Phantasm: Ravager

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Phantasm: Ravager

Released Oct 7, 2016

1h 27m

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Small-town friends Reggie (Reggie Bannister), Mike (A. Michael Baldwin), and Jody (Bill Thornbury) continue in their quest to stop the evil, dimension-hopping schemes of The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) and his armada of killer Sentinel Spheres. This time, the fight becomes a multi-dimensional battle across multiple timelines, alien planets and altered realities, where no less than the fate of Earth is on the line.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

Phantasm: Ravager only works when it's a piece of straight-up fan service.

Rated: 2.5/4

Oct 7, 2016

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

Retains all the offbeat humor and casual surrealism that has kept this franchise afloat for over three decades.

Oct 6, 2016

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Soren Andersen

Seattle Times

The main character, played by Bannister, is forever baffled as to what his actual reality is. His bafflement is shared by the viewer.

Rated: 1.5/4

Oct 6, 2016

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Amie Simon

Three Imaginary Girls

Ravager's narrative alters reality so much it's almost impossible to know what's real and what's a dream - true to form of the previous installments.

Mar 2, 2019

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Carlos Losilla

Sensacine

... the film lurches, camouflaging its insufficiency with less and less agile narrative turns. But it also maintains the spirit of the original... [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/5

Oct 6, 2017

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Heather Wixson

Daily Dead

Phantasm: Ravager is a triumphant conclusion to this franchise, and I had a great time seeing the entire original cast together onscreen one last time, as they all brought an infectious sense of enthusiasm to the table with their performances.

Rated: 3.5/5

Dec 21, 2016

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Justin T

The narration at the start is pretty cheesy, it’s definitely the weakest attempt to follow on from the previous film. They could have at least cleaned their lenses, they were so dirty. The CGI looks pretty bad. Overall this is a disappointing finale. They should have tried to match the tone of the first film and not make an action film as they did a terrible job of making the action. It is far and away the ugliest one of the series, horrible cinematography, especially outside during the day. One of the ugliest films, not just of the Phantasm films. The indoor scenes didn’t look as bad. It has the worst acting. The comedic elements are back and that was what dragged Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994) down. I quite liked the music and this is a complete franchise told over 37 years. Although this is easily the worst of the series and not really worth watching.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/19/25

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Mark H

Loved it, fantastic!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/07/24

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chris h

It's better than all of them except the first.It still seems a bit confusing.Was great seeing Reggie.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

06/25/24

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Jason S

This is the final film in the franchise it is not bad as the third film bad sill good Reggie is good see mike again and the tall man is always is great and i like the first 20 minutes of the film but cgi is so terrible and budget feels the lowest budget of the franchise and you can tell the director was not don coscarelli but this one is better because it is not dumb for me

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

05/08/23

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Audience Member

Very confusing, poor effects, subpar acting, and hardly faithful to its predecessors.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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I really REALLY wanted this movie to be good SO BAD. It wasn't good. At all. The effects dropped by ALOT. Like they swapped out the good practical effects for some shitty CGI. They also fuck up the Tall Man. Gone were the days were he was taking over the world quietly instead we get him using full on spaceships to bomb everything. Plus this movie ignores almost every question the past movies set up. They also try to make you think the movies were a dream of Reggie's for way to long and it really hurts the film. I don't know why it took them so long to make Phantasm 5 but I feel like if they made it not to long after the 4th film it could have been good. Sadly however we might never get a satisfying conclusion to Phantasm's story.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Small-town friends Reggie (Reggie Bannister), Mike (A. Michael Baldwin), and Jody (Bill Thornbury) continue in their quest to stop the evil, dimension-hopping schemes of The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) and his armada of killer Sentinel Spheres. This time, the fight becomes a multi-dimensional battle across multiple timelines, alien planets and altered realities, where no less than the fate of Earth is on the line.

Director: David Hartman
Producer: Don Coscarelli
Screenwriter: David Hartman, Don Coscarelli
Distributor: Well Go USA
Production Co: Silver Sphere Corporation
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 7, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 6, 2016
Runtime: 1h 27m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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