Bill Thornbury

Phantasm -- Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, is afraid to lose his brother. Mike cannot decide what is real and what isn't, and is plagued by vivid nightmares. He gets the shock of his life when he watches, with binoculars, the conclusion of the funeral of his older brother's friend--the mortician (the Tall Man), by himself, lifts the casket into the back of a hearse. Mike decides to investigate and discovers a horrible world where the Tall Man, along with his flying spheres, shrink the to half their normal size and reanimate them as slaves. Mike heads to the grounds of the mortuary, which is home to very bizarre happenings, including a unique security device. Enlisting the help of brother Jody and ice cream salesman Reggie, Mike attempts to vanquish the Tall Man

If this one doesn't scare you...you're already dead! In this classic shocker that lauched the most uniquely chilling series in horror history, two brothers discover that their local mortuary hides a legion of hooded killer dwarf creatures, a flying drill-ball, and the demonic mortician known as The Tall Man. More than 30 years later, Phantasm is still hailed as one of the scariest movies of all time.

The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends, and enemies. They also must contend with the resurrected dead plus a growing number of the infamous and deadly silver spheres which aid the Tall Man as he sets his sights on indoctrinating Mike and finishing the fight that begun so many years ago.

After agreeing that the gory events of the first film existed only in his imagination, the now grown-up Mike is released from the psychiatric hospital. He teams up with his old buddy Reggie to take revenge on the Tall Man who murdered his family.