[Antym666]

Originally Posted by crabapple

Yeah, one other thing I will say about Phantasm--besides that the music score is so listenable, so haunting--is that it's the weirdest thing in the world, but the characters are very likeable and seem like real people. The sequels are cool because I liked seeing the characters come back and do their thing.

Back in 1979 when the film came out, it was THE R-rated movie to see that summer, and if you could handle it, you were made of tough stuff--you were a badass.

We've seen so many advances in special effects over the years and so, to modern viewers, it may be difficult to understand how jaw-droppingly shocking the "famous scene" in Phantasm was. Audiences had never seen anything like it before, and people walked out of the theatre really badly freaked out! I mean, this movie really scared the crap out of you!

No surprise that the tagline was, "If this one doesn't scare you, you're ALREADY DEAD!"

What's THE FAMOUS SCENE then?