Don Coscarelli
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Sep 23, 2026
GressilPANELIST
You know?
James A. JanisseHOST
Do you feel like this is Don Coscarelli telling you about a dream he had and you're like, "Uh, that's interesting, I guess"?
GressilPANELIST
Yeah.
GressilPANELIST
Yeah, I do.
SamHOST
So the silver balls, the sentinels, what are they? They're the weapons that the Talmian uses to suck out brains.
SamHOST
They come from a dream that creator Don Coscarelli had.
SamHOST
There are several varieties.
SamHOST
There's the silver ball made from the brains of dead human beings.
William BibbianiHOST
on.
Whitney SeiboldHOST
I got to say that to Don Coscarelli, who directed Beastmaster.
William BibbianiHOST
It's
Whitney SeiboldHOST
like, have you heard the joke? HBO stands for, hey, Beastmaster's on.
Jef OvernHOST
okay? That's cool, yeah.
Jef OvernHOST
Orphanage is like Don Coscarelli's kids and some other people's children.
Jef OvernHOST
It's just like
Brian HendersonHOST
you just, the people around you just put
Robert GalluzzoHOST
It just feels like a cool franchise to revisit.
Robert GalluzzoHOST
You're pretty pivotal in the Phantasm world, and in particular in Don Coscarelli's world.
Robert GalluzzoHOST
You've done plenty of films with him, Bubba Hotep being one of my all-time favorites.
Robert GalluzzoHOST
What does Phantasm mean to you in retrospect, especially because you got to do so many fun, radical things, especially two? Yeah.
Mike PameroGUEST
Yeah
Patrick BromleyHOST
... that's a very young Catherine Keener." Um, she's in, like, a Don Coscarelli movie, uh, Survival Quest.
Mike PameroGUEST
Oh.
Patrick BromleyHOST
That-
Adam BarnickPANELIST
So I'd love to see, like, I feel like if he got to shoot everything he wanted to be neat to see a recut where he makes it vaguer as to what's a dream and what is it, you know? Yeah.
Robert GalluzzoHOST
I mean, is there a Don Coscarelli director's cut of Stanton? I don't think
Adam BarnickPANELIST
so.
Adam BarnickPANELIST
I mean, like the new box set has restored the scene with the priest getting sphere
RyanHOST
Today we're talking Don Coscarelli's Phantasm II
SeanHOST
And we're asking the big questions like, what's better than a double barrel shotgun? Answer: a double double-barrel shotgun.
RyanHOST
Gas up the Cuda, pick up a hitchhiker, and hold onto your golden orbs.
Adam WingardGUEST
But the thing that I didn't tell him is that in Death Note, we used a clip from Phantasm.
Adam WingardGUEST
And I'd met Don Coscarelli, you know, over the years at film festivals, you know, and we became friends and occasionally we'd go have like lunch together and stuff.
Adam WingardGUEST
And so like, without telling Matt, I also invited Don Coscarelli to the screening.
Adam WingardGUEST
So it was just me, Matt, and Don Coscarelli and Matt's friend, like watching Death Note.
Adam WingardGUEST
And so it was, you know, this is in retrospect, a very surreal, I don't, I don't think I was consciously necessarily trying to create a surreal experience.
Adam WingardGUEST
It was more like I needed to show both of them the movie.
Kevin MaherGUEST
Guess what it was? It was "Phantasm IV." So I felt a connection.
Kevin MaherGUEST
I met the filmmaker and all the actors, and they announced years later they were gonna reprint the novelization, which was written by Don Coscarelli's mother, Kate Coscarelli, who was a romance writer.
Kevin MaherGUEST
So I ordered the novelization and I got a copy, and then like two, two days later, I got another copy in the mail and they sent me two.
Kevin MaherGUEST
And I'm like-
Becky D'AnnaHOST
Yeah.
Kevin MaherGUEST
Years go by and I still have it.
Kevin MaherGUEST
I still have, I, I still had the book years later, and I read an article on thepinksmoke.com and the writer had such great insights and understanding of Don Coscarelli's film work.
Kevin MaherGUEST
I contacted him [chuckles] and I just said, "I wanted you to know this article is amazing." And we started emailing back and forth and I'm like, "Listen." "You're a special guy.
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