They had on the “filme horreur” PHANTASM the other night and in trying to figure things out I surfed on the internet and found whole sites on it, but they don’t explain anything . 1. First of all, why did that young kid look like a girl, and only later we find out this is a boy? 2. When the older actors are done with the funeral, they say let’s get out of this town like they just came for the funeral from somewhere else, but then they apparently live there!
The boy runs to a house and an old lady is sitting there with candles or something and is never seen again, but I thought she must be the villain and her granddaughter was the woman who killed the man in the first scene, but she wasn’t. On the PHANTASM sites she is referred to as the Lavender Lady and she turns into The Tall Man.
3.Anyway what I really want to know is HOW DID THE BOY KNOW JUST BY ENTERING A STRANGE PLACE WHERE HE WAS FALLING THAT THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING WAS THAT THE TALL MAN WAS KILLING PEOPLE, MAKING DWARFS OUT OF THEM, AND SENDING THEM TO ANOTHER PLANET? There was no way he could have figured this out from what was shown.
4.And why make dwarfs out of dead people? You might as well make giants out of them if you are going to use them for working on another planet. However, it is still fascinating anyway, and those little dwarf coffins were quite imaginative and eerie. I guess we are just supposed to enjoy the weird atmosphere and maybe we are supposed to think that all these oddities symbolize that the boy is dreaming, which I think we are supposed to think he was. They get The Tall Man to fall down into an old mineshaft and somehow boulders then fall on him from an avalanche, but the boy doesn’t believe this will keep him down. It was all a dream but then he looks behind him in his room and there is the Tall Man hanging on a hook on his door and coming after him!
It was the 1970s. Hair was longer then.
Since the brothers’ parents are dead, there is nothing to keep them in town, so they decide to leave.
It’s been too long since I’ve seen it, so I can’t answer about the girl. IIRC, she and her grandmother gave the kid clues as to what was going on.
Again, it’s been a long time. I don’t think he knew what was happening. I think he entered the “strange place”, as you say, to try to find out why weird stuff was happening.
I think that was explained in the movie. They were made into dwarves because the planet they were being sent to had higher gravity than Earth’s. A short, squat body would work better than a tall thin one.
Aw, geez. Now I’m going to have to buy the DVD.