those deadly silver spheres. “Phantasm is a dream-like film, focusing more on atmosphere and ethereal scares than on plot, very influenced by the dream-logic of Dario Argento” says Garris.

Phantasm is a 1978 gothic horror fantasy written and directed by Don Coscarelli. It spawned three more sequels, all of them about evil dwarf minions and flying silver balls that love exsanguination.

But Phantasm‘s open-door policy with respect ... a stream of blood shooting majestically through a silver ball glued to someone’s face, a severed finger inching around in yellow ooze.

Phantasm focuses on a 13 year-old named Mike ... He also has at his disposal that notorious flying silver ball (in many ways the real star of the film), which patrols the endless white hallways ...

They paid for them too! These balls are HUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEE! Hiding inside of our Fantastic Fest story is a still from Phantasm: Ravager that you’re gonna want to see! Well Go USA Entertainment ...

Like a lethal, flying silver sphere, the Phantasm horror franchise is returning ... Certainly, it has no shortage of balls. “It’s a swan song to the series,” Coscarelli says.

Phantasm is one of those wonderfully weird ... who commands the use of silver balls - known as Sentinel Spheres - as one of the tools to do so. Sentinel Spheres are on this list for a number ...

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It deliberately makes no sense, but it has more bizarro gimmicks to the minute than any other horror picture of 1979, including the flying silver balls that bore into your forehead and ...

Threats in the “Phantasm” universe are flying metallic balls that squirt out the blood of their victims, not to mention corpses shrunken to the size of little people and reanimated as slaves ...

And four-barrel shotguns. And, of course, floating, blade-bedecked silver spheres. “Phantasm: Ravager” — the fifth and purportedly final installment in the cult-favorite franchise launched ...