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Buy This Item Phantoms  Available from Amazon  Click 'BUY IT NOW' to get price.  on 11-29-2008     Either Dean Koontz shouldn't adapt his own bestsellers, or his 1983 novel <i>Phantoms</i> was a pack of horror clichés to begin with, or this movie is 15 years past its due date. What might have seemed fresh at the time of <i>Poltergeist</i> now feels like it was made from a derivative script with pages missing. Plagued by reckless leaps of logic, the movie starts with adequately eerie atmosphere and a perversely twisted performance by <i>Scream 2</i>'s Liev Schreiber, but decays into a familiar hash of gross-out effects, resulting from the annihilation of a small Colorado town by an evil force known as "The Ancient Enemy." In a dreary role that insults the twilight of his distinguished career, Peter O'Toole plays a paleobiologist whose crackpot ideas have become tabloid fodder, but he holds the key to conquering the beast. Or does he? Sure enough, an obligatory coda leaves room for anticlimactic doubt. <i>Phantoms</i> has a few genuinely creepy highlights, including a devilish beastie resembling an angry flying scorpion, and horror fans will surely find something to admire, but everyone else is advised to proceed with caution and lowered expectations. <i>--Jeff Shannon</i> Reader Reviews The seller of this item was great. Shipped fast and wonderful communications. HOWEVER - The movie itself was awful. After reading the book the movie was a major disappointment. Don't waste your money

Phantoms Available from Amazon Price: Click 'BUY IT NOW' to get price. Updated on 11-29-2008.

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