Phantasm is my 2nd favorite horror movie 2nd to the original Dawn Of The Dead being my first. I had the great pleasure of finally watching Don Coscarelli's Kenny And Company and I enjoyed this movie immensely. It's in the tradition of Tom Sawyer, and was made before Stand By Me. You can probably say that it's way before Diary Of A Wimpy Kid but I never read that book or seen that movie.
It goes into the life of a 12 year named Kenny . He has his fun, his friends, his sadness, and even a bully and his first girl friend. It covers a couple of days of his life leading up to Halloween.
(Spoiler paragraph) This is a fun movie to watch. The tag line: "Meet Kenny, the kid next door. He'll be eleven tomorrow. He'll be your pal forever". That tag line rings true. You will like this 11 year old and his friends especially Doug (A. Michael Baldwin now Michael Baldwin) of Phantasm, Phantasm 3, and 4. There's also an appearance from Reggie Banister as one of the teachers. Sorry, there is no tall man but there is a lady in a bed with a shotgun and a monster played by ? as it's said in the credits. It also deals a little with a death of a pet and a little about the topic of death which I found both sad and interesting especially in a movie like this.
Later, Don Coscarelli would make Phantasm with Michael Baldwin in the title role and of course, with the great Reggie Bannister. One thing good about these two movies are the characters, you love the characters. Both in Phantasm, and Kenny and Company, I wished that I was one of the characters that knew them even if in Phantasm I might have ended up dead with the tall man's wrath. In Friday The 13th, or for Elm Street's characters - I could of cared less.
All in all, I would love to find this movie on DVD w/extras. I wonder what happened with the star of this movie Dan McCann who played Kenny or the actor who played the secret service agent, the bully and especially Sherman sort of the whipping boy for Kenny and Doug like Stewart was to Beavis and Butthead? I say Kenny and Doug were the direct opposites of Beavis and Butthead.
It goes into the life of a 12 year named Kenny . He has his fun, his friends, his sadness, and even a bully and his first girl friend. It covers a couple of days of his life leading up to Halloween.
(Spoiler paragraph) This is a fun movie to watch. The tag line: "Meet Kenny, the kid next door. He'll be eleven tomorrow. He'll be your pal forever". That tag line rings true. You will like this 11 year old and his friends especially Doug (A. Michael Baldwin now Michael Baldwin) of Phantasm, Phantasm 3, and 4. There's also an appearance from Reggie Banister as one of the teachers. Sorry, there is no tall man but there is a lady in a bed with a shotgun and a monster played by ? as it's said in the credits. It also deals a little with a death of a pet and a little about the topic of death which I found both sad and interesting especially in a movie like this.
Later, Don Coscarelli would make Phantasm with Michael Baldwin in the title role and of course, with the great Reggie Bannister. One thing good about these two movies are the characters, you love the characters. Both in Phantasm, and Kenny and Company, I wished that I was one of the characters that knew them even if in Phantasm I might have ended up dead with the tall man's wrath. In Friday The 13th, or for Elm Street's characters - I could of cared less.
All in all, I would love to find this movie on DVD w/extras. I wonder what happened with the star of this movie Dan McCann who played Kenny or the actor who played the secret service agent, the bully and especially Sherman sort of the whipping boy for Kenny and Doug like Stewart was to Beavis and Butthead? I say Kenny and Doug were the direct opposites of Beavis and Butthead.