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Watch Touching Memorial Tribute to ‘Phantasm’ Star Angus Scrimm

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This year started off on a very sad note here in the horror community with the January passing of icon Angus Scrimm, but we were all smiles last week when Phantasm: Ravager, along with newly restored versions of the previous films in the franchise, were finally unleashed. Scrimm will live on forever as the terrifying Tall Man, and we take great comfort in that.

Prior to screenings of Phantasm: Remastered and Phantasm: Ravager that took place earlier this month at Durham, NC’s Carolina Theatre, a Phantasm tribute video titled Journey to Ravager was shown off, and franchise fan Dustin McNeill took it upon himself to edit that video into an absolutely beautiful memorial tribute to the late Angus Scrimm. This is merely an excerpt of the full video, and it contains behind-the-scenes footage and images that have never before been seen.

The memorial video also includes a touching theme song by Lito Velasco titled “For Angus,” which is based on the iconic Phantasm theme. Said Velasco:

I wanted the theme we know and love to evolve as the footage changed in tone. To become something more ethereal, loving, and spiritual while also retaining the shape and structural basis of the original tune.

Check out the video below. Bless you for putting this together, Dustin.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.

A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.

Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.

Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”

“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.

“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”

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