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May 23, 2025
7
It is a shame that they recast Mike, not that James Le Gros didn’t play Mike well, it’s just a shame that they didn’t have the same actor in all the films. Anyway, this is a fun film with lots going on so it is very enjoyable. It follows on well from the first film and I really appreciate that it is a direct sequel. The gore and horror is improved. The story is expanded a little, maybe not enough. The romance wasn’t needed but I also didn’t hate it. The ending truly is really great. So much happens in this film, way more than the first one but it is more mainstream and I don’t mind that.
Jun 29, 2021
2
Happening nearly 10 years after the original film was made, Phantasm 2 attempts to capture the magic that made the first one so good and for the most part, it doesn't really deliver. The story does nothing to expand upon what was already introduced in the first film and the lack of gore (which is saved until pretty much the very end) left a lot more to be desired. The cast tries but they can only do so much.
May 4, 2020
7
Definitely the best of the sequels and arguably the best of the franchise. Phantasm II is to Phantasm what the Evil Dead II is to the Evil Dead. It is a bigger budget, more fun, more special effects, and campier version of the first that still maintains the same spirit and overall quality of the original. And basically the same storyline and setting as well.
Sep 3, 2019
6
After a great independent horror classic came your typical major Hollywood sequel. Not a bad movie but really far from the original one. The film is still enjoyable even if we totally miss the original eerie atmosphere to the favor of a kind of weird road movie with some goofy gore sequences. The franchise will unfortunately stay on this way for the next installments and become worst and worst at each new entries.
Jun 28, 2019
10
Don Coscarelli, réalisateur de son premier long-métrage culte sorti fin des années 70, poursuit sa lancée dont la réalisation lui a couté 3 millions de dollars et rapporté 7 millions au box-office. Phantasm 2 comporte beaucoup plus d'effets-spéciaux, des sphères et de nains mort-vivants qui sont les esclaves du Grand Homme. En effet, on retrouve le mythique, le grand et le terrifiant Tall Man.
Cette fois-ci on laisse tomber l'ambiance sombre, et on se met plus dans l'action et dans le gore. On passe du fantastique à de la science-fiction, je m'accroche plus dans le deux notamment pour sa violence plus furieuse, mais aussi pour la scène de la maison qui reprend la fin du 1 qui est très divertissante et qui comporta pas mal de suspens. On verra aussi certaines scènes très gore, il y'a aussi la scène de la sphère qui ressemble beaucoup à la scène de la sphère dans le 1, car cette scène reprend le même plans caméra. Phantasm 2 surfe un peu sur la vague d'Evil Dead 2 notamment pour son côté funky, mais aussi pour la scène de la tronçonneuse entre Reggie et l'autre malade. On aura aussi un remplacement d'acteurs, l'excellent Michael Baldwin se fait remplacer par le nullissime JamesLeGros. Heureusement que Michael Baldwin reviens dans le 3. Dernièrement, la musique originale composé par Fred Myrow fait tenir l'oeuvre.