Phantasm

Phantasm (1979) is a cult American horror film you can watch online on iFILM. Teenage Mike has already lost his parents and dreads losing his older brother Jody, so he tails him everywhere. One night at the local cemetery he watches the mortician lift a coffin alone, as though it weighed nothing. From that moment the quiet town starts coming apart.

Behind the graveyard stands the Tall Man — a gaunt, white-haired giant played by Angus Scrimm, with eyes that hold no mercy. His tools come from somewhere else: hooded dwarf creatures, a gateway to another dimension, and a flying silver sphere that buries itself in your skull and drills. Mike, Jody and their ice-cream-truck friend Reggie are pulled into a fight where waking life and nightmare keep bleeding into each other.

Don Coscarelli shot it on almost no money with family and friends, and that scrappiness is exactly what gives the film its dream logic — what unsettles you isn't the gore but the sense that reality's rules have quietly been cancelled. It spawned a whole franchise, and the Tall Man and his sphere became horror icons. If you love scares built on bad-dream atmosphere rather than jump cuts, this one lands. Stream Phantasm (1979) online on iFILM.