Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the cemetery, The Tall Man and Don Coscarelli 's weird-ass horror franchise return to drive balls through your skulls. Sounds kinda perverse when put that way, doesn't it? Mike, now released from a psychiatric hospital , continues his journey to stop the evil Tall Man and his grim work.

Given the pending release of Phantasm : Ravager, and having only caught the second instalment in Don Coscarelli 's cult franchise, I thought it best to go back and watch the entire series from the beginning. So how does the classic first flick stack up? Stick with me! A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man , who keep an arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

News broke just days ago that a fifth Phantasm movie was headed our way, and we were able to share the official poster with you fine Basementites. Now the teaser trailer has hit the Interwebs, and it looks . . . like a Phantasm movie!

Although not the biggest fan of Don Coscarelli 's Phantasm series -- I admit I've only seen the first two film -- I do have a lot of love for the man's work in general.  Bubba-Ho-Tep and John Dies at the End are just brilliant. The Beastmaster ? It owned when I was 10, but can't vouch for how it's held up.

Basement contributor Matt Bellamy has taken it upon himself to watch and review at least one horror movie a day for the month of October . . . because he's awesome that way! For his latest column Bellamy shows us why it's important to fear The Ball! I said ball, not balls. Grow up . . . boooyyyy! This film defies proper description in just about every way, easily one of the more bizarre horror franchises ever made but at the same time also one of the more striking and disturbing ones. The Tall Man is a horror villain who I don't think gets the same kind of deserved recognition as his brothers in arms such as Freddy, Jason, Michael Meyers, or Leatherface. He is creepy incarnate and I can understand why kids became terrified of him when the movie originally came out over 30 years ago now, and let's not forget that weird, deadly sphere he controls, messed right up!

For the record, director Don Coscarelli makes some very odd movies. Odd but cool, I might add. I mean he's the brainchild behind the Phantasm series and Bubba Ho-Tep for crying out loud! And now he's at it again with a big screen adaptation of David Wong's novel John Dies at the End. Judging from the trailer, this looks like some weird shat taken to the next level -- an interesting mix of early John Carpenter and David Cronenberg. Kinda. You'll have to watch and see for yourself. The film stars Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Angus Scrimm, Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Doug Jones, Glynn Turman and Daniel Roebuck. The plot, in a prolonged nutshell, is as follows: " It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is ...