Get your massive Stetson Hat on! We're heading to Snowfield Colorado with Lawrence of Arabia!
This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik dissect Dean R. Koontz's Phantoms, the 1998 sci-fi-horror-thriller-mystery-goo-creature-feature where Ben Affleck plays a sheriff (?!), Peter O’Toole delivers deep lore like he’s in Hamlet, and the villain is... a sentient oil slick with a library card.
They unpack the film’s baffling character choices, weirdly calm victims, and Liev Schreiber as the weirdest deputy sheriff in Colorado, even before he encounters the creatures! From spastic cinematography to on-the nose dialogue, they ask the big questions: How did this happen? Why did this happen? And who looked at Ben Affleck in 1998 and said, “Yes. Him. He should lead us against the ancient evil.”
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