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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9781558908789
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1558908781
Label: Dimension
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Dimension
MPN: D14893D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Dimension
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 19, 1998
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: Dimension
Theatrical Release Date: January 23, 1998
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In the small town of snowfield colorado 700 people are missing and no one knows why. The survivors left behind the town sheriff his deputy and a professor. They suspect its a terrifying force of evil that has laid dormant below the earth for centuries powerful enough to destroy every human being. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/03/2004 Starring: Ben Affleck Peter Otoole Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R Director: Joe Chappelle
Amazon.com:
Either Dean Koontz shouldn't adapt his own bestsellers, or his 1983 novel Phantoms was a pack of horror clichés to begin with, or this movie is 15 years past its due date. What might have seemed fresh at the time of Poltergeist now feels like it was made from a derivative script with pages missing. Plagued by reckless leaps of logic, the movie starts with adequately eerie atmosphere and a perversely twisted performance by Scream 2's Liev Schreiber, but decays into a familiar hash of gross-out effects, resulting from the annihilation of a small Colorado town by an evil force known as "The Ancient Enemy." In a dreary role that insults the twilight of his distinguished career, Peter O'Toole plays a paleobiologist whose crackpot ideas have become tabloid fodder, but he holds the key to conquering the beast. Or does he? Sure enough, an obligatory coda leaves room for anticlimactic doubt. Phantoms has a few genuinely creepy highlights, including a devilish beastie resembling an angry flying scorpion, and horror fans will surely find something to admire, but everyone else is advised to proceed with caution and lowered expectations. --Jeff Shannon
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I loved the book, Phantoms, and the movie followed the book closely. Since Dean Koontz did the screen play that was understandable. The characters were well played and engaging. I recommend this to any scifi fan.
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Phantoms, based on the novel by Dean Koontz, isn't as scary as The Shining and Gin Gwai (The Eye), but it really brings a creepy atmosphere for a horror film that doesn't try too hard. It sets itself apart from the horror flicks of the late 90's such as Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Urban Legend by focusing on a ghostly, seemingly demonic figure rather than a guy with a mask. What we get are some very impressive scares and some unusual creepiness throughout the entire film. But this ... Read More
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I didn't want to give it 4 stars except for the redeeming value of one of it's actors and for the scary suspense that it managed to carry nearly throughout the movie. Liev Schrieber as the nasty Stu Wargle is an absolute gem in the dark. Physically not a match for the "book" Wargle, even without the verbal nastiness of the original Schrieber gets his character across with absolute clarity. Peter O'Toole is always good and he did the Timothy Flyte character justice. Once again, while not true the book, ... Read More
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_Phantoms_ is the first movie that I seen ever adapted from one of Dean Koontz's works. I found it pretty entertaining overall, a decent if not brilliant science fiction-horror movie.
The basic premise is that two sisters are heading to a quiet Colorado mountain town by the name of Snowfield. The older sister, a Dr. Jenny Pailey, played by Joanna Going, is wanting to get her younger sibling Lisa (played by the rather attractive Rose McGowan) out of Los Angeles, away to a place where it is ... Read More
Rating:  -
awesome movie. I saw this when it first came out a while ago. And, it's still a great horror flick today.
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