Don Coscarelli Archives

Phantasm (1979)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 17, 2002Dream Horrors/Other-Dimensional Grave Robbers

Cult film from Don Coscarelli that takes place in a funereal twilight world and is filled with images of wild surrealism. Not a lot makes sense but the film is meant to operate on the logic of a dream. Several sequels followed.

Director: Don Coscarelli

Actors: Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm

Category: Horror

17 August 200223 April 2020 by Roog

The Beastmaster (1982)

Rating: ★★

Jun 4, 1999Sword and Sorcery

Don Coscarelli, director of the culty Phantasm, made this as part of the early 1980s sword and sorcery fad with Marc Singer as a muscular hero who has the ability to communicate with animals

Director: Don Coscarelli

Actors: Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn, John Amos, Rod Loomis, …

Category: Fantasy

4 June 199927 December 2025 by Roog

Phantasm II (1988)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 4, 1999Dream Horrors/Other-Dimensional Grave Robbers

The first and best of Don Coscarelli's Phantasm sequels, one that creates an eerie twilight zone ambience that sits between dream and reality

Director: Don Coscarelli

Actors: James Le Gros, Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister, Paula Irvine, …

Category: Horror

4 June 199914 June 2022 by Roog

Phantasm III (1994)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 2, 2003Dream Horrors/Other-Dimensional Grave Robbers

The third of Don Soscarelli's Phantasm films reunites many of the regulars and goes some way towards offering explanations for everything

Director: Don Coscarelli

Actors: Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, Michael Baldwin, Gloria Lynne Henry, …

Category: Horror

2 February 200319 May 2021 by Roog

Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 14, 2004Elvis vs the Mummy in a Retirement Home

This sounds more like a tabloid headline "Elvis and JFK vs a mummy in a retirement home" than it does a film. It is however a work of considerable ingenuity from Phantasm series director Don Coscarelli

Director: Don Coscarelli

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Heidi Marnhout, Larry Pennell, …

Category: Horror

14 August 200428 February 2026 by Roog

John Dies at the End (2012)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 13, 2012Reality-Expanding Drugs/Gonzo Supernatural Investigators

Phantasm series director Don Coscarelli makes a mind-expanding effort that seems a conceptual collision between Donnie Darko, Limitless, a slacker version of Supernatural and Dr Strange

Director: Don Coscarelli

Actors: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Glynn Turman, …

Category: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

13 November 201213 May 2026 by Roog