Firstly, many thanks to ThiefCobbler4ever for his excellent and exceedingly fair review of the Phantasm Phan-Edit. I'm glad to see that someone here enjoyed my little labour of love.
On an altogether different note...
For those of you with an interest in this 'Phantasm Extended Phan-Edit', you may also be intrieged by another nightmarish horror film related fan-project that myself and my fellow fan-editor have recently completed work on.
A new version of 'Friday the 13th Part V'; inwhich Jason is the actual killer in the film instead of the imposter Roy (the paramedic).
My co-editor and I actually took quite a few ques from our 'Phantasm Phan-Edit' for this new project, we made the film feel much more like one long nightmare; with an over-riding simmilar sence of dream-logic...by adding more hallucinations and nightmare sequences for the Tommy charactor, as well as Jason himself (who has a few drowning flashbacks).
Google "Friday The 13th Part V The Killer Is Jason Fan-Edit" or go to where be docked the Black Pearl, ahhr ahhr (hint, hint).
I've also started a new O-T thread on this very subject, which can be located here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Friday-the-13th-Part-V-The-Killer-Is-Jason-Edition/topic/11089/
A mere days before we began this edit, we had nearly completed principal editing work on our unique "extended edition/true fan edit" of Don Coscarelli's 1979 exploitation masterpiece 'Phantasm'...Well, somehow or other, the dream-logic and nightmarish qualities so intrinsic to that particular cult classic have seemed to somehow bleed into and have virtually overtaken the mood and flow of this current edit. It's difficult to put into words what is happening with this project, to be perfectly honest. It certainly is unique, I'll give it that.
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Here's a brief list of some of the changes we've made, but this list will in no way come even close to conveying the strange mood and eerie flavor of this edit, nor is it even close to a comprehensive list of all the countless trims & additions we've made to the film overall:
- The theatrical trailers for the first five films play out in quick succession as "coming attractions" before the film proper actually begins. These will be encoded to play out as part of the main feature, not as "extras", but we plan to map out the menu so that you can skip this section via "scene selection" for those who prefer to do so --- however this is not recommended, as you can't exactly skip the opening trailers at a grindhouse film festival showing at the Alamo Draft House, for example (unless you skipp off to the concessions or duck into the latrine).
- The gravediggers have been cut from the picture.
- The character of Roy the paramedic has been virtually cut from the picture save a brief appearance as an un-named, unimportant background character.
- Tommy has more hallucinations and nightmares.
- Jason himself is now the actual killer in the film.
- Many deaths and dramatic confrontations have been tightened for greater emotional impact and enhanced for more modern cinematic sensibilities
- Most of the campy dialogue has been trimmed to better facilitate a more serious tone and overall darker feel to the picture
- Virtually all camera shots in inwhich the killer's right eye is visible have been deleted, to better maintain continuity with Jason's previously sustained cranial damage as depicted in the fourth film
- many more twists, turns and surprises lie in store for those adventurous enough to dare give this new and somewhat overly ambitious fan-project a spin.