61. Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm (1979)

We reviewed a classic and scared John as a child and confused Josh as an adult. Imagine The Goonies, but with big naked California tits, fountains of blood, and the childhood drama of having everyone you love die. There, that’s Phantasm. Is it as simple as that? No! It’s much more confusing! Phantasm features multiple allusions to Dune, some strange overlap with Star Wars, and manages to be a strikingly singular piece of storytelling. Do we have any idea what the story it’s telling is? Can we explain it in the slightest? Did Josh tell a story about going to a place while unaware that he was getting sick and did the onset of those symptoms cause him to really screw up the end of this recording? There’s only one way to find out, by listening to the entirety of this ultra-high quality and exquisitely professional episode of Loathsome Things: the best podcast for fans of Phantasm and the only podcast you should listen to if you’re trying to figure out how to do a good job at making a podcast and writing podcast notes for your podcast podcast. Podcast!

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The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List
(of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)

(1) Andrzej Żuławski's Possession (1981)
(2) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)
(3) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)
(4) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)
(5) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)
(6) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)
(7) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)
(8) Ti West’s X (2022)
(9) Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski's The Void (2016)
(10) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)

 

Honorable Mentions:
Beyond the Door III (1989) – American teens take an evil train ride across bad-times Yugoslavia!
The Pit (1981) – A coming-of-age story about seeing boobs, evil teddy bears and feeding beasts!
The Suckling (1990) – An abortion monster kills a house full of sex workers on his way home!