When I presented my stack of spec scripts for a proposed Phantasm TV series to Don Coscarelli ... including a mini-adaptation of the movies. Don had really liked that. Don stopped backing away.

It’s more of a detective story than any Batman movie since Phantasm, and the most film noir entry in the entire franchise, a mystery that reveals deeper levels of systemic corruption at every turn.

Each of these pieces of the plot works together perfectly to illustrate this, particularly since Mask of the Phantasm is as much of a tragic romance as it is a superhero movie. To this day ...