Jebediah Morningside is the bloodthirsty, Machiavellian and relentless malefic entity of the Phantasm horror saga, better known as The Tall Man is a being similar to a male human being who measures 1.93 meters, it is thought to be a being originating from a primordial dimension , inhabited by evil and ancient beings, its function is to procure dead bodies to turn them into their servants, a kind of dwarfs that incubates in that dimension, locking the bodies in boats.
He also captures humans to remove their brains and create sentinels, flying metallic balls specially designed to trepan heads and which are, in turn, a species of beings who wish to populate the world.
Phantasm (1979)[]
Following the death of his parents, 24-year-old musician Jody Pearson takes his 13-year-old brother, Mike, to a small Oregon town, where the boys are warned by police that town, people is kidnapped by a mysterious criminal. Reggie, a family man and