Phantoms (1998)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.0/10   

Director:

Joe Chappelle

Escritores (WGA):

Dean R. Koontz (novel)
Dean R. Koontz (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

23 enero 1998 (USA)

Género:

Suspenso | Horror | Drama

Frase comercial:

For centuries they told us the terror would come from above. We've been looking the wrong way.

Plot:

150 dead and 350 missing in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, Colorado. And that's only the beginning...

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Alien | Death | Shot To Death | Severed Face

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Dean Koontz novel gets better-than-average execution on screen

Reparto

Ben Affleck	...	Sheriff Bryce Hammond
Peter O'Toole	...	Dr. Timothy Flyte
Rose McGowan	...	Lisa Pailey
Joanna Going	...	Jennifer Pailey, M.D.
Liev Schreiber	...	Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
Nicky Katt	...	Deputy Steve Shanning
Clifton Powell	...	Gen. Leland Copperfield
Rick Otto	...	Scientist Lockland
Valerie Chow	...	Scientist Yamaguchi (as Rachel Shane)
Adam Nelson	...	Scientist Burke
John Hammil	...	Scientist Talbot
John Scott Clough	...	Scientist Shane
Michael DeLorenzo	...	Soldier Velazquez (as Michael Delorenzo)
William Hahn	...	Scientist Borman
Robert Himber	...	Scientist Walker

También conocida como:

Dean Koontz's Phantoms (USA) (complete title)
Fantasmas (Argentina) (video title) [es]
Phantoms (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for sci-fi violence/gore and language.

Duración:

96 min | Argentina:92 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | Ireland:18 | Australia:MA | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | Germany:16 | Norway:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:PG | UK:15 | USA:R | Argentina:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Colorado, USA

Compañía:

Dimension Films

Trivialidades:

The "flatworm theory" used in the movie (that flatworms can eat the remains of their own kind and absorb their knowledge) is based on actual tests given to flatworms which involved seeing how quickly they would make the "correct" turn at a Y-intersection after eating the previous experimenters. The results were more inconclusive than the film says.

Errores:

Errores cometidos por los personajes (posiblemente errores deliberados por los cineastas): At the beginning of the film, Lisa Pailey is asking what the population of the little Colorado ski-town is. Her sister says, "The population is 400, but in the summer all the tourists flock in and there's more like 4000". If it's a ski-tourist town, there would be more people in the winter instead of the summer.

Citas:

Deputy Wargle: Oh, you've got some guns, ladies, you wouldn't shoot an unarmed man would you?
[both women cock shotguns and point them at him]
Deputy Wargle: That's a dumb question.

Conexiones de Película:

References The Blob (1988)

Banda de Sonido:

I FALL TO PIECES

Dean Koontz novel gets better-than-average execution on screen

Phantoms (1998) Ben Affleck, Peter O' Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Nicky Katt, Clifton Powell, D: Joe Chappelle. When two sisters drive into a small Colorado town, they find the whole place depopulated, but corpses keep turning up. What caused it: disease or something else? Enter sheriff Affleck and his snickering deputy (Schreiber), who are just as clueless about these unexplained happenings as they are. Then an army of scientists and a professor-turned-tabloid journalist (O' Toole) come into the scene, discovering what wiped out the 500 residents came from deep underground. Better-than-average from a Dean Koontz novel, written by its author and well-acted for a thriller this ridiculous, that really pushes your buttons with suspenseful scenes and doesn't need to rely fully on special effects. O' Toole's character makes little sense, and we don't believe Affleck's chief graduated from Harvard. Running Time: 91 minutes and rated R for sci-fi violence, gore, and language. ** ½