6 Movies Directed by Don Coscarelli

Phantasm

Phantasm

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-03-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (20975 Reviews)

Director:

Don Coscarelli

Genres:

HorrorSci-Fi

Fullplot:

Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, is afraid to lose his brother. This fear causes him to follow his brother to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lift a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate and discovers a horrible world where the Tall Man, along with his flying spheres, shrink the to half their normal size and reanimate them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man.

The Beastmaster

The Beastmaster

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-08-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, West Germany

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (14064 Reviews)

Director:

Don Coscarelli

Cast:

Writer:

Don Coscarelli

Paul Pepperman

Fullplot:

Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth, so he is sent to grow up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages. He discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals, and after that, Dar begins his quest for revenge in this Conan-like movie.

Phantasm II

Phantasm II

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-07-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (8773 Reviews)

Director:

Don Coscarelli

Fullplot:

Mike is released from psychiatry, when he agrees with the doctors that the terrible happenings in his past were just in his imagination. But once he's free, he contacts Redge and they team up to hunt down and eliminate the "Tall Man", who plunders the graveyards and abducts the sleeping with help of his terrible gnomes. A beautiful strange girl starts to appear in Mike's dreams. He assumes she's in danger and needs their help - will they find her before the Tall Man can do her any harm?

Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead

Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-05-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(5159 Reviews)

Director:

Don Coscarelli

Fullplot:

The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends and enemies. They also must contend with the resurrected dead plus a growing number of the infamous and deadly silver spheres which aid the Tall Man as he sets his sights on indoctrinating Mike and finishing the fight begun so many years ago.

Bubba Ho-Tep

Bubba Ho-Tep

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-10-10

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (37342 Reviews)

Director:

Don Coscarelli

Cast:

Writer:

Joe R. Lansdale (short story)

Don Coscarelli (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.

John Dies at the End

John Dies at the End

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-01-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (26894 Reviews)

Director:

Don Coscarelli

Cast:

Writer:

Don Coscarelli (written for the screen by)

David Wong (based on the story by)

Fullplot:

It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't.

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