A well-made and unsettling horror film.

65.875

I liked the sort of dreamlike, isolated feeling. Like, how the characters on screen seem to be the only characters that exist in the movie's reality, but only when on screen and anytime someone new is introduced it almost seems like they just materialize out of thin air.

The best in the series, a classic.

Very 70's, but unique. Terrible acting, awesome sound design.

Cheesy and fun and worthwhile on its own merits, but it's especially cool to see all the working elements that provided a template for mainstream horror films in the '80s.

A truly original horror movie, written, directed, co-produced, photographed, and edited by twenty-one-year-old Coscarelli. It's full of unforgettable images, including a sinister hearse and a deadly, flying silver ball.

It's easy to see why this became an enduring one-of-a-kind cult fave and why Coscarelli and crew couldn't quite recapture the black magic in the widely separated sequels.

Some genuinely distubing stuff in this iconic horror film. The Tall Man is so freaking scary, but I really think the whole alien tie-in was what made this movie and its franchise pretty weak.

Fairly interesting horror flick. I am not a big fan of the genre but this one had enough odd, creepy moments I was entertained.

Surreal horror flick involving a series of strange occurrences at a creepy funeral home. It's got alternate realities, flying steel balls that drill into people's heads, and scaly dwarf creatures...a little something for everyone. This wasn't really scary but it was weird as fuck.

Well I was in the mood for a horror flick, so I found this one on netflix. Definitely not the best horror film I've seen, but there are plenty worse. Kind of weird/unique. Not exactly scary, but I'm sure it gave some people the frights in the 70s. Not exactly the finest acting, but the story is the best part of the film. I kind of liked the ending surprisingly.

Pathetic acting, cheesy cinematography and ridiculous script with a silly plot twist...

This movie is awesome up until the last 20 minutes, then it just gets very odd (but then again, flying spheres aren't?). The tall man character is creepy as hell, and I like that they keep him very mysterious. Stay away from the sequels though.

boring and ridiculous

The absurd feeling of this flick is the source of much of its horror, and the flying death-spheres provide the gore to give this old classic plenty of staying power.

Still Don Coscarelli's finest hour. Extremely hard to describe, but it's an interesting mish-mash of ideas that come together to create a really fun horror film.

BOOOOOOOYYYYY!!! e: Damn it, someone else beat me to it.

respectable indie horror effort

The plot seems to revolve around a tall funeral-home owner who enslaves dwarves (or converts human corpses into dwarves?) for use on his home planet. Also, his levitating "sentinel sphere" ejects a fountain of blood once it impales your face. Cheap effects, bad acting, incoherent plot, stoopid scares: clearly Coscarelli made this up as he went along. I enjoy it for its groovy randomness and humid seventies drive-in vibe. Essential for fans of watching the '71 Plymouth Barracuda too.