Good start, but then it gets ruined

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Phantasm III is very much like Phantasm II, but a little better if only because the original Michael is in it. But not for very much. Many of the other elements were in II and frankly, you could skip II and go right to this one and not have missed one thing.Not a big-budget series of films, this seems like one episode of a weekly TV series, where they are on a road trip looking for the Tall Man. Their mission: to explore strange old mausoleums, to seek out new death and decimated civilizations, to oldly go where they have gone before.Each new entry apparently requires a new style of sphere (I'd like to see the "action figure" for those!) and new quirky characters. The Tall Man remains creepy but that may get diluted because of his indestructability. There is no real ending for this movie, obviously set up for yet another sequel. I'm hoping they are setting up Michael to be an eventual successor to The Tall Man. But the story has to end somewhere.That said, it is a decent waste of 90 minutes, not all that scary.

This was one of the crappiest movies I've EVER watched. Well at least in the bottom five. I liked the first two from the installation were quite good and entertaining and also got some real horror too. That's why I watched this third one although I almost turned the TV off middle ways. "Lord of the Dead" is just too ludicrous and not even fun in a b-class horror movie way. This time we get to see Home Alone -kid that kills people with razor blade -Frisbee in cold blood, unattractive lesbian kun-fu afro lady, stupid zombies (no more just midgets) who survive massive explosion seemingly unharmed, baddies popping up around every corner, silver sentry balls that were supposed to be just guarding the premise all the sudden have brains inside and can transform to people, just very very bad acting from pretty much everybody in the cast,.. List can go on and on. What happened with this one? All the good qualities from the first two are pretty much absent and replaced with random crap. What is there left to say? Director seemed to make up the story while filming. I could make up a better script sitting on a can taking a dump. Just horrible...I'm speechless. 1/10.

I generally prefer my horror films to have some semblance of internal logic that applies throughout—I don't care how crazy things get, just so long as the film sticks to its own set of rules. I cut the Phantasm films a lot of slack, however, because they're just so much fun.So what if writer/director Don Coscarelli repeatedly changes what is possible within his realm, has his characters come and go at whim (whilst alternating the actor in the role of Mike), adds convenient new details to suit his ever expanding story-line (which I'm positive he is making up as he goes along), and generally plays everything extremely fast and loose? As long as there's plenty of insane action, warped humour, gloopy gore, and flying spheres a-go-go, then I'm one happy chappy.Lord of the Dead follows on immediately from Part 2 and continues in much the same vein, with Reggie (Reggie Bannister) continuing his hunt for The Tall Man after he kills Liz and abducts Mike (A. Michael Baldwin returning to the role). On his quest, Reggie teams up with orphan Tim (Kevin Connors), who is a dab-hand with a razor-edged Frisbee and a crack shot with a pistol, and tough soldier Rocky (Gloria Lynne Henry), who uses her nunchuks to crack skulls and keep men at bay (like Reggie, for example, who takes a shine to her).Phantasm III is a another consistently entertaining entry in the series, with great effects, suitably cheesy performances from its cast, and imaginative direction from Coscarelli; bonkers highlights include Tim's cool booby-trapped house, The Tall Man's severed hands turning into scuttling critters, Reg's erotic dream featuring Rocky, and, of course, lots of outrageous sphere-related carnage, all topped off with the now obligatory 'shock' ending (that is unlikely to catch fans off-guard but which is enjoyable nonetheless).7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.

Phantasm III (1994) * 1/2 (out of 4) Reggie (Reggie Bannister) and Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) are again looking for the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) who is (once again) going from town to town killing everyone. This time the two have the help of a 8-year-old boy, a tough black chick (Gloria Lynne Henry) and Mike's dead brother Jody (Bill Thornbury). This third film in the series takes a giant leap into the territory of horror/comedy as we get a lot of slapstick bits but in the end both elements fail and the final product is another disappointment. I'm really not sure why this series is so popular outside of the atmosphere of the first one and the gore of the second, this third entry has very little going for it. Once again Bannister manages to be entertaining in terms of his dramatic style and I must admit that his comic timing got a few laughs. Scrimm is once again back of the Tall Man and he fits the the role perfectly. Both Baldwin and Thornbury, members of the original film, are back and both are decent but nothing great. The gore this time out doesn't come anywhere close to the previous film and even the classic sphere isn't used as nicely as the previous films. I'm really not sure why the director decided to cut out the red stuff while adding more laughs but that's exactly what happened. The movie runs out of gas around the hour mark and this here makes the final thirty-minutes rather hard to take and the screenplay really doesn't give us too much.