Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)

Sadly Over-hyped

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This movie gets a 6 and it not even scary. How could movie this bad have cult few up? This is overrated. Phantasm IV is a better movie and that was pretty bad. This movie has an awful story line. It also has an awful ending. I can not believe people got scared of this movie and did not get scared of Plan 9 from outer space. Plan 9 from outer space is a lot scary then this crap. I can under stand why Halloween is popular movie. The Halloween movie are a lot better then this. This is a wast of time. It is also wast of money. The Leprechaun movie are better. This movie is pooh pooh. This hole series is pooh pooh. Do not see any this awful movie.

This was one of the crappiest movies I've EVER watched. Well at least in the bottom five. I liked the first two from the installation were quite good and entertaining and also got some real horror too. That's why I watched this third one although I almost turned the TV off middle ways. "Lord of the Dead" is just too ludicrous and not even fun in a b-class horror movie way. This time we get to see Home Alone -kid that kills people with razor blade -Frisbee in cold blood, unattractive lesbian kun-fu afro lady, stupid zombies (no more just midgets) who survive massive explosion seemingly unharmed, baddies popping up around every corner, silver sentry balls that were supposed to be just guarding the premise all the sudden have brains inside and can transform to people, just very very bad acting from pretty much everybody in the cast,.. List can go on and on. What happened with this one? All the good qualities from the first two are pretty much absent and replaced with random crap. What is there left to say? Director seemed to make up the story while filming. I could make up a better script sitting on a can taking a dump. Just horrible...I'm speechless. 1/10.

The original Michael's back, and so's Jody in this second sequel to Phantasm. To be honest, it's more of the same, but that doesn't mean it's no good. This time, Reggie's got two new sidekicks (a tough kid and an even tougher chick) and he's out to track down the Tall Man, who has kidnapped Michael for some reason. Once again, it's not too easy to describe the plot, as it's basically Reggie and Michael getting into scraps with the Tall Man, who says 'Boooooyyy' a lot. There's the usual fighting dwarfs and zombies, flying spheres, and unanswered questions. There's kind of some sort of plot regarding what happened to Jody, but the ending leaves things open for yet another sequel. Will we get our answers there? I suppose it doesn't really matter, as these films pretty enjoyable no matter what happens

I generally prefer my horror films to have some semblance of internal logic that applies throughout—I don't care how crazy things get, just so long as the film sticks to its own set of rules. I cut the Phantasm films a lot of slack, however, because they're just so much fun.So what if writer/director Don Coscarelli repeatedly changes what is possible within his realm, has his characters come and go at whim (whilst alternating the actor in the role of Mike), adds convenient new details to suit his ever expanding story-line (which I'm positive he is making up as he goes along), and generally plays everything extremely fast and loose? As long as there's plenty of insane action, warped humour, gloopy gore, and flying spheres a-go-go, then I'm one happy chappy.Lord of the Dead follows on immediately from Part 2 and continues in much the same vein, with Reggie (Reggie Bannister) continuing his hunt for The Tall Man after he kills Liz and abducts Mike (A. Michael Baldwin returning to the role). On his quest, Reggie teams up with orphan Tim (Kevin Connors), who is a dab-hand with a razor-edged Frisbee and a crack shot with a pistol, and tough soldier Rocky (Gloria Lynne Henry), who uses her nunchuks to crack skulls and keep men at bay (like Reggie, for example, who takes a shine to her).Phantasm III is a another consistently entertaining entry in the series, with great effects, suitably cheesy performances from its cast, and imaginative direction from Coscarelli; bonkers highlights include Tim's cool booby-trapped house, The Tall Man's severed hands turning into scuttling critters, Reg's erotic dream featuring Rocky, and, of course, lots of outrageous sphere-related carnage, all topped off with the now obligatory 'shock' ending (that is unlikely to catch fans off-guard but which is enjoyable nonetheless).7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.