Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
Coscarelli had two decades to work on this movie – two decades to make sense of the convoluted nonsense in the prior three sequels, tie up all the loose ends, and provide a satisfying conclusion to the series. Instead he produces this ugly, cheap-looking, go-nowhere “story” which only succeeds in wasting the talent of the actors and the time of the fans who watched it.
I suspected it was the case before I watched this movie, and now I’m adamant it’s the case: Phantasm should’ve been a stand-alone movie. It was a surreal, unsettling nightmare encapsulated on film; it didn’t need four directionless sequels to expand a story which wasn’t there.
3/10