Phantoms

Well-crafted in most aspects, "Phantoms" is finally more ambitious than satisfying. Friday January 23, 1998 There's much that's conventional about "Phantoms," a Dean Koontz tale of supernatural terror, but it does develop lofty intellectual ambitions and boasts a dry, witty performance by Peter O'Toole that lifts the level of the film beyond the routine. ... Full Review

Plagued by reckless leaps of logic, the movie starts with adequately eerie atmosphere and a perversely twisted performance by Scream 2 's Liev Schreiber, but decays into a familiar hash of gross-out effects, resulting from the annihilation of a small Colorado town by an evil force known as "The Ancient Enemy. ... Full Review

Plagued by reckless leaps of logic, the movie starts with adequately eerie atmosphere and a perversely twisted performance by Scream 2 's Liev Schreiber, but decays into a familiar hash of gross-out effects, resulting from the annihilation of a small Colorado town by an evil force known as "The Ancient Enemy. ... Full Review

Plagued by reckless leaps of logic, the movie starts with adequately eerie atmosphere and a perversely twisted performance by Scream 2 's Liev Schreiber, but decays into a familiar hash of gross-out effects, resulting from the annihilation of a small Colorado town by an evil force known as "The Ancient Enemy. ... Full Review

Author Koontz, a kind of low-end Stephen King, has pronounced himself satisfied with "Phantoms" - and well he should be, since he was scriptwriter and executive producer, and had final say on casting and choice of director. It's all stitched together and presented in a movie-of-the-week style, goosed up with some so-so special effects. ... Full Review

There's something embarrassing about watching a once-distinguished actor in a really bad movie -- like running into someone you used to know and admire begging for change. To Peter O'Toole's credit, he tries to rise above the nonsensical material he's been given in ``Phantoms,'' a horror movie that has the distinction of not even being scary. ... Full Review

To call Phantoms dissatisfying is to oversimplify the problem. So begins Dean Koontz's Phantoms , a horror film that starts out creepy but ends up disjointed and borderline- incoherent. It's the same old story: a promising premise, poorly realized. ... Full Review

There's only so much good actors and a skillful director can do with bad writing, and the cast and crew of "Phantoms" are saddled with as terrible a script as you can imagine. Affleck is good as ... Full Review

If you are in the mood for a good old-fashioned scare-fest, then PHANTOMS would be an ideal choice for an evenings entertainment. PHANTOMS is based upon the novel by fright master Dean Koontz, and features an effective screenplay by the author himself. ... Full Review

Phantoms is a suspenseful, relatively well done adaptation of the Koontz' novel. Phantoms feels rushed and so the satisfaction of a well played out story evades the viewer. The film maintains a moderate level of suspense throughout. ... Full Review