DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger

2020

Animation / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery

4
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 1539 1.5K

superhero anime short film

Plot summary

Jess joins her friends at a party in a dilapidated mansion hosted by the mysterious Seth. When odd things begin to happen to Jess and her friends, the Phantom Stranger intervenes to save her from a dreary fate.

Director

Bruce W. Timm Photo
Bruce W. Timm

Top cast

Grey Griffin Photo
Grey Griffin as Dee Dee
Michael Rosenbaum Photo
Michael Rosenbaum as Seth
Peter Serafinowicz Photo
Peter Serafinowicz as The Phantom Stranger
Roger Craig Smith Photo
Roger Craig Smith as Harry
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
138.94 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
12 hr 15 min
Seeds 24
257.99 MB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
12 hr 15 min
Seeds 37

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dasa108 7 / 10

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.
Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 6 / 10

Really solid, makes me hope for more

Reviewed by lennieh 1 / 10

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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