This Day in Halloween: Filmmaker Don Coscarelli's indie supernatural zombie hit "Phantasm" opens across the U.S. in 1979. / Illustration by Presley Rodriguez
Phantasm opens across the U.S. in 1979. Written, directed, shot and edited by Don Coscarelli, the indie fantasy horror about a supernatural undertaker who turns the dead into zombie slaves becomes a cult favorite and is followed by four sequels.
