Jamie 🎃

I mostly tweet about movies (mainly horror) & video games.

[Hollywood Horror Museum @horrormuseum]

Rest in peace legend

[Don Coscarelli @DonCoscarelli]

REGGIE BANNISTER
(1945-2026)

I lost my hero yesterday.
I am very sorry to report that my dear friend and collaborator, Reggie Bannister, died yesterday at age 80.

I first met Reggie when I was 18 years old. I was deep into production on my first feature film Jim The World's Greatest. He had invited producer Paul Pepperman and I down to the Wooden Keg, a dive bar in Long Beach, CA to meet about it. Reg was performing a spirited set that night on guitar and vocals and the audience loved his songs and infectious personality. After his set, we introduced ourselves, intent on convincing him to co-star in the project. "A feature film, huh?" he asked. "Far out, man." Reggie then ordered us all a round of beers. It was the first alcoholic drink I'd ever been served (illegally) at a bar. With four words, Reg toasted with a clink of his glass, "Count me in, boys!"

Little did I know that night would lead to literally a lifetime of working together with him on many films. In the Phantasm series, only Reggie could turn a simple role as an ice cream vendor sidekick into an unlikely action hero for the ages.

He channeled himself into that role. All the fans who met him at the horror conventions could attest that in-person, Reg was cool, funny, loyal, and steadfast. Reggie the character was Reggie the friend. In real life, he embodied all the qualities of his character in Phantasm and no one questioned that Reg was that guy, the one willing to lay his body down on the fires of hell for his friends.

Reggie was born in Long Beach and was naturally attracted to the arts from an early age. He was a founding member of The Greenwood County singers with music legend Van Dyke Parks. Still in his teens, his popular folk band toured the country until Reg received his draft notice and was called to serve a tour of duty in the Vietnam War.

He came back from the war determined to pursue a life of peace and creativity. He threw himself into musical projects and then acting. In addition to co-starring in my first three films, Reg starred in all the Phantasm sequels, and made significant appearances in both Survival Quest and Bubba Ho-tep. His improvised scene with Bruce Campbell in Bubba in which the two men argue about a scarab beetle infestation in Elvis's rest home is a classic. He went on to star in dozens of independent films, always enthusiastic about supporting first-time directors.

Along the way, Reggie kept up his music, releasing many well-received albums. He also partnered with his wife Gigi Bannister in a successful entertainment production company, Production Magic Inc., producing live event, musical and film projects.

Reggie is predeceased by his father Horace, his mother Evelyn and brother Ronald. He is survived by his lovely daughter, Ellen and his devoted wife, Gigi. Reggie Bannister was a gifted creative collaborator, a dear friend and he will be sincerely missed. Yes, Reg, to me and your legion of fans, you'll always be "Hot as Love."

[Jamie 🎃 @JCX1994]

Holy 💩, they dropped a Lord of The Rings War in The North remaster out of nowhere. I'm begging for a Third Age remake next.

[Smilee @CMSmilee]

The Jamaican thundercats been in my head for years

[Jamie 🎃 @JCX1994]

Kojima!

Bring Death Stranding 2 to Xbox and my life Is yours.

[Friday The 13th: The Franchise 🪓 @F13thFranchise]

HAPPY 40th ANNIVERSARY Jason Lives: #FridayThe13th Part VI!

The final film in the Tommy Jarvis trilogy opened with a cemetery resurrection and a James Bond title sequence homage this day in 1986.

[Hollywood Horror Museum @horrormuseum]

We love this film, it's scary, weird and disturbing, and the music is amazing!

[𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 @HauntedMovies]

Opera (1987) dir. Dario Argento

[𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 @HauntedMovies]

Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch

[RockWave @rockwavefm]

The Smashing Pumpkins
“Bullet With Butterfly Wings”

[Memory Card @MemoryCardFiles]

Family Guy Video Game! (2006)

[𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 @HauntedMovies]

The Lair of the White Worm (1988) dir. Ken Russell

[Game Unlocked @gameunlocked26]

Jackass: The Game (2007 Game)

[Bloody Disgusting @BDisgusting]

FREDDY'S BACK.

A new NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET movie is finally in development... at Paramount!

"We look forward to bringing the world of Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street to a new and completely engaged generation of fans."

Source: @THR

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

Tonight, in memory of Sam Neill, I’m revisiting John Carpenter’s “In the Mouth of Madness” (1994) on Blu-ray.

R.I.P.

[Brad @ Dread Central @DreadCentral]

'EVIL DEAD BURN' director Sébastien Vaniček wants to remake 'THE MASK'... but as the brutally violent horror comic that inspired it.

This is a movie I desperately want to see.

Read more: [https://t.co/MnRtoaa9qt]

[Jamie 🎃 @JCX1994]

@horrormuseum Repossessed. A Leslie Nielsen Exorcist spoof so good I treat as the true Exorcist 2. 😅

Also has Linda Blair being repossessed.