It’s been since March that we’ve heard any news from the fifth Phantasm film entitled, Phantasm: Ravager. Today though, series creator Don Coscarelli and director David Hartman have a holiday treat for fans eager to get more details about the new film. They have released a new clip teasing what’s to come in the film due out in 2015.
Production on Ravager took place in and around Southern California over the past two years. “The Phantasm films have been a guerrilla operation for decades now, totally outside of the studio system,” Coscarelli notes. “We do them for the fans, and I think Ravager will definitely please them. In the past few years several studios have made offers to remake Phantasm with large budgets, but the fans were very vocal that they wanted the original cast to return and finish this iteration of the story with class. And for the first time there’s an extended sequence on the Tall Man’s home world. I know Phantasm fans will be as excited as I am to see it.”
Ravager features Reggie Bannister (a veteran of all five films) in his decades-long pursuit of the malevolent Tall Man, and it finally forces him to confront the mysteries at the heart of the Phantasm saga. The entire original cast is back including Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Kat Lester, and Angus Scrimm, along with some great new characters. Coscarelli allows, “There are also some surprises thrown in that I promise will astonish long-time fans.”
Coscarelli and Hartman say we will definitely see Ravager in 2015 for sure. There are some interesting images in the teaser clip including one of the silver sphere’s destroying a city, wow! Most of the images in the clip are brand new and different from the past teaser trailer. Check out the clip below!
Watch the teaser trailer here,
