Phantasm 4: Oblivion

Starring:A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Bill Thornbury, Heidi Marnhout, Bob Ivy, Angus Scrimm, Christopher L. Stone, Chloe Kay, Sylvia Flammer, David Gasster, Sasha Kassel, Aidan Kassel, Eric Avary, Andy John, George A. Craig, Steven C. Kassel, Robert Gates (II), Todd Mecklem, Jason Jacobs, Michael Perkins
Director: Don Coscarelli
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Best of the series to date
The Fourth Instalment And A Major Disapppointment !
what cares about plot
Lacks Continuity
IT'S JUST THE WIND...

Phantasm 4: Oblivion
Starring: A. Michael Baldwin , Reggie Bannister , Bill Thornbury , Heidi Marnhout , and Bob Ivy
Director: Don Coscarelli
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 0792846451
Release Date: 2000-08-01

Description

Brace yourself for a journey beyond your worst nightmares as the Phantasm saga reaches its terrifying climax in a horrific explosion of gut-wrenching battles, lethal flying spheres and a spine-tingling quest to discover, once and for all, the secret of the mysterious Tall Man. Including outtake footage excised from the bone-chilling original, Phantasm: Oblivion is a nerve-shattering thriller from start to finish! For years, the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) has waged a gruesome war against humanity, slowly populating the world with his undead legions. To stop the horrifying onslaught, two determined heroes, Michael (A. Michael Baldwin) and Reggie (Reggie Bannister), hurtle themselves through a gateway in the time/space continuum, to unearth a vital clue that may put an end to the horror. But time is running out as the Tall Man amasses his dark army for a blood-curdling final assault in which Michael and Reggie must fight not only for their own lives, but the lives of all mankind.

Customer Reviews:

Best of the series to date.......2007-04-20

I enjoyed this one even more than the original. I especially liked the scenes with Jebediah Morningside before he became the evil Tall Man. This movie ends with such a great set up for the final chapter that I can't believe part V hasn't been made yet.

The unused footage from the original movie worked so well here that it was like part IV was written at the same time as the original. Excellent!

The Fourth Instalment And A Major Disapppointment !.......2006-12-31

I just LOVED the first 3 Phantasm movies and I had to wait 2 years to see this movie and I must say it was a big disappointment. This movie has no apparent story line or cohesion. You get a guy wandering around in the desert, Reggie is still on the hunt and the Tall Man keeps on coming back for more which kinda reminds me of a woman I used to date. Where are the car chases and the beautiful women that Reggie always manages to have sex with? They are nowhere to be seen. I give this movie 5 stars because I still like Reggie's very cool Hemi Cuda.

what cares about plot.......2006-06-23

I don't remember much about Part 4 other than the fact that there's not much action like in Part 2 & 3. It was really boring. And there wasn't hardly any special effects. I tend to purchase even bad horror sequel dvd's from the 70's, 80's, and 90's but this Part 4 Oblivion was so so bad that i never bought this in DVD.

Lacks Continuity.......2006-06-10

To me this is the weakest of the four Phantasm movies.

It gets into time travel where they go back and see The Tall Man as a kindly old undertaker sometime in the 1800s I guess.

To me this is inconsistent with Phantasm 3 where it said that his kind are trying to amass an army of dwarfs because it implies that "his kind" are really human beings.

It is interesting though because back in the 1800s he created the original "dimensional fork".

However trying to make The Tall Man into anything other than pure evil is to me another inconsistency and contradiction. Up until now The Tall Man was a truly frightening character. Also it's not clear to me exactly where he made that transformation from a kindly old gentleman offering lemonade to a destroyer of worlds.

Then Mike ends up having to kill his brother Jody who has somehow turned into a traitor and accomplice of The Tall Man. This is again inconsistent with part 3 and can only be considered to be sacrilegious.

Mike has obtained psychokinetic powers as a result of the golden sphere that was implanted into his skull in part 3.

The Tall Man wants to remove this sphere from Mike's head. But why ? He was the one who implanted it in part 3.

Then their greatest weapon against The Tall Man. The weapon that could save all of mankind. A tuning fork.

Anyway at least Reggie still has his homemade quadra-barrel shotgun.

They may be beating a dead horse with these sequels.

Perhaps a more interesting approach would have been to see how The Tall Man destroyed those other towns. Maybe show how other new characters gradually discovered and tried to defeat The Tall Man.

It was the mystery and gradual discovery that made Phantasm 1 so tremendous. Once you start with characters who already understand The Tall Man at the beginning of the movie something gets lost there I think.

There's probably some profound and deeper meaning hidden in Phantasm 4 somewhere. However I can't tell what that might be.

Jeff Marzano

IT'S JUST THE WIND... .......2005-12-15

Being an avid "Phantasm" fan, I didn't like this film when I first saw it. Now, couple of years later, I watched it again and was slightly surprised because the impression improved. The forth installment to the series may not be as scary as the first one, not as gripping as the second and not as funny as the third, but Don Coscarelli made an unexpectable turn to thoughtfulness and philosophy. We are to discover many unknown and unexplored facts about the Tall Man and the nature of his abilities and creatures. We will be baffled about what's going on, because the story takes an unexpected turn and makes a loop returning to the very beginning. What was all that? A Nightmare? Some paranoid delusion? Just a dream? Or is it real? You'll learn the answers after watching but not all of them, certainly. "Phantasm" was always a kind of a movie where pretty much is left for your own imagination, so here you'll have to ponder too. By the way (in the next sentence there may be a spoiler, you may want to start reading the next paragraph), the ending of the forth part is the only one with no sudden Tall Man appearence and dwarves grabbing some of the characters. Here the finale is more like metaphysical.

The one ingenious discovery by Don Coscarelli here was that he inserted some of not previously used footage from the first "Phantasm". Those are the frames you didn't have a chance to see even in deleted scenes for the first film, and here they matched just right. Coscarelli tied the past and the present together, so we got this strange, sinister and global new phantasm.
But still this is far from seeming to be a closure of the series. The Tall Man is still undefeated, the cities are still being desolated, Jody is still half a man-half a ball :), Mike (who is not dead, but it's hard to say if he's alive either) and Reggie are lost somewhere in time between dimensions. So the forth part looks rather a preparation for the final battle than the end itself. So we are left in suspended animation to wait for the pay-off. I just hope studios will come to agreement, find the financing and help Don Coscarelli finish the quintology. And I hope the last one will finally be written by Roger Avery. Every story has to have an ending.

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