''Fantasm Comes Again'' is a 1977 Australian
softcore pornographic film. It is the sequel to ''
Fantasm
''Fantasm'' is a 1976 Australian softcore pornographic film, directed by Richard Franklin under a pseudonym. It was followed by a sequel, ''Fantasm Comes Again'', the following year, directed by a pseudonymous Colin Eggleston.
Plot
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Colin Eggleston
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Colin Richard Francis Eggleston (; 23 September 1941, Melbourne – 10 August 2002, Geneva) was an Australian writer and director of TV and films. He began his career making police dramas for Crawford Productions.
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Plot
Journalist Libbie is taking over the "Dear Collette" sex advice column at her newspaper from veteran reporter Harry, who is retiring. Over the course of one night, Harry talks Libbie through a series of letters from their readers. They include:
*rape in a drive in theatre
*teacher-student sex in a gym
*lesbian seduction in a barn
*a suburban orgy
*incest
*sex in a pool
*sex in a library
*oral sex on the road
*a threesome in an elevator
*sex between monks and a nun.
Cast
*Angela Menzies-Wills as Libbie
*Clive Hearne as Harry
;''Silence Please''
*Tom Thumb as Harold
*Liz Wolfe as Rita
*Rosemarie Bern as Cindy
*Christine De Shaffer as First Reader
*Pat Benco (Pat Manning) as Second Reader
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Martin Margulies
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Margulies Collection
For many years, Margulies maintained a publicly accessible sculpture garden on Grove Isle, a small, private island with condom ...
as Third Reader
;''Workout''
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Rick Cassidy
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as Mr Bates
*Michael Barton as Miss Peabody
;''Double Feature''
*Urias S. Cambridge as Bob
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Rainbeaux Smith
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as Carol
*Peter Kurzon as Ted
*Lois Owens as Alice
*Mike Stapp as Rapist
;''Going Up?''
*Suzy A. Star as Penny
*Amanda Smith as Sally
*Herb Layne as Bill
*Rhonda Willcox as First Onlooker
*Eve Darling as Second Onlooker
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Sam Menning
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Menning began his career in the 1950s as a photographer in New York City before switching to acting during the 1980s. His talent agent, Bonnie H ...
as Third Onlooker
;''Straw Dolls''
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Uschi Digard
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Early years
When asked of her childhood, she has said,
She had a convent education and learned various lan ...
as Leslie
*Dee Dee Levitt as Bianca
*Dee Cooper as Jake
;''The Good Old Gang at the Office''
*Con Covert as Mr. Clark
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Lem Lary as Mr. Davis
*Brenda Fogarty as Miss Christie
*Bryant Rigby as Tony
*Elaine Collins as Miss Ford
*Helen O'Connell as Miss Carter
*Pat Benco (Pat Manning) as First Guest
*Titus Moede as Second Guest
*P.J. Jackson as Lollipop
*Winston as El Che
*Candy Fox as Yellow Rose
;''The Kiss of Life''
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Bill Margold
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Known as Bill Margold, he was a former director of the Free Speech Coalition and was a co-founder of X-Rated Critics Organiza ...
as Tony
*Suzanne Walsh as Samantha
*Linda York as Jo
*Mary Johnson as Terri
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John C. Holmes
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as Stud
*Titus Moede as Moody
;''Family Reunion''
*Al Ward as Uncle Fred
*Mary Gavin (Candy Samples) as Frances
*Nancy Mann as Virginia
*Kodax as Fluffy
;''Overdrive''
*Jesse Adams as Sterling
*Christine De Shaffer as Carol
;''True Confession''
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Serena as Imogene
*Michael Karnitz as Joe
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Antony I. Ginnane
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A CD of themes from fourteen of his films was produced in 2008 b ...
as Monk
Production
The linking scenes between the two journalists were shot in Australia, and the sex scenes were filmed over 12 days in Los Angeles by an Australian director and cinematographer, using American porn stars.
The budget was larger on the sequel in an attempt to attract a bigger audience; in contrast with the original, where only one of the ten stories was lip sync and the rest in voice over, all the stories in ''Fantasm Comes Again'' had lip sync dialogue. Ginnane later thought this was a mistake as it distracted from what was on screen.
Reception
The film sold well around the world but was not as popular as ''Fantasm'' at the Australian box office.
Ginnane blamed the fact by the time it was released there was a glut of sex films on the market and the delay caused by censorship hold ups. (In 1980 David Stratton called it "the most censored of the new Australian films."
[David Stratton, ''The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival'', Angus & Robertson, 1980 p250]) By 1979 the film had not yet broken even but Ginnane was confident that would be the case.
Ginnane later said that he felt Colin Eggleston was just as competent a director as
Richard Franklin but thought his sense of humour was different "and perhaps it didn't suit the material as well".
References
External links
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''Fantasm Comes Again''at Oz Movies
{{Colin Eggleston
1977 films
Australian pornographic films
1970s English-language films
1970s pornographic films
Films directed by Colin Eggleston
Films shot in Australia
Films shot in Los Angeles