Directed by Don Coscarelli (best known
for Phantasm, but personally beloved for Bubba Ho - Tep), John Dies offers a fun hallucination on film.
I remember having the theme
for Phantasm stuck in my head for a long time, then I wrote this track — in a similar scale and tempo, it also has some common progressions.
Not exact matches
For so long as he is not aware that the present moment is final, is claimed, constrains to decision, his idea of God is a
phantasm.
We can't be sure what shocked us more on Tuesday: the utter
phantasm that is Coles» «fighting fund»
for dairy farmers, or the deplorable credulity of the media's reporting of it.
Last night at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX, just before a showing of Penumbra, filmmaker Don Coscarelli (of
Phantasm, The Beastmaster, Survival Quest, Bubba Ho - Tep) introduced an exclusive first look clip and early look at the teaser trailer
for John Dies at the End, his crazy new horror film that he already shot late last year.
Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «
Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann
for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music
for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score
for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions
for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score
for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins» music
for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room
for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra
for his final film «Shock.»
10,000 Bullets 24 The Game Ace Combat: Squadron Leader Ace Combat the Belkan War AFL Live 2005 AFL Premiership 2006 Altered Beast 2 (Project Altered Beast) Ape Escape 3 Ant Bully Area 51 Arthur and the Invisbles Artelier Iris 3 Grand
Phantasm ATV Offroad Fury 3 B Boy Batman Begins Beatdown fists of vengeance Ben 10 Alien Force Bionicle Heroes Brave: The Search
for the Spirit Dancer Bomberman Hardball Bloodrayne 2 Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 Bully (Canis Canem Edit) Buzz!
The film built up a cult following over the years and, believe it or not, they're just about to release the fourth sequel titled
Phantasm: Ravager (see the trailer
for that here).
The way that the digital age has minimized and forgotten stunt people is a genuine tragedy; were it not
for this bit and Howard's chat (and a few shots of people actually getting hurt during filming), I would've assumed that the whole gag was a computer
phantasm.
There's a block of new and repertory features from India, a new film from Werner Herzog,
Phantasm: Remastered and the world premier of
Phantasm: Ravager with special guest Don Coscarelli, and Miss Peregrine's Home
for Peculiar Children with Tim Burton in attendance.
Your player character's grunt as they go in
for an attack, the explosion of grenades thrown from overhead by a floating
phantasm as well as the crack from a pistol of an undead soldier sounds real and helps to breathe life into supporting characters that all too often feel one - sided and flat in side - scrollers.
In addition to standard retail and digital formats, the game is available today
for both platforms in a limited Noble
Phantasm Edition bundle, which contains a 7.5» by 6.3» hardcover art book featuring over 100 pages of high - quality artwork and backstory from Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star, a pack of sixteen collectible 3» by 5» cards depicting each of the game's Servants, and a 24» by 17» cloth poster, all housed in a custom collectible box.
The limited Noble
Phantasm Edition has a suggested retail price of $ 69.99
for the PS4 ™ system and $ 59.99
for the «PSVita» system, while the standard retail and digital editions of the game are available
for $ 49.99 and $ 39.99, respectively.
In addition to standard retail and digital formats
for the Nintendo Switch version, the game is available on the PlayStation ® 4 and «PSVita» systems in a limited Noble
Phantasm Edition bundle, which contains a 7.5» by 6.3» hardcover art book featuring over 100 pages of high - quality artwork and backstory from the Fate / EXTELLA universe, a pack of sixteen collectible 3» by 5» cards depicting each of the game's Servants, and a 24» by 17» cloth poster, all housed in a custom collectible box.
For close to two hours, Sean aka Lucky
Phantasm made an appearance on the Gamers In Beta podcast to hang out and chat with his podcast cohorts.
1 Notable recent examples include: Matthew Higgs («B. Wurtz & Co.», 2012, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles), Massimiliano Gioni («Ostalgia», 2011, New Museum, New York) and Connie Butler («Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing», Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008) 2 Jean Dubuffet, «Place à l'incivisme» (Make Way
for Incivism), in Art and Text, no. 27, December 1987 — February 1988, p. 36 3 Quoted in Alan S. Weiss, Shattered Forms: Art Brut,
Phantasms, Modernism, 1992, State University of New York Press, Albany, p. 63
The signifiers of these
phantasms are reflected throughout the exhibition by commercially produced, limited edition wallpapers (in collaboration with wallpaper designer George Venson of Voutsa), posters (which include re-contexutalized images of «tear - outs» of photographs of Karen Graham taken by Viktor Skebneski
for Estée Lauder ads), and sculptural installations including «My Model / MySelf» paperback books.