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The Dark Territory
The Funeral Is About To Begin In Phantasm
A cemetery tryst turns to murder, a mortician moves like a machine, and a silver sphere drills through the silence—Phantasm doesn’t explain itself so much as possess the room. We dive headfirst into Don Coscarelli’s cult classic to track how grief, sci‑fi textures, and handmade horror combined into one of the strangest and most enduring films of the late 70s. Angus Scrimm’s Tall Man commands the frame with a mechanical menace that suggests android, alien, or something far worse, and we follow his trail through marble corridors to a humming portal and a red-sky dimension that feels like a fever-dream Mars.
Along the way, we unpack the film’s Dune fingerprints—the box of pain, fear as a focus tool, the tuning fork setup—and how sound design does heavy lifting as story. That tonal hum in the mausoleum isn’t just mood; it hints at resonance as control, drawing lines to Reggie’s guitar moment and the twin poles that slice open reality. We break down the iconic sphere attack, why its reflective surface makes the kill doubly cruel, and how practical effects and smart editing sell danger without digital help. From the hearse chase to the yellow ichor that proves the Tall Man isn’t entirely human, every set piece feels tactile, risky, and utterly memorable.
And then there’s the ending—the “it was a dream” swerve that either deepens the film’s portrait of trauma or undercuts its stakes. We wrestle with both reads, weighing the idea that Mike’s mind reframed loss as cosmic war against the possibility that the Tall Man simply thrives where logic breaks. Either way, the mirror moment lands, and the myth stands: Phantasm endures because it’s less puzzle box and more bad dream you can’t shake. Cue up the episode for a spirited breakdown of lore, craft, and legacy, plus a few laughs we probably shouldn’t have had. If you dig smart horror talk with zero fluff, subscribe, share with a fellow cult cinema fan, and drop your take: does the ending make it richer—or wreck it?
My asshole's on fire. Hippy Joel.
SPEAKER_01:Hippy Joel.
SPEAKER_00:What's the meaning of happiness? I can't seem to find it myself.
SPEAKER_01:Death. Death is a meaning of happiness.
unknown:Dude.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, Mike is one of the main characters in this movie. Mike. Everybody likes Mike. Yeah. He's uh Mikey likes it. Mikey likes it. Mikey likes it. Mikey will eat anything. Apparently he will. Fucking dwarf dick. Dwarf dick? Yeah. Mikey has a dwarf dick?
SPEAKER_00:No. No. He's gonna eat a dwarf dick. Jesus. The dwarves and phantasm. This is gonna be a wild one, folks. It's fantasm. Just letting you know, yeah. It's a wild movie.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. This is one of those movies that you should just you should see it at least once.
SPEAKER_00:It's like required viewing for like anybody between the ages of 13 and 60.
SPEAKER_01:If anything doesn't make sense in this movie, just go with it. That's what I learned. It's a good party movie. Yeah. There's a lot of dream logic in this that kind of veers into weird places. Yeah. Yeah. It's good though. It's uh it's one that I'm embarrassed to say I hadn't seen until last night.
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SPEAKER_01:Surprised that's not taken already. Alright, and scene. Welcome to the Dark Territory Podcast. I'm Sean. I'm Brandon. Each week we dive into the films, music, and books that feel their passion for everything dark, mysterious, and strange. There it is. This week we're discussing the 1979 horror classic Phantasm. Oh yeah. This is a movie that I am embarrassed to say I haven't seen yet, but yeah, I know. Laugh it up. But I have to say, it was worth the wait. This was a good one. Oh yeah. This had all the stuff, man. This was like a it's one of those movies that's got some camp in it.
SPEAKER_00:It's like a smorgasborg.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, dude. It's a full meal. You got flying silver spears with blades in them. You got tall dudes that look like they're the like a mortician from hell. That's fucking great. He technically is, but that's well no, he's from I guess I can't spoil it. Never mind.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, we spoil all our movies.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's he's technically he's like an alien.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And if you see him in this movie, he acts like an alien.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Angus Scrim, he has a he has a very uh strange physicality to him. He's he was a very tall man. Do we know anything about him like outside of like his films? Like no, he uh he made he took Phantasm and pretty much made it like his own, though. Kind of like that's his his robbery and Freddie. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. A lot of horror actors are like that, like Kane Otter and Jason Voorhees and Gunnar Hansen and Leatherface. It's an iconic film, and you know, Angus Scrimm, I think it he's 99% of why it's so iconic. Oh, yeah. Uh and that look he gives that kind of mean mug where he's like a little bulldog, it's like yeah, yeah. Boy.
SPEAKER_01:He likes to do really like mechanical movements. Yeah. And then he'll just fucking charge you. It's really off-putting.
SPEAKER_00:It's uh I think uh because I read interviews with him back in the day, and he was uh he was talking about how uh him and Don Coscarelli, the director and the writer, they would they would try and they would bounce ideas back and forth. It's like, well, what's my motivation? Why why is the tall man doing what he does? He's like, Well, you're seeding your planet with slaves, you know, and and uh the tall man, he could be an android, he could be a robot. Like he acts like he could be an android, yeah. That's a good point. What do you think he eats? Probably something from where he's from.
SPEAKER_01:He probably doesn't eat like delicacy human food from whatever planet he comes from. Sand. I don't think they have much where they they come from red skies and sand. That's pretty much all we say.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it looks like Mars.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it does.
SPEAKER_00:Like he could be a Martian.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's true.
SPEAKER_00:I turn into a Martian. Yeah. Sorry. I had to slip that in. It's gonna be one of those days, folks. Oh, yeah. We're just letting you know right now. But we love y'all.
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SPEAKER_01:No, all right. So uh this movie starts out like all good movies, good horror movies. Starts out with two people fucking in a graveyard.
SPEAKER_00:Fucking uh this guy Tommy, he's getting on with this fucking hot blonde chick, and uh he looks like Lemmy from Motorhead. He's got that sleazy ass fucking like Wyatt Earth mustache. Yeah, I was thinking about growing one of those, dude. I should have dude. Hell yeah, dude. I'll put that on Instagram, be like, check this out. Look like fucking Ron Jeremy from the 70s. Fuck yeah. Any of you kids don't know who Ron Jeremy is, look him up. Yeah, you look up 70s porn, you'll find him.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, the hairier the better. That guy was everywhere back in the day. Oh yeah. But yeah, yeah, we see him kind of getting it on. They're in a cemetery, obviously, just making out. And then uh Tommy just kind of lays back, he's like, that was great.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and then uh she her face transmorphs into uh this creepy looking old dude that we find out is called the tall man, and then she just shivves him straight up, yeah, just shinks his ass. Then they then he like sets it up and makes it look like suicide because Which is weird the next day, yeah. The next day, fucking uh we see uh we meet Jody and uh and Reggie. Jody and Reggie, and they're going to the Morningside Cemetery for Tommy's funeral, and Reggie's like, I can't believe Tommy's gone, you know, the end of the trio. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Don't they know anything about like hesitation marks and stuff? Like if they were to actually do any forensics when they find out that this guy didn't commit suicide.
SPEAKER_00:I'm just playing devil's asscott. Forensic science was in its infancy in the late 70s. I mean, we not how we know it, it really didn't come into like fruition until like the late 90s, 80s and 90s, 80s and 90s, yeah. Like the X-Files era stuff when technology really started to ramp up, yeah. That makes sense. I mean it it's we've had primitive forensics like fingerprinting and stuff like that for a long time, but yeah, nothing like it is now.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, so yeah, they're they're like, Oh, our friend's dead. It's kind of a bummer. Yeah. You know, they're doing the th their thing, and then I I think Jody goes and walks through the Yeah, he wants to visit his uh his parents' graves.
