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Q: I'm trying to find the name of an old horror movie starring Ben Affleck. It was based on a Stephen King book or something, and it was about a town that had hundreds of people going missing because of some weird entity.

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

The movie you're looking for is 1998's "Phantoms," and you may have had trouble finding it because the book wasn't penned by Stephen King but by his horror-writing colleague Dean Koontz.

Ben Affleck may have gotten most of the press for the film, having burst on to the film scene a year earlier with his Oscar-winning hit "Good Will Hunting," but "Phantoms" actually featured a strong ensemble cast.

Affleck shared top billing on the film with Rose McGowan and Liev Schreiber, both of whom starred in the landmark horror hit "Scream" two years earlier, as well as an actor you may have heard of named Peter O'Toole (you might know him better as Lawrence of Arabia, or any of the other legendary roles he's played).

The movie was based on Koontz's book of the same name, published in 1983, just one of the dozens of novels he's written en route to becoming one of the biggest names in horror.

 

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