Phantoms (film)
| Phantoms | |
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| Directed by | Joe Chappelle |
| Produced by |
Dean Koontz Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein |
| Screenplay by | Dean Koontz |
| Based on |
Phantoms by Dean Koontz |
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| Music by | David C. Williams |
| Cinematography | Greg Littlewood Richard Clabaugh |
| Edited by | Randolph Bricker |
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Dimension Films
NEO Motion Pictures |
| Distributed by | Miramax |
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Running time
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5.6 million |
Phantoms is a 1998 American science fiction horror film adapted from Dean Koontz's 1983 novel of the same name. Directed by Joe Chappelle with a screenplay by Koontz, the film stars Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, and Clifton Powell. The film takes place in the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado, where something evil has wiped out the community. It is up to a group of people to stop it or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Dr. Jennifer Pailey brings her sister Lisa to the resort town of Snowfield, Colorado, a small ski resort village nestled in the Rocky Mountains where Jenny works as a doctor. Once in town, the sisters find no one around but a few corpses. At first, their suspicions are that of a serial killer loose in town. After finding the severed heads of the town baker and his wife in an oven, the sisters are found by Sheriff Bryce Hammond, a former FBI agent haunted by the death of a boy he accidentally killed, and his deputies Stu Wargle and Steve Shanning who came to investigate the strange killings.
When they arrive at a nearby hotel, the group finds the writing of a victim on the mirror reading Timothy Flyte. Moments later, Shanning investigates a sound outside with the others finding only his gun, hat and shoes while the rest of him is gone. Returning to the sheriff's office to request aid and create roadblocks around Snowfield, with Wargle revealed to be paranoid and immoral, the group gets a strange call before they are attacked by a strange moth-like creature that rips Wargle's face off prior to Bryce killing it. After implying the creature could be the Devil as it went after him first, Lisa later encounters Wargle while in the bathroom before she and others find his body missing from the morgue.
At that time, Bryce's FBI associates find Flyte, a British academic who theorized the Ancient Enemy, an entity he generalizes as "chaos in the flesh" that periodically wiped out civilizations including that of the Mayas and the Roanoke Island colonists. Joined by an Army commando unit to Snowfield with the Pailey sisters and Bryce meeting with him, Flyte accompanies a third of the commando group to investigate with him the only survivor of an attack by a creature in the form of a dog that converted the others in his group.
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