SPEAKER_00:They're all they're all buried there, and he sees some weird he hears some weird shit going on behind one of the graveyards and behind one of the headstones, and um he sees what a little figure kind of dart behind the the fucking headstone real quick. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I was like, what the hell was that? And then we get uh his brother Mike.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's just tearing ass and through the fucking graveyard. Literally tearing out on his motorbike. It's like have some respect, bro.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I couldn't believe this when I first saw it. I'm like, damn, dude, he's just hauling ass through like weaving in between all the gravestones and shit.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and then um we see uh we see the tall man really quick, and he does some kind of telekinesis because he knocks Mike off his bike. He's like, You're fucking driving around. And did that happen? Not quite.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we we got the way this movie's edited is kind of weird because it does a lot of jump cuts between. Yeah, but we see uh we see Jody and he's he's hearing weird shit in the mausoleum, and uh then all of a sudden he gets a jump scare from the tall man and he goes, The funeral, the funeral is about to begin.
SPEAKER_00:Sir, yeah, sir. And then creepy.
SPEAKER_01:And then Jody's like, Okay, yeah, thanks. Thanks for almost giving me a fucking heart attack. Yeah. And then we see his friend Tommy in the in the casket, and everybody's paying their respects. Yeah. And uh as we see throughout this movie, we see Mike, he's kind of one of those kids that likes to follow his older brother everywhere he goes, and he's doing that right now. He's basically spying on the funeral and and watching them take the casket out of the hurdle.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's watching the procession, you know. I don't I just don't understand why they wouldn't let him be part of it. I mean kid probably knew Tommy too, so it's like, why are you making him I think it's just uh Jody didn't want him coming up there because his parents are buried there. Who knows?
SPEAKER_01:That could be maybe trying to protect him a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, but uh they see uh while Mike is kind of spying later on after everyone leaves, they see the he sees the tall man put the casket back and he picks the whole thing up by himself and just shoves it in. Yeah, yeah, and so Mike is like, what the fuck?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's he's like mouth sips, like, yeah, for real.
SPEAKER_01:What is going on, dude? What kind of caretaker is this?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Or mortician. It's a mortician, yeah, not a caretaker. That would be before they died.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's where the band Mortician got their name from because of the tall man. Oh, really? It's like their favorite movie.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, okay. I can see a lot of people being inspired, especially in like black metal and stuff from the school.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Mortician's the shit.
SPEAKER_01:Mortician. Just one I haven't heard. What's your favorite song? Yes. It's just called Yes? No. Oh all of them. Oh, okay. Mean culture, baby. I see. I'm with it.
SPEAKER_00:I'm not him. All of them. I like every single mortician song. Nice. Um if I had to pick a favorite album, it would probably be uh zombie apocalypse.
SPEAKER_01:Nice song.
SPEAKER_00:Uh or hacked up for barbecue.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, nice. Yeah. That sounds like a cheerful, uh, happy tune. Oh, yeah. Happy album. All the way.
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah. Straight through. Fucking Will Romer, dude. Melodies are for pussies. Nice. Yeah. So uh I'll play you some after we're done. Please.
SPEAKER_01:Definitely. Uh we get Mike. He's walking down the street, passes this uh basically it's I guess it's his friend's mom or grandma is uh a palm reader.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, the hot hippie fucking gypsy chick, yeah. Yeah, the blonde one, yeah. Uh she's a palm reader. Palm reader, yeah. Yeah, yeah, and it's funny because this scene jumps jump cuts too. Because Mike goes in and he's talking to the girl, and um then it it jump cuts to to Joe. It's like a he's talking bleh. Mike is talking about how he's he thinks Jody's gonna take off.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, he's afraid of being in a band.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and um it shows that badass 71 Plymouth Barracuda, dude. That car is so fucking sweet. Oh my god. Black, like jet black. Oh, yeah, it's like it looks like a beast. Oh yeah. And uh I can understand Jody's point of view. I mean, he's a young man, he probably wants to get out and make some money, hit the road, and probably a good way to uh to help support his brother would be to go get a a real job. For real. So he's thinking about sending them to his uh his aunt's house. Yeah, and then we jump cut back to the Mike and the grandmother's house, and um the girl tells him not to worry about it. It's like he's not gonna go anywhere.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, like she knows.
SPEAKER_00:Then he fesses up to going uh to Morningside and the the tall man like messing with his stuff, yeah. And then uh the the the grandmother wants to play some Benny Jesser shit on him. She pulls out the the box of pain. She's like, put your hand in the box. It's like straight out of Dune. Oh yeah. It's like he straight ripped that shit off.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. So yeah, he puts in the he puts his hand in the box, and uh, she's like, Don't fear. Yeah. I will not fear. Yeah, fear is the mind killer. Fear is the tiny death on your mind. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:But uh I'm surprised they didn't put a knife to his neck and say, This is our gummer. For real.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, one false move and you're dead.
SPEAKER_00:This one kills only animals, shouldn't be trespassing in Morningside Cemetery.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, there's a little bit of uh, I mean, it's an obvious not to dune, but you know, he's like But it is, yeah, it is. And Mike is like, Oh, it hurts really bad.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's like, hey, this really hurts. This really hurts.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but he he passes a test and uh they're like She's a human. Uh and so after that, what Mike just leaves? Yeah, and the grandma and this girl can do this creepy laugh.
SPEAKER_00:Like, what a pussy. Yeah, it's like we really fucked with him.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, this is how we roll. Yeah. And then we see uh we see that same girl walking into the uh the morningside cemetery. With with flowers and all being kind of mysterious. Oh, yeah. She's gonna go goth out in the graveyard for a while. Yeah, it's where everybody goes to goth out or fuck or probably do drugs. Kick headstones over, little asshole. Yeah, drive your motorcycle through headstones. My first girlfriend, we made out in the cemetery in those falls. And then there was an earthquake while we were there. Freaked us the fuck out, man. We thought bodies were coming out of the city.
SPEAKER_00:Fucking Thor blessed your fucking union.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So uh then we jump cut to uh who's it?
SPEAKER_00:Jody and Reggie. They're James. Reggie, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, Reggie comes rolling in in his ice cream truck.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Jody's writing a song. It's actually a pretty cool little melody. Sounded really good.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and Reggie comes over with his guitar.
SPEAKER_00:And Bill Thornberry actually wrote that song. It's a real song, yeah. Oh, okay. That he was working on.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I got the feeling that the director was a musician because there's a lot of music in this. Even the score sounds like it was made from a big one.
SPEAKER_00:The music in this movie is awesome. It just screams like 70s horror film soundtrack.
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely. I'm gonna have fun with that one. But yeah, Reggie does this interesting thing. I've never seen anybody do with a guitar. He tunes it with a tuning fork.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and that's pertinent because it's kind of a foreshadowing of what comes into the magnetic vibrations come into play with that later on. Yeah. Yeah. Because a tuning fork is usually used for like pianos and stuff, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's why I was like, that's weird. I've never seen somebody tune a guitar with a tuning fork.
SPEAKER_00:Because I've always tuned by ear.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I tried to do that, and then and then I actually listened to it on like I hit a piano can, like, oh, I was way the fuck off. But yeah, we jumped to uh what is it, Mike's friend, the girl that that we saw earlier. She's uh walking into the mausoleum. And it's interesting, it's like the tall man has like uh almost like some sort of psychic powers over people, like where he can twist reality and and kind of bend people to his will. So almost feels like she's in this trance, like a sacrifice. I think it's those it's those tuning bar things.
