appear even taller while filming as the character of Tall Man, he wore costumes several sizes too small and platform shoes. His role in "Phantasm" secured him a steady acting career in film and television.
- The film contains several references to Frank Herbert's book "Dune," for example, a bar named "Dune."
- In Australia, distributors were forced to change the film's title to The Never Dead due to a popular Australian sex comedy called "Phantasm" (1976).
- In his interview, Don Coscarelli said that he wanted Verszile to embody death itself.
- Don Coscarelli's mother was in charge of costumes and makeup.
- The film contains several references to Frank Herbert's book "Dune," such as a bar called "Dune."
- The parents of Don Coscarelli and Reggie Bannister appeared in the funeral scene.
- The screenplay was written by Don Coscarelli in three weeks, in seclusion at his own mountain cabin.
- The film was shot using Panavision cameras. To save the money provided by his father for the production (about 300 thousand dollars), Coscarelli rented expensive equipment on Fridays, used it over the weekend, and returned it on Monday, paying the rental fee for only one business day.
- The funeral home interiors were constructed in an old warehouse with the help of Paul Pepperman, the film's co-producer and a long-time friend of Coscarelli. The exterior shots of the house were filmed in Oakland, California, at an old Victorian mansion that was also used for the horror film "Burnt Offerings" (1976) and for one of the James Bond films, "A View to a Kill" (1985).
- Scrimm's height is 193 cm. To appear even taller while filming the role of the character Big Giant, he wore costumes several sizes too small and platform shoes. His role in 'Phantasm' secured him a steady acting career in film and television.
- In Australia, distributors were forced to change the film's title to 'The Never Dead' due to a popular Australian sex comedy titled 'Phantasm' (1976).
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