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Local drive in theater, original release (it was "scary summer" 1979 -- Alien, Dawn of the Dead, Night Wing, Prophecy and a few others) . LOVED IT!!!!!!!! I was so excited when it came to HBO in 1980!! Then countless VHS rentals.......from Mom & Pop video stores...........
"In every dimension , there's another YOU!"
1979 at the theater. remember prophecy was playing at the same time and I wanted to see that, but a friend of mine insisted on Phantasm and so glad she did.
I also was like 12 in 1980 and stayed up late to watch it on HBO
I saw it on HBO in 1980 when I was 13, the same age as Mike in the film. That was part of the reason it resonated with me so much. It's always been a top 5 film for me. I envy you having seen it at the drive-in. What did they show with it?
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First I saw Phantasm, I was sixteen. I'd rented it on VHS from the Wherehouse. I wasn't much older than Mike.
I thought the movie was a bit of a letdown in a way, like it didn't entertain me the way I was expecting to be. But there was still something about it that stayed with me, like it was more than the sum of its parts. cheap or not, it had a very specific and original dream-like quality that I really admired.
I wouldn't say it scared me (I can't understand people who say the Tall Man scared them,) but the overall sense of strange things going on did of course make me uneasy and a little disturbed in a good way.
I first saw phantasm in 1996 when I was 7 years old .my dad bought the movie on vhs from Walmart . The tall man scared the hell out of me . me and my dad re watched phantasm again tonight and although it wasn't as scary as it was I was little we both agreed its still a fun movie to watch
shareAlso saw it at a drive-in in 1979. It was playing with Alien. Knew nothing about Phantasm, but it instantly became a childhood favourite!
shareSame as you, OP. AH, drive-ins!
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HBO. 1980. Back when a cable box was brown with beige buttons that can only be pushed one at a time. I was 6 years old and my 16 year old male babysitter Scotty let me watch it while he smoked pot in front of me out of a glass pipe. He was cool at least I thought so at the time. It was my first ever horror movie and it stuck with me for life. Specifically the score, the sphere, and the mausoleum interiors.
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