SPEAKER_00:It's probably hitting your pineal.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. Yeah, yeah. So she opens this the door that we you know, it's like the secret door, and it's got these almost looks like Greek statue heads or something above it. I don't I don't know if those have any sort of meaning. But yeah, she opens the door and and this white light shines over her, and she goes in, and then we just basically zoom out to the exterior shot of the cemetery, and we hear a scream, which uh accused us then that she got she got taken out. She got taken out. Yep. Another sacrifice for the tall man and his army of slaves.
SPEAKER_00:Well, we haven't got to that part yet. Yeah, but we spoil all our movies.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So yeah, then we go back. I think eventually we'll probably have to stop doing that.
SPEAKER_01:What's uh spoil them as we go?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Or you know, you know. These movies are all pretty old and rare, so if you haven't seen them, that's your problem.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. If if you kind of know what's up, you should probably just stop this and watch it first and then come back and listen to us. Yeah. Or listen to us in the background while you watch it. That'd be a trip.
SPEAKER_00:Play MST3K. Yeah, for real. So I'm not Tom Servo, though. Yeah, play us backwards, see what happens.
SPEAKER_02:Satan, Satan, Satan.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Satan is your father.
SPEAKER_01:What is that place? It's called Oh, okay. So the Dunes Cantina is the bar. Again, another nod to Dune. But we see uh we see Mike's brother, uh Jody, his his car is parked outside the Dunes Cantina.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's trying to uh he's cruising for some action.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, he finds it. And Mike is being a creep again. Yeah, he he's always peering through windows and shit. Wherever Mike is, or wherever Jody is, Mike is.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's pulling, he's pulling Sergeant Howie. He's just like looking at it's like, hey, what's going on?
SPEAKER_01:For real. What's going on? Except for in this case, he's looking for debauchery. Yeah, he's not looking to stop it.
SPEAKER_00:He's not he's not looking to stomp it out, he's looking like, hey, I want to get in on this shit too.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And then we see uh didn't fucking spy on like their older brother making out with a chick back in the day, though.
SPEAKER_01:I don't think I ever did, but my brother would always tell me about it afterwards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then we see uh uh Jody's talking to the mysterious woman that we saw earlier.
SPEAKER_00:He uh he hits her up and she's like, Yeah, let's go.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, she's down. So Mike uh is being a creeb, following him through the graveyard. Oh yeah. And uh Jody and the mystery woman, I guess the the lady in lavender is what they call her in the script. They're making out, and uh and then uh Mike starts hearing these weird noises in the graveyard.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he gets attacked by one of the dwarves, one of the dwarves, yeah, comes out of nowhere, runs straight at him. Yeah, he's terrified.
SPEAKER_01:He runs out in the open, and this is hilarious. They got uh fucking Jody's got the girls.
SPEAKER_00:He's got panties in his mouth. He's like, Oh shit, that's what the heck? Yeah, yeah. So he goes running after him. Yeah, and he's like, What the fuck's wrong with you, man?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I'm trying to get laid. Yeah, why are you following me? First of all, dude, do we do we need to get you help? Maybe you need to get laid, and this is uh this is part of the problem. Then he uh he Mike tells him, he's like, There's something weird going on around here, and so you know, he basically gives his brother the keys to the car. He's like, dude, I'm gonna go try to finish this thing. Yeah, you take off, you take off, and I'll meet you at home.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, she's gone.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, he goes, uh Jody goes back to where the girl was and she's split, you know, because she's the dude. She's the tall man.
SPEAKER_02:So it's like, oh, I didn't score. Yeah, boy.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And uh so then we get a nice shot of uh Mike back at home, just it's kind of like a little dream sequence where he's he's asleep in his bed, and uh and then all of a sudden they kind of the camera zooms out and we see the tall man hovering over his bed with the graves behind him.
SPEAKER_00:Like the the dead bodies to come up and attack Mike, it's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, and they pull him in and he screams, and that's that. Then he wakes up, it's the next day, and uh yeah, and then uh and Jody goes back to uh Dune's cantina.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's talking to the bartender, and you know, the bartender's like, hey, what happened last night? You get lucky, and and Jody asks him, he's like, Hey, did that chick come back in here? He's like, he's like, Nope. And he's like, I took her up to Morningside, and he's like, The cemetery? Yeah, it's like, you know, like an old bartender be like, fucking kids these days, man. Swear. Yeah, but Mike's following him again and walks past the cars, like looking in. It's like, yeah, okay, he's right there. It's like he's stalking his fucking brother.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, dude. I feel you get a grip, bro. I feel bad for Mike up until I see him just stalking his brother all the time. I'm like, this guy's kind of a creeper, man.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's like you need to find your own devices, man. You need to relax a little bit. Yeah, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So anyway, we see Mike, he's uh loafing around, sucking on a lollipop, I guess. Yeah, that's what that's what he's gonna do.
SPEAKER_00:Being a bum, trying to find money in a fucking in a payphone, yeah. And then he looks at the city.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's like, dude, you you are you putting it together yet?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, the fucking clothes he wears are like threadbury. I think you he wore the same jeans throughout the whole fucking movie. Oh, yeah, yeah, for real. Come on, dude, you're not that broke. You have a nice house. It's gross. Your brother has a badass car. At least wash your one outfit.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, sick fuck.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, if it's a continuity thing, cool, but yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But anyway, he looks over and he sees he sees the tall man out of nowhere, yeah. Just striding, like he's got this really weird gate, marching like a fucking stormtrooper.
SPEAKER_00:Like I said, it's like earlier. It's like he looks like he's marching like a stormtrooper, too. It's crazy. He's like he looks like an android or something, yeah, like not human.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but we get this cool shot where uh Reggie is emptying his ice cream truck, yeah, and there's all of this dry it looks like dry ice, you know, coming. Uh the all this mist and stuff's coming out, and you just see the tall man talking. He stops because it's cold.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Apparently, like where he's from, it's very hot. It's like a different dimension.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, because he kind of does this weird move where he kind of he's like breathes in, kind of does this. Yeah, he stops.
SPEAKER_00:He puts his hands in and he's like, Yeah. And then he it's like he's holding it in and he's got this weird, like wistful look on his face, like he's smiling a little bit, and then he turns around and he just takes off again. Yeah, and Mike is like it's an odd scene.
SPEAKER_01:What the fuck? He Mike is completely beside himself. Yeah, but yeah, then we go back to uh Michael, he was working on the that badass muscle car.
SPEAKER_00:Fucking that car is so sweet.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but he's being kind of an idiot because he's working on it really unsafely, things all jacked up alone. Yeah, anybody that knows you never work on a car like that by yourself. Fuck no, especially if you're underneath it, especially if there's little goblins running around trying to at least at least let somebody know.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's like going caving.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, exactly. That's our that's our public announcement for the day.
SPEAKER_00:Don't go caving. The best thing about caving, you don't do it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you can stay above ground if you want to. Yeah, it's uh it's okay. Do you ever watch those fucking caving videos? Oh, it's terrifying, dude.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I I physically get like a sort of thing.
SPEAKER_01:Especially the one like, oh, and then we had to squeeze through this tiny little thing, and we don't know what's on the other side.
