Angus Scrimm’s dyspeptic Tall Man — a supernatural mortician, naturally up to no good — would go on to anchor four sequels of the influential “Phantasm” franchise. (The fifth movie is ...

Californians and fans willing to travel have to ask themselves this question — “What’s cooler than seeing Phantasm up on the big screen?” The answer? Seeing it on a big screen in the ...

Nefarious? You bet. But the Tall Man’s program still polls better than the GOP’s Medicare voucher plan. Along with the original, the Phantasm oeuvre is comprised of three sequels, released in ...

Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, afraid to lose his brother follow him to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lifting a coffin on his own. Mike decides to ...

NBC’s new-ish Peacock is known as “The streaming service that has The Office”. But as of today, it might be known as “The streaming service that has The Office … and four of the five of ...

But isn’t that just like a dream? Then in 2016, nearly four decades after the original, Phantasm returned from the dead, just like the Tall Man had so many times before. It only makes perfect ...

Yet “Phantasm” has gone on to become one of ... across time and dimensions by a ghoulish undertaker called the Tall Man (played in every film by Angus Scrimm, who died after completing ...

The Hanging Tree appears only briefly at the end of Phantasm, in the scene in which The Tall Man chases Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) through an open mine shaft. The site was supposed to have more ...

Coscarelli said Jones was in “the most impactful scene” in Phantasm. In the 1979 film, Jones’s character was drilled through the head by the Tall Man’s silver sphere. A river of blood was ...