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Directed by | Joe Chappelle |
Screenplay by | Dean Koontz |
Based on | Phantoms by Dean Koontz |
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Cinematography | Richard Clabaugh |
Edited by | Randolph Bricker |
Music by | David C. Williams |
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Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $12-16 million[1] |
Box office | $5.6 million |
Phantoms is a 1998 American science fiction horror film adapted from Dean Koontz's 1983 novel of the same name. Directed by Joe Chappelle with a screenplay by Koontz, the film stars Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt and Clifton Powell. The film takes place in the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado, where something evil has wiped out the community. It is up to a group of people to stop it or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
While Koontz's novel included many literary references to the work of H. P. Lovecraft, these are largely absent from the film.[2]