SPEAKER_00:And I got out and I never went back. For real. Fuck all that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so Mike he Mike starts to hear the same noises that he heard at the graveyard while he's working underneath his car, and uh he sees something kind of scurry scurry past him. Yeah, and then all of a sudden the the car above him starts shaking. These little fuckers are trying to push this car on him or something. And uh it's like the tall man is sending out minions to like do his will. Yep, it's pretty awesome. Get more bodies, yeah. And so uh so Mike grabs uh one of I guess a hammer that he had underneath as a weapon, and uh he gets startled by his brother and fucking hits him on the foot.
SPEAKER_00:He tries to break his foot, yeah. Yeah, he's like, You hit me on my fucking foot, man. What the fuck? Yeah. So I thought you were one of those things, and he's like, What are you talking about? Yeah, Mike uh Jody's getting really sick of this shit. He's like, Yeah, there's something wrong with you, man. Yeah, and then he just takes off. He's like, I just don't fucking know with you anymore.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And so Mike He's getting sick of it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you can tell he's he need he's at that age, you know, where he needs to go do his own thing and he's tired of his younger brother tagging along. Yeah, you know, it's it's normal.
SPEAKER_00:It's just uh it the uh it it has uh the added dimension of their parents are dead, so I'm sure Jody feels a little bit yeah, yeah, somewhat guilty. It's like I have to leave him with his aunt, but I have to get the fuck out of here. Yeah. They live in a small town, yeah, no job prospects, probably.
SPEAKER_01:No, and only one girl, apparently, in the whole town. And she turns out to be a fucking alien.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, she's a hoe, a hoe alien.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I'm sure if he knew that she stabbed his best friend and fucking killed him, yeah. He'd be like, fuck you, bitch.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Coming after your ass. Yeah, so Mike grabs uh this big ass knife and uh puts it in a little sheath on his ankle and decides he's gonna go and investigate things on his own.
SPEAKER_00:He's gonna go solve the big mystery of fucking morningside.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Why is it called Morningside? I never understood that. Why is wood buying called wood buying? I don't know. Uh yeah, good point. Um, but yeah, Mike goes to the the house, uh the cemetery, finds a window, and decides to just bust it in.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:A little breaking and entering. Yeah. Whatever. That's where TSOL got the idea for Ko Blue from. Oh, really? They busted into a fucking mausoleum and they fell on top of a fucking dead body. No shit. Yeah, that's where that song kind came from. That's wild. Yeah. Damn, dude.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. That's fucking crazy. All right. So Mike goes in, grabs out his lighter, puts it on full blast so he can see, I guess. And he's uh he finds these uh finds where the caskets are basically. It's like a showroom for caskets. And uh Oh, he's hiding in one. Well, he hides in one because he hears something coming, someone coming, and it's a care caregiver, whatever, the groundskeeper, I guess, comes rolling in and he's he uses his lighter to kind of keep the the casket from closing all the way. Yeah, so he can fucking breathe. Yeah, it's like they won't see me.
SPEAKER_00:And uh yeah, he sees the groundskeeper kind of walking towards him, you know, thinks he's gonna get caught, and then the tall man, you know, intercepts, comes in, and yeah, and he doesn't even say anything, he just points over there, and the I think the the the caretaker is under his spell.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, he's definitely got him under his spell. But what a voice it is. Fuck yeah, dude. It's fucking boy. You know, I can imagine seeing this in a theater and it just fucking booming.
SPEAKER_00:It was a big hit on the drive-in circuit. Oh, yeah. This was very popular in drive-in theater.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sure I'm sure the anytime people were making out in the graveyard, people were making out for real and cars. Fucking A right.
SPEAKER_00:It's great. Windows are all steamed up. Steamed up, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:What was the movie about? I don't know, but I had a great time.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know. Then you got guys like Killjoy from Necrophagia. It's like, uh I'm here to watch the fucking movie.
SPEAKER_02:Can you guys calm down?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, get a room. That was a that's a that was an actual quote from him. He's like, uh, I didn't even want to make out. I came, I want to watch the fucking horror movies. That's awesome. Yeah, hell yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But uh, yeah, so Mike uh evades detection, goes into the mausoleum, and uh looking around. And this this set, I guess it's a set. I wasn't sure at first, but you brandy, you said it's an actual set.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they built it in a warehouse in uh Los Angeles.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it looks great. It's got all this marble.
SPEAKER_00:It looked fucking real.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00:It wasn't real marble though, that was fake.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. And I mean, could have fooled me. Yeah. I mean, I'm no expert, but it looked it looked solid.
SPEAKER_00:It looked like fucking, yeah, Venetian marble.
SPEAKER_01:It looked fucking real. Yeah. Yeah, but Mike the magic of movies. The magic. It is magic.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, it's magic.
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, we get Mike. Uh Mike shows up at that mysterious door with all the the heads uh above it. And um then he hears this weird thud, thud sound. And that weird droning kind of buzzing sound. And then we see the coolest coolest thing in the world is this fucking silver sphere. So yeah, I don't know where comes the uh the silver sphere. This is an iconic scene in this film. This is the thing when I was a kid, and I saw this thing in all the trailers where this silver sphere comes out of nowhere and it's got this these blades that come out. Scared the shit out of me, man. I I didn't want to see this thing.
SPEAKER_00:No. I mean, that's yeah, I think uh if you quiz any horror fan that's older asks what's a scene that scared you in a movie, they probably quote one of the this scene. Oh yeah. I wouldn't doubt it.
SPEAKER_01:No, and this thing comes tearing through it. Oh yeah, and uh I didn't realize that those blades were kind of more at an angle on each side, yeah, like a trident. Yeah, I thought it was gonna go straight into someone's noggin, but this thing actually, it's interesting, it's kind of sadistic the way this thing's designed because it'll hook into your head, and since it's reflective, you're basically watching yourself get killed by this thing. Yeah, that's pretty wild. I didn't think about that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and then it drills a hole in your head, yeah, basically exsanguates you, it sucks all your blood out.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. So it goes uh the the caregiver grabs Mike and it's trying to like hold him so that so that the I guess Mike is the one that's gonna get it, but instead this thing goes after the caregiver, goes straight into his head.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think it just goes on a forward trajectory, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It hits whatever and it's way because it's like a sentinel, it's like a guardian. It's like a little guard dog. Yeah, yeah, it goes after whoever's closest. And uh yeah, this thing goes to town on the guy, just like sticks into his head and drills, and then it's got this little hole in the back where the blood just kind of spurts out. Yeah, it's a great effect. Oh, dude, it's yeah, it was a killer scene.
SPEAKER_00:It's not really it doesn't really go into what those actually are till I think the third movie.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Which I'm okay with it just being a mystery to be honest.
SPEAKER_00:They're like they're sentient though.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah. Don't spoil it for spoil it for everybody.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, there's like uh they're like constructs, like little homunculi. Like really? Yeah. The tall man makes them and fucking like sends them forth. Does he have all are there more of them? There's tons of them, dude.
SPEAKER_01:No, no, they're not as special.
SPEAKER_00:You're not gonna watch any of them any more of them anyway. Yeah, you're probably right. You're probably right.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so then Mike gets up and uh turns around and there's the tall man just standing there. And uh and he they do this kind of synchronized walk where they walk towards each other, yeah, almost like they're in a trance.
SPEAKER_00:He's like daring him to like walk closer to him. Yeah, I would I'm sure. I'm sure if uh if Mike had taken a step back though, the tall man would have kept walking forward. Yeah, I'm not scared of you.
SPEAKER_01:This guy's like the Terminator, yeah. There's no stopping him. Yeah, then he he just comes tearing ass after Mike, just comes running at it.
