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Phantoms (1998)

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01:10-02:40 Sun 18th Jan 2015 90m
BBC1

Synopsis

This is a curiously clunky mix of sci-fi and horror from Miramax offshoot Dimension Films, a company that revitalised the teen horror market with movies such as Scream and The Faculty. Rose McGowan (Charmed) and Joanna Going play sisters who return to their isolated home town and discover that virtually everyone has vanished. Ben Affleck plays the puzzled local cop and Peter O'Toole hams it up as a dotty scientist who holds the key to the mystery. However, despite the presence of Scream alumni McGowan and Liev Schreiber and a script from horror maestro Dean R Koontz (adapting his own novel), this fails in the fright department, with too much talk and not enough gore.