Despite any production failings... one cannot deny the effective special effects and formal structure.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2023

It's put together rather curiously out of disjointed scenes, snatches of dialog, and brief strokes of characterization.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 28, 2023

A fairly artful blending of traditional horror stuff and science-fiction.

| Sep 27, 2022

...a relatively promising set-up that's employed to persistently (and increasingly) underwhelming and uninvolving effect by Coscarelli...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 22, 2021

Coscarelli utilizes a disturbingly unstable reality that borders on a world of nightmares - the perfect setting for pondering life, death, and reincarnation.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 30, 2020

Phantasm was a cheesy, somewhat nonsensical, seventies horror scifi film that became a cult classic despite all its shortcomings.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Nov 2, 2018

It retains its power to make you stay the hell away from your closet after dark.

| Aug 22, 2018

The film has an especially attractive first part where fantastic and terrifying elements are developed with great visual and dramatic interes[... [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 3, 2018

"Phantasm" will not be remembered as a masterpiece of the horror genre, but it sustains a gauche, hokey, desperately improvisational charm.

| Oct 20, 2017

While holding onto the handmade charm of the original, the 4K version makes the image less murky and the seams less visible, giving the picture back the vividly nightmarish quality of its original theatrical run.

| Oct 6, 2016

Freshly refurbished with better sound and digitally sharpened visuals for this latest rerelease, "Phantasm" remains a pretty effective fright fest.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2016

Phantasm is wildly imaginative and legitimately creepy, confronting death and mourning as part of the coming-of-age process while also delivering nutty Jawa-type critters and blood spurting out of peoples' faces.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 6, 2016

One of the most idiosyncratic movies in the horror canon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2016

Whether you've always loved Phantasm, never saw it, or never even had the affection for Don Coscarelli's nightmarish tale, I cannot think of a better way to experience this film now than with the remastered version.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2016

One of the definitive '70s horror pictures, in the last few months before '70s horror got steamrolled into oblivion... a raw blast of sensory information.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 29, 2011

Passable in spots, it offers dumb fun and turns out to be one of the best films that Coscarelli ever made

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 17, 2008

Extremely gory. Horror fans should delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2008

With its blend of horror and sci-fi and crap and cool, and its deceitful story-line, Phantasm's certainly unlike other American films of the period.

| May 6, 2008

Strong point of the feature is that it's played for both horror and laughs.

| May 6, 2008

A film filled with unique, personal, witty, and, at the same time, terrifying imagery rarely seen in low-budget horror films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 6, 2008