SPEAKER_00:It's funny the way he runs.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, because he's so lanky and tall. It's like, what the fuck? It's almost it's almost like less scary as soon as he starts running.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I like him better when he's gonna be like, it's almost like yeah, it's almost like a care, like a cartoon, you know. For real.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and so uh Mike's able to kind of barricade himself in this room that where he came from originally, and uh uh the tall man's hand kind of comes reaching through.
SPEAKER_00:He's just kind of like waving, like, hey, uh can you help me out? Yeah, just hand it.
SPEAKER_01:Just open the door, we'll talk about it. Yeah, it's like my hand's kind of stuck, bro. Sorry about the silver sphere thing. Let's let's look past it. Yeah, you know, we can talk. But yeah, uh, that's when Mike decides to break out his big ass Rambo knife. Cuts his fingers off. Yeah, it's hilarious. And this blood, like it's yellow, and it looks pretty gnarly. Looks like pus. Yeah, gross. And uh the dude's fingers are kind of moving a little bit on the floor. And it's for some reason, this is where like it feels like dream logic is is working its way in the it's like an evil dead finger, yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's kind of comical, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:But Mike decides to not scary at all because it looks fake as fuck.
SPEAKER_01:It does. Yeah, so so Mike grabs one of the fingers, I guess, as proof of of what he's experienced.
SPEAKER_00:He puts it in a little like matchbox and he's like, Okay, now I have proof.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. And then uh as he's trying to make his way out out the window, that's when one of the dwarves comes at him.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, two more dwarves are like I think it's two of them. They attack him again.
SPEAKER_01:Yep, try to grab him, and then they they just get his shoe, I think.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Um, they have like these gnarly little looking evil claws, yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_01:Really messed up looking. For real. I wouldn't want to run into one. No, I mean, I guess they're reanimated dead bodies, so they're gonna be fucking gross. But yeah, then we see uh we jump cut to uh to Mike just passed out on the stairs, and he's got his little box with a finger.
SPEAKER_00:A fucking shotgun. Yeah, fully loaded shotgun. Jody comes down, he's like he's like racking out all the shells, and he's like, What the hell? Thank God it was loaded for bear it, is yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You shouldn't have a fully loaded shotgun in your hands while you're asleep. Yeah, that's just a big thing.
SPEAKER_00:You might have a nightmare and like this ain't numb, kid. You don't have to for real armor for sleep.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah, so uh Mike tells uh Jody what's what's in the box or shows him you know he's like what's in the box, and he's like, Okay, I believe you know, yeah. He just looks at it and then closes it and he's like, Okay, I believe you know, yeah. And uh and then then that's that's when this is one of those weird scenes again. The fly monster. Yeah, the fly monster is kind of like okay, guys.
SPEAKER_00:Why? He just throwing shit against the wall to see
SPEAKER_01:What sticks. Yeah, this is one of those moments. Yeah.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Mike opens the box in his room and out comes this fly monster. That's I'm sorry, but it's not scary. No.
SPEAKER_00:And it's pointless. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. But hey. But hey, kudos for for Mike, uh or the kid that plays Mike. The acting, where he's wrestling with this empty jacket down the stairs, and then uh, you know, his brother comes in and tries to help him out. Yeah, what's going on?
SPEAKER_00:Uh they put it down the fucking garbage disposal. Yeah. And then Reggie just walks in, like, hey, what's up? What's going on? What's going on? Hey, uh, hey Mike, you want to come work crowd control for all the kids getting out of summer school? It's like, hey, what the fuck's going on?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Why you guys act so weird? Yeah, he he's starting to he's starting to finally catch on that something's happening.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And then the thing comes out and attacks again.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And Reggie's like, what the hell is going on? Yeah. He says it just like that too. It's like, yep. There's a fly monster. Can't you see it? Duh. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Come on, man. Yeah. You gotta catch up. Yeah. So yeah, uh Jody stabs it a few more times and throws it down the the uh the sink. Yeah. And then I think it's finally dead. But then they cue him in, uh cue Reggie in on what's what's actually happened. Yeah, you know, so now he's he's a part of this whole thing. And so that's when Jody goes to check stuff out at Morningside. Yeah, and he he he has this hilarious conversation about guns. Yeah. He's like, now remember, you don't want to aim a gun at a man. Unless you're gonna shoot him. Yeah, unless you're gonna shoot him. I mean, I mean, yes and no. I don't know if I tell a 13-year-old, shoot to kill. It's uh it seems like a bad thing.
SPEAKER_00:That's how it was back in the day, though.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's just uh later on we see how Jody handles a gun and he basically shoots at anything that moves.
SPEAKER_00:Well, so you waiting circumstances, you know.
SPEAKER_01:True, that's true, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So he goes up to Morningside and he's checking stuff out. Uh he gets attacked by one of the lollipop guild. Fucking is that what we're calling him now? Yeah, that's the lollipop guild, bro.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. And so he's he's like, fuck this. He gets out his gun.
SPEAKER_00:He gets that fucking 9-11 now and just shoots the fucker right off his back.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, like what the he aims it literally right above his head. I'm surprised he didn't shoot himself. It's like Jesus Christ, man. What are you thinking?
SPEAKER_00:Pulling an R Bud Dwyer.
SPEAKER_01:It's like yeah, so then he fucking bat.
SPEAKER_00:This might hurt somebody.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so he gets he gets in, he tears out of there, you know, and then he's getting followed by uh the tall man in the hearse. Yeah. And so gets out his gun, fucking aims to kill, and nothing, because it's empty. There's nobody actually driving it, right? Yeah, and so it just you know drives past.
SPEAKER_00:And then uh he sees lights coming back, so he thinks tall man's coming and he's getting ready to shoot again. Then he finds out that it's it's his brother coming to rescue him.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah. So they hop in or he hops in the car and then they take after the uh the tall man, and uh Jody, he's like, I'm gonna I'm gonna get this guy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, says something. It's like fucking the chase, it's like the beginning of the the movie Mad Max. Yeah. Where all the cops are chasing the toe cutter. It's like, yeah, I'm gonna ram him. I'm gonna ram him. He's like, I'm gonna blow him away. He's got this fucking the hog leg and he's gonna shoot him. It's like yeah, I love that shit.
SPEAKER_01:Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Mad Max, dude. Well, yeah, original one.
SPEAKER_01:Fuck yeah, dude. That's fucking classic. Hell yeah. But yeah, so he shoots uh he shoots at the hearse, the hearse goes and plows into a tree. And it blows up, yeah. So it's a great shot. Well, no, not quite. Because it uh Reggie shows up at the scene. Oh, that's right. And then they they both look inside the hearse and they discover that it's Tommy that was driving this thing.
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Because Tommy was reanimated, yeah. Tommy was turned into one of the one of the slaves, the tall man.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's really creepy looking too, because he's all gray looking and yeah, he's got sores and shit all over his face.
SPEAKER_01:And so uh, you know, it's it's convenient that uh Reggie has an ice cream truck because they're like, oh, I guess we'll just throw him in. Put him on ice, yeah, put him on ice, make sure he stays fresh.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and then he asks us like this thing ain't gonna leak all over my ice cream, is it? It's probably yeah. It's like it's not all about you, Reggie. Come on, man. Yeah, take one for the team.
SPEAKER_01:Come on, yeah, be a team player, man. Yeah, so uh Reggie, Reggie drives back to the house. I guess the shit's scared out of him by Myrtle, whoever that is. Who's who is Myrtle? Their house the woman. Oh, okay. Yeah, she just comes out of nowhere.
