This is a rip off of Phantasm. Even has a music queue that sounds just like the Phantasm theme.
Then there is a song in the beginning that is a blatant rip off of Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan which is called Zodiak. Hurdy Gurdy Man bookends the movie... Zodiac.
What's really going on here? And why was it so long and boring?
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Literally nothing like Phantasm. Like at all. Not even the same theme. If anything it's similar to Jeepers Creepers.
Youre totally wrong.
A boy in a small town trying to figure out why people are dying or going missing. An old man who is an "alien" doing the killing. It even uses theme music similar to Phantasm's main theme. And a lot of it takes place at a funeral parlor.
This was def inspired by phantasm. Sure it leaves out the dream theme and flying balls and a kick ass ice cream man... but yeah... Phantasm.
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Just because a premise is similar, doesn't mean that it's a rip off. By that logic, "It" is a rip off of Phantasm too, and so is Supernatural. I don't know about the music, it's a low budget film and the filmmakers were probably looking for inspiration, and you can't condemn them for that. You aren't always going to come up with an original idea that hasn't ever been done before ever.
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There might be similarities in the overall plot structure (teen boy investigating suspicious deaths), but the themes and the character types are completely different.
In Phantasm you have a boy mourning the death of his parents (and also, apparently, the loss of his older brother). In I am Not a Serial Killer the main emotional driver is the main character's concern/obsession with his own sociopathy and whether or not he is predestined to kill/hurt those around him.
In Phantasm the bad guy is an alien/being from another dimension who is exploiting/enslaving humans for some unknown reason. In I am Not a Serial Killer, the bad guy is some sort of fairy-tale creature who is killing so that he may remain human to be with the woman he loves. The motivations of the villains are very different. I'd say that even the presence of the two villains are very different: the menacing, super-strong Tall Man compared to the killer who needs help using the toilet.
I think that I am Not a Serial Killer does echo some of Phantasm's dreamy, small-town surrealism. I would agree that stylistically/atmosphere-wise there are similarities. But I am Not a Serial Killer is doing enough creative things on its own to not be anywhere near rip-off territory.
Nope. Not even close.
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