Phantasm (film) Quotes

“Bill Thornbury — Jody Pearson”

“Where the dead are no longer that way...”

“If this one doesn't scare you, you're already dead!”

“Beware the ball, beware the tall man, beware the never dead.”

“I just don't get off on funerals, man, they give me the creeps.”

“You play a good game boy, but the game is finished. Now you die!”

“There's this door down here. And I bet there's something behind it.”

“Rotten Tomatoes: Phantasm”

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“Box Office Mojo: Phantasm”

“Angus Scrimm — The Tall Man”

“Internet Movie Database (IMDb): Phantasm”

“A. Michael Baldwin — Mike Pearson”

“Reggie Bannister — Reggie”

“Now, remember: you don't aim a gun at a man unless you intend to shoot him. And, you don't shoot a man unless you intend to kill him. No warning shots. Hey, you listening to me? No warning shots. Warning shots are bullshit. You shoot to kill, or you don't shoot at all.”

“Hi guys. Heh heh, just thought I'd come over and see what was going on before the kids got out of summer school. Hey Mike, you want to ride along with me today? It's pretty warm outside and the ice cream's going to be flying fast and furious. Remember how good you were at crowd control last time? Hey, what's going on here?”

“I had a compunction to try to do something in the horror genre and I started thinking about how our culture handles death; it’s different than in other societies. We have this central figure of a mortician. He dresses in dark clothing, he lurks behind doors, they do procedures on the bodies we don’t know about. The whole embalming thing, if you ever do any research on it, is pretty freaky. It all culminates in this grand funerary service production. It’s strange stuff. It just seemed like it would be a great area in which to make a film.”