SPEAKER_00:Jesus Christ, you almost gave me a coronary. Yeah, Denver Myrtle. Yeah, don't ever do that to me again. Yeah, I'll dock your pay.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and so they all they all meet up at the house, I guess.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and they're trying to figure out like what they're gonna do. Yep. They decide to drop Mike off at uh Sally's place. The it's like uh the antique store owner, right? One of their friends.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's where Mike makes uh an interesting discovery.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and Mike is mike's looking at all her weird shit, and he sees a picture of the tall man, but it's like animated, and he's fucking he's like, Whoa, that's weird.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and then it does that thing where it as it's zooming into the guy's face, he turns and looks directly into the camera. So it's like looking directly at him.
SPEAKER_02:What are you looking at, boy? Boy, boy. Gotta stop doing that.
SPEAKER_00:Oh no, fuck it. I'm gonna do it all the time. No, doing it, man. It'll become our bit. It's a new bit. Reggie is uh he's driving back and he hears the dwarf waking up and he's like, Oh shit.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, dude. That would scare the shit out of me.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and uh and Mike, he's just got a really weird feeling. He's hanging out at Sally's, and Sally says that she's got a bed made for him. He's like, No, you gotta take me home. I got I gotta go home. I got there's something going on, and I have to take care of it. Yeah, so she's like, Okay, you're supposed to stay here, but I guess I can take you home. Yeah. So um, they're driving back, and uh they see Reggie's ice cream truck like flipped over. They see uh then they stop the car and Mike gets out, and one of the dwarves jumps into the back of the car or was in the back of the car to begin with, and they fucking take off screaming, and the girls are like getting dragged off by the dwarves.
SPEAKER_01:And Mike, Mike gets uh taken out through the back of the window, I guess, of the little Volkswagen bug.
SPEAKER_00:So he's left behind. And Mike goes home and Jody locks him in his room. He's like, You goddamn bastards, he's all mad. Yep. He shoves a screwdriver, uh Jody shoves a screwdriver in there to lock him in.
SPEAKER_01:Well, yeah, I mean he knows his brother's got like fears of being abandoned, and he's he's being kind of a dick about it.
SPEAKER_00:He abandons him, exactly. It's like you lock the kid in his room with no defenses, it's like you're a fucking asshole.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, I would agree. Good job. So yeah, Mike, uh Mike runs home. He escaped from all that, finds his brother, and uh you know, they give each they hug each other, and then he goes on about you know, they got Sally and Susie. So when does he lock him in his room? It's like right then, it's right after that. So he goes, I'm not letting you go by yourself, and he's like, You bastard, and then he takes him upstairs and he puts the fucking screwdriver in the door, and then Mike turns into MacGyver all of a sudden and decides, like, oh, just by sitting here, I've got this shotgun shell, I've got a thumbtack, and I've got some tape. I know I'm gonna blow out a door that I could easily just kick down with my fucking foot. Oh, yeah, you get mad enough. No, I mean when you see the thing blow how flimsy that door is after he blows it up, I'm like, dude, you could literally just kick that door down. You don't need to go through all the trouble of blowing it up with a shotgun shell. I'm pretty sure what he did doesn't actually work in real life. Probably not, I don't think, but good on him for ingenuity, I guess. So yeah, Mike blows the door up, takes the uh screwdriver out, goes down the stairs, and uh grabs a gun, and then when he goes to the door, that's when the tall man appears and he's doing this weird thing with his hand, where he's like, What does he say? He's like, I've been waiting for you. Yeah, yeah. And that creepy voice. And he grabs it, he grabs Mike, and basically like with one hand is fucking carrying him out like a fucking cat. Yeah. It's like crazy, dude.
SPEAKER_00:And then we go to back to Morningside. Yeah, there's uh the tall man's taking him back to Morningside, and uh Mike has the gun. He the tall man keeps looking back and like laughing at him and shit. It's funny. And he uh Mike shoots the fucking window out. Yeah, he just bails. Yep, and then uh Jody's in Morningside trying to check on his parents' graves and he looks to see he he has his father's grave out and he's about to open it and he doesn't fucking look because he's he's like he has to be in there.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I thought that was weird. He doesn't look, but he's like it's like if you've already opened it up. It's like just look, make sure. I guess that was gonna be saved for Mike because they don't yeah, they don't show it until after Mike finds out. Yeah, yeah. I thought that was kind of a goofy scene, but whatever. Yeah, so then uh uh Mike goes back to the mausoleum and we get that cool shot of I guess it's from the Sentinel's perspective from the silver.
SPEAKER_00:It looks like how the Terminator looked back in like the first one.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's a cool, it's a cool look. I've always liked it. But yeah, he turns around and the the little sphere comes at him and he's like, Oh god. And then yeah, he thinks he's he thinks his numbers up, and then uh his brother at the last minute blows it up.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's a cool shot.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Cause Jody likes guns. He solves all of his problems with guns.
SPEAKER_00:He's a 70s man.
SPEAKER_01:He is, he's got the muscle car, he uh he likes guns. For real. He'll fuck women anywhere.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's just a regular dude.
SPEAKER_01:He's a full red-blooded American. Yeah. So this is where they go down the hall to the mystery door, and you know, Reggie shows up.
SPEAKER_00:Hey guy. He's just all of a sudden he's like, Hey guys, yeah, hey, the girls are okay, they took off screaming. They're all right. Like uh he straight blindsides and it's like, where the fuck did you come from? What the hell?
SPEAKER_01:That happens a few times, yeah. But uh when they open the door, there's this really cool, like tonal hum. And you know, I wasn't sure if like when I'm first watching, I wasn't sure if that was just a part of the sound design or this was a part of the score or whatever. But it turns out this is just the sound that the that's emanating from this room when you go in and you see all these canisters with these little window slits, like I guess. Yeah. So you can look inside.
SPEAKER_00:It's like uh I don't know if it's uh if it's what that sound is actually trying to portray. Yeah. It says to me, it says that you know that noise is probably to lull the can what's in the canisters into like a fucking like a trance state.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, interesting.
SPEAKER_00:Because if you I mean I'm sure if you heard that fucking constantly, it probably puts you in a trance.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, for sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It's that low it's like good drone music, like a it's like an elf, like an ELF.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, stream low frequency sound wave. Probably fuck you up. As long as it doesn't make you crap your pants.
SPEAKER_00:Fucking brown note. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Boy, I know you boys make you shit your pants. Yeah, so they go That's what I'm into, boy. It's my fetish site.
SPEAKER_01:Anyway, so they go, they go in, investigate these canisters, and then Mike goes uh Mike looks over and sees these two silver poles basically sticking out of this room.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and he's tripping on that because it's it's like okay, it's not obviously not going anywhere, yeah, but it has a purpose. It's like what is that? So he puts his hand, he goes out to touch it, and his hand goes through it, and he's like, What the hell? And there's a cool sound that happens with it, yeah, it gets really kind of sci-fi. Yeah, like like sound compresses. Yeah, he's just like, Oh, I'm gonna look inside it. So he fucking he puts his whole dumb arm in there and gets sucked in. Yeah, and it's obviously an interdimensional portal, yeah, to where the tall man comes from. Yep. It looks like Mars, basically.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's cool.
SPEAKER_00:There's just like a red sky, and you just see all of his little minions, yeah, and you see all these cancers like laying upside down and on the ground and shit, and you see the dwarves kind of like bouncing and walking, and yeah, you realize what they're for, they're there to till their slave labor.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, they're trying to repopulate the planet with all these dwarves.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Which because the tall we don't know if they're a whole race of tall men or if the tall man is a construct of this planet, like he might be a terminator, who knows? Yeah, maybe he was sent forth to to pilfer all of Earth's fucking graveyards for slaves.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know about you, but if I were to choose between their world and our world, I would bring the slaves over to our world and just inhabit our world instead, because there's nothing going on in in his world, man. Yeah, but it might be boring.
