Phantasm II
We love Don Coscarelli’s entire Phantasm series for a lot of reasons, one being that it raises all kinds of weirdly awesome ideas and doesn’t feel the need to explain most of them. The sequel, which came out nine years after the 1979 original, brought back Angus Scrimm (as the terrifying Tall Man) and Reggie Bannister (as the indefatigable Reggie), but re-cast the lead role of Mike with the then up-and-coming James LeGros—something that miffed fans back in 1988, but now feels sorta like another appropriately surreal element in Phantasm’s trippy, nightmarish world.
