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DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger

  • 2020
  • 15m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
1.5K
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DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger (2020)
AnimationFantasyHorrorMysteryShort

A young girl, seeking adventure and emancipation from her "establishment" parents, is taken, by a band of hippie acolytes, to meet their guru. Can even the mystical power of The Phantom Stra... Read allA young girl, seeking adventure and emancipation from her "establishment" parents, is taken, by a band of hippie acolytes, to meet their guru. Can even the mystical power of The Phantom Stranger help Marcie to find her own truth?A young girl, seeking adventure and emancipation from her "establishment" parents, is taken, by a band of hippie acolytes, to meet their guru. Can even the mystical power of The Phantom Stranger help Marcie to find her own truth?

  • Director
    • Bruce Timm
  • Writers
    • Ernie Altbacker
    • John Broome
    • Carmine Infantino
  • Stars
    • Peter Serafinowicz
    • Grey Griffin
    • Natalie Lander
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    1.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Bruce Timm
    • Writers
      • Ernie Altbacker
      • John Broome
      • Carmine Infantino
    • Stars
      • Peter Serafinowicz
      • Grey Griffin
      • Natalie Lander
    • 8User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Peter Serafinowicz
    Peter Serafinowicz
    • The Phantom Stranger
    • (voice)
    Grey Griffin
    Grey Griffin
    • Dee Dee
    • (voice)
    • …
    Natalie Lander
    Natalie Lander
    • Marcie
    • (voice)
    Michael Rosenbaum
    Michael Rosenbaum
    • Seth
    • (voice)
    Roger Craig Smith
    Roger Craig Smith
    • Harry
    • (voice)
    • …
    • Director
      • Bruce Timm
    • Writers
      • Ernie Altbacker
      • John Broome
      • Carmine Infantino
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    7dasa108

    A nice tribute to a legendary character

    This is a movie that uses the same animation from the 1990s when it comes to DC. That is welcome. The short is well put together: the characters are shown in such a way that one manages to understand the stupidity of all of them and suspect that one of them will have its great moment of redemption. The protagonist of the story appears in a mysterious way and acting as a voice of conscience offers one opportunity after another to do things right. The villain will not make things easy and the final duel has twists and turns and a welcome outcome. There is a moral background with which I would not necessarily fully agree. However as short it works and that is what is expected.
    3ashfordofficial

    Not good

    Eerie and morbid. Lots of philosophical undertones. The animation style reminded me of OG Ben 10.

    DC needs to bring more underdog characters like this in the DCEU fold. These characters will make the DCEU brand thrive for years to come.
    8Milk_Tray_Guy

    Nice horror yarn

    I enjoyed this. Definite shades of Scooby-Doo at the beginning. Only minus for me was Peter Serafinowicz's voice acting. I know Phantom Stranger is a powerful being entitled to make proclamations when he wants, but he sounded too 'hammy' compared to the rest of the cast, like he was in a stage production. Still an 8/10 though.
    10GoldenBeard

    best shorts ever from DC

    Nice ambience and best background theme, perfectly sync with story.
    1lennieh

    Unbelievably bad

    Where to start? Terrible 1960's style parody animation, Scooby Doo parody characters, bad graphic design and titles...The story, such as it is, has been done better a dozen times before, the music is terrible and the "psychedelic" effects look like they were done by a five year old, throwing oil on a puddle and a supposed master sorcerer mispronouncing Ouroboros is unforgivable and then... OH boy... and then Peter Serophinorwitz doing the worst Mike Berry impersonation imaginable for the voice of the Phantom Stranger to the point where the cringe factor makes you want to chew your own ears off! Serophinorwitz is awful at the best of times but here, he really abuses the privilege. All in all not what you would expect from Bruce Timm unless he is deliberately trying to wreck his own career.

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      The hippies would appear to be a pastiche of the Scooby Doo gang sans Scooby himself.
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      Edited into Batman: Death in the Family (2020)

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    • Release date
      • February 25, 2020 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • DC Showcase: El extraño extraño
    • Production companies
      • DC Entertainment
      • Warner Bros. Animation
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      15 minutes
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