SPEAKER_00:It might be a super massive place, and that's just the landing field for where the slaves go. We don't know, they don't explain it.
SPEAKER_01:All right, so anyway, Reggie and Jody pull him out. I for some for somehow Jody already had a grip on his brother before he fell all the way in, I guess. Yeah, because he's able to pull him back in through the portal, and uh, you know, that's when they kind of you know, Mike says what he saw, and kind of they they I don't know, come up with some sort of hypothesis about why that they're low to the ground or why they're crushed or whatever.
SPEAKER_00:It's hot in the gravity, yeah. But if that's the case, why is the tall man so tall?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. Not a lot makes a whole lot of sense in this movie, to be honest.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's like don't worry about it, it's gonna be awesome.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. Like I said in the beginning, you know, don't think too hard about it, just go with it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, some movies aren't meant to be pondered and pontificated on.
SPEAKER_01:Oh man, you just gotta go with it. Some of the best ones are just fucking go with the flow. Go with it, yeah. So yeah, then we we hear that tone die down, the lights go out, and uh this was I thought was a cool, like isolated little sample where he's like, quick, light it up. Yeah, and it's just kind of a cool little like uh beat where uh Mike gets his lighter out, and as soon as he turns it, as soon as he clicks it on, we see one of the dwarves out of nowhere. And he jumps him, yeah. He attacks him, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01:Yep, and uh yeah, there's a struggle.
SPEAKER_00:You know, we hear Reggie, he's like, Mike, Jody, you know, yeah, he's screaming for him, yeah. And then uh in the ensuing power outage, the lady in lavender shows up and she stabs Reggie.
SPEAKER_01:She's like, And there were there's some cool shots of her in the yeah, in some of these scenes. I really I like the way she looks because she she just has this gaze that like whoever that actress is, like she's tranced out or something. Yeah, yeah. You just know that like whatever she's presenting herself as is not who she is. Anyway, yeah, so then Reggie uh gets his epiphany when he sees the two silver poles, he thinks back to the torn tuning fork and uh puts his hands on them. Yeah, and uh basically stops the the lady in lavender and dead in her tracks, kind of pauses her.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they're all they're all under a psychic spell from this sound emanating from the from the bars. Yep. Yep, and then all hell breaks loose. We all have to figure this out as we go because it doesn't tell you anything. No, I mean it it's an it's an odd movie to review because it's just it's just there. So a lot of it is not straightforward and linear, a lot of it Yeah, it'd be like it'd be like trying to review a a David Lynch film.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's like trying to review a racerhead. Yes, that was hard. That was in that and we thought in our infinite wisdom that'd be a good one to start with.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. What the fuck were we thinking? We should have done this one for the first one. Fuck it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Well, we're we're all older and wiser now. Yeah, yeah. I don't know about wiser, but yeah, we're older now.
SPEAKER_00:A month older. Uh seems like we've been doing it for years. Two months, man.
SPEAKER_01:This is we're going on our third month. Really? Can you guys believe that? We're on our third month doing this shit. I hope you're grateful. This premium content that we create for you.
SPEAKER_00:Hey. At least it's honest. It's honest content. It's content. This is how we are in real life. Sometimes we're not as argumentative, but yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Sometimes you just don't get a lot of sleep the night before. You drink a bunch of coffee, and then you have stomach problems. And we have stomach problems.
SPEAKER_00:Here we are. And we look at really disturbing shit.
SPEAKER_01:Well, yeah, but that's like a that's just a good Friday night. Yeah, so Reggie, uh Reggie gets sucked in, or he's what we say is like it's almost like gravity's reversing itself in the room and like all the canisters are flying towards the uh Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:That's probably how they how they get vacated from the room. The the the vibrations send them like kind of shaking, and then the magnetic field sucks them in.
SPEAKER_01:Everything that's in the room. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty convenient.
SPEAKER_00:Pretty ingenious.
SPEAKER_01:You don't even have to touch them. For real, dude. I wish I could do that with a lot of things. For real. Yeah. Anyway. Uh, so he gets out of there. He makes it. Reggie makes it out of the room. And uh, although I I want to know from like the actor's perspective, like when all those canisters are flying, how many of those things actually hit him in the fucking head? Because they were like flying everywhere. They were probably super light, they're probably made out of cardboard. Even oh, you think they were cardboard? I don't know. They look like empty canisters, but they still would hurt. They're like like uh like plastic garbage cans. Yeah, that's probably what it'd feel like. Yeah, so there's like uh basically the weird cosmic storm happening outside. Reggie goes outside and is calling for Mike and and for uh Jody, and he finds uh the woman, the lady in lavender.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, this is when she stabs him.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, she looks up at him and does or no, yeah, she she shinks his ass and then stands up, and then it does that cool thing where he kind of zoom, like you get a close-up of him, and it turns into the tall man. And he's like, tricked you fucker.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, boy, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I like those close-up shots. Then it takes the knife out and uh stands there for a minute, and then um then Michael and Jody find each other.
SPEAKER_00:And Jody Jody knows about the old abandoned mineshaft that's over by the That was a question I had.
SPEAKER_01:So when did the mineshaft come about in this movie?
SPEAKER_00:Because it seemed like a every kid in that town probably knows about the mineshaft in the graveyard. But it wasn't spoken about in this movie.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, that's why I thought I was like, I don't remember hearing about a mineshaft.
SPEAKER_00:Nobody does.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, good. That wasn't just me. Like mineshaft, huh? I mean, he seems so certain about it.
SPEAKER_00:You have to make the fucking story up yourself. I guess it's like a choose your own adventure. Jesus, for real.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so uh they they find Reggie, both uh Mike and Jody find Reggie, and they're like, uh, he's a goner, you can't help him, he's dead, and uh they haul ass out of there. The house kind of disappears or kind of gets sucked into the vortex. I don't know, does something and uh into the void, into the void, it's kind of like uh poltergeist style, just yeah, it's gone. And um that's when Jody goes on this weird singing about the mineshaft. He's like, There's an old mine shaft, and you know, just gotta figure out a way to get him up there. I'm like, what the fuck is going on? Like at this point, I was I was truly trying to go back into the movie. I'm like, wait a minute, what? What's going on with the mineshaft?
SPEAKER_00:That feeling doesn't stop either because the ending really throws you the fuck off. For real. You're like, what the fuck?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah, we'll get to that. So yeah, they uh they guess they devised this plan to lure the tall man into the mineshaft. They use Mike as kind of bait. Yeah, so Mike goes back to the house. Yeah. He's waiting for the tall man. Conveniently, the tall man does show up. He does. He checks the window, first one's empty, checks the second one, and boom.
SPEAKER_00:There he is. There I am.
SPEAKER_01:Does he say anything or does he just come after him?
SPEAKER_00:He just chases after him.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Then you jump cut to uh to Mike walking around the house looking for the tall man, because I guess he just disappeared again. And then he shows up, he's at the front door this time, and he's got a knife. Yep. And he's all ha ha ha. And uh Mike hauls ass out of there. And so that's when he says his line. You play a good game, boy.
SPEAKER_02:You play a good game, boy. But now we end it.
SPEAKER_01:And what'd he say? Yeah, but now the game is finished.
SPEAKER_02:Now you die.
SPEAKER_01:Now you die. Yeah. Boy. Boy. God, I'll never get old.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and then I'm sure it'll get old for our listeners. For our listeners, yeah, for real. Like, are they gonna do it again?
SPEAKER_01:Put it in the comments. Yeah. Yeah, put everyone.
SPEAKER_00:Like you fucking you don't put any comments in anyway.
SPEAKER_01:It's true. They don't. Why don't you guys love us? Why don't you love us enough to just fucking even trolling us? Yeah, troll us. We don't care. Actually, I saw somebody a couple people or we got a couple thumbs down. Sweet. Yeah, a couple. Just two.
SPEAKER_00:On what?
SPEAKER_01:Uh is the skinny puppy one.
SPEAKER_00:Really?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I don't know why. Maybe there's some diehard skinny puppy fans that are like you didn't say it right. You didn't explain it right. Or you know, I don't agree with your assessment of ogre or keys.
SPEAKER_00:It was an honest assessment. It was. Ogre is a brain damaged fucking individual. I don't know if he's brain damaged. He seems pretty psychically brain damaged.
SPEAKER_01:Maybe he did go to the other side for sure a few times. He went to the well maybe one too many times. Hey, I agree with that.
SPEAKER_00:Good artists usually do. Yeah, it's true.
SPEAKER_01:So yeah, these uh the gravestones pop up out of the ground. And then this is when uh Mike goes back to his mantra. Don't fear.
SPEAKER_00:Don't fear. I will not fear.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, thinks back to the box and thinks back to when he was uh back in Dune. Yeah, you know. And uh and he gets stuck in a bog, I guess.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's Mike Muadib.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, right, for real. But yeah, he gets he gets stuck in some mud, fucking hands come out, try to grab him. He escapes, and then he jumps over. Oh no, this is that cool scene where he he uh sees the the lady in lavender and she's just kind of looking at him and he's got his knife out, and he's just kind of like going around her and she's got this creepy looking grin on her face.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's funny uh going back to the Dune thing, because we were talking about it, and I think uh I think Don Coscarelli was more into science fiction than than uh horror films, because you can totally tell that he wanted to make a sci-fi film, but sci-fi is expensive to make. I mean, and this this film cost thirty thousand dollars.
SPEAKER_01:Three hundred three hundred dollars. Oh, but still even even so, three hundred thousand is cheap. Yeah, even back then, I think that was pretty low. Because like Texas Chainsaw was made for what like twenty-eight thousand. Oh, yeah. And most of that cost back in the day, they didn't we didn't have digital cameras, so it's mostly on film.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. That's what they mean by shoestring budget kids. Yeah, that's a real shoe. When you hear that term, that's what that means. Yep.
SPEAKER_01:You buy a house, or do I make a fucking low rate horror film that turns into a classic? Or do I do art? Yes, that's yeah, that's the true definition of a starving artist. Yes, but uh the tall man appears, you know. I guess I guess he was the woman, so he just shapeshifts into his true form. And uh chases after Mike, and then that's when Mike jumps uh over the obstacle. Then we get the tall man who doesn't jump over the obstacle, falls into the obstacle. Plot armor, baby. Yeah, this is the great kind of plot armor, and then because you get all these uh boulders. I guess there is an avalanche that happens conveniently afterwards, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Right into that Mike, uh that Jody pushes over. It's like you're not pushing those rocks, those are like 500 fucking pounds, bro. They're clearly people. I couldn't even pick those up, and I can hit lift heavy, bro. Yeah, man. You're a heavyweight lifter. I fucking lift heavy, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Don't do steroids, kids.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I'm natty, but I don't I don't do steroids. Steroids are stupid. I don't believe in PEDs, man.
SPEAKER_01:Fuck no. I don't think you should compete against anyone but yourself. For real. Go natty or don't go at all. That's right, man. So yeah, the uh basically the the tall man gets sealed up in the in his little hole with all the all the boulders. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And um and then we get the biggest plot armor of all.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, then we get Mike waking up in bed. The egregious sins of a fucking of a shitty ending. Yeah. I've never been a fan of this kind of ending, but no, I don't think anybody is.
SPEAKER_00:No.
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, basically we get you know Mike and Reggie in the living room.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you know, and uh we're having a strange, oddly tender moment together. I thought so too. I'm like, I didn't think that they were that is he close. Is he grooming this kid? For real.
SPEAKER_01:I know you're an ice cream man, but now you're really trying to be a stereotypical ice cream man. Want some candy? For real. Fucking weirdo. Yeah, yeah. Basically, Reggie tells Mike that it was all the dream, and uh you're basically that is Jody's dead.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's in a car accident like a couple weeks earlier, right? And that he this uh this tall man thing is just Mike's way of disassociating from it all. Yeah, and Reggie's like, look, I'll take care of you. We can go on a trip together. It's like that was weird. Fuck me.
SPEAKER_01:I know, go pack your bags, yeah. We'll go on a trip for two weeks.
SPEAKER_00:And then, you know, I'll say that you're my nephew. It's like when we go to rent a hotel room, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so uh yeah, it's so weird. Mike goes up to his room, guess he's gonna pack his bags for this uh this little trip that him and Reggie are gonna take. Yeah, and then what who shows up in the mirror but the tall man? And he just Mike turns around and he just goes, boy.
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah. Oh yeah, he did Beastmaster too, dude. And Bubba Hotep. I remember that. That fucking Beastmaster was the shit. Remember that back in the day? It's like, hey, hey, let's watch some HBO. What's on? Beastmaster's on.
SPEAKER_01:Wasn't Beastmaster like the poor man's Conan?
SPEAKER_00:Hell yeah. Fucking Mark Singer, yeah, hell yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know if I've ever sat through a Rip Thorn Beastmaster.
SPEAKER_00:Nah, Rip Thorn, dude. Oh yeah. I remember that.
SPEAKER_01:How many of those did they make?
SPEAKER_00:Beastmaster?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, didn't they go on to make a bunch? Really? I thought there was at least three. Oh no. That's hilarious. Yeah, so that was his other credit to his directorial resume.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Bubba Hotep is pretty good too, though.
SPEAKER_01:Bubba Hotep, that's a funny name. Bubba Hotep, man. Yeah. Oh, is it? Is it really? Yeah. Okay. So yeah, Phantasm. This has been a challenge. This has been a challenge. I'm glad I watched this movie, I'll tell you that. The 4K restoration looks beautiful. Even if you guys are kind of like wishy-washy on the plot or the acting or the dialogue or any of that, it's a beautiful movie to watch. Oh, yeah. And the scenes are very well constructed. And I guess there was a lot of really creative uh editing that had to happen in order for that sphere to look real, like it's flying through the sky. They used like basically what you had in the 70s, which was a fishing line and whatever else, to make that thing look like it's actually flying. And it looked looked like it was hovering in the air. I mean, I didn't see any fake fakery.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Phantasm. Uh it's directed by Don Coscarelli. Yeah. It was released in 1979, cost$300,000. 300,000. Is uh starring uh Angus Scrimm is the tall man, yeah, Michael Baldwin as Mike, Reggie Bannister is Reggie, and Bill Thornberry is Jody. That's the main the main players of the movie. And uh Angus was in all the others every single one.
SPEAKER_01:Every single one. Because he passed away.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he took that and made it his own. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Alright. That ends this episode of the Dark Territory Podcast. Next week we're gonna do Pan's Labyrinth. See you next week. Oh, and don't forget to like and subscribe. Please. Like and subscribe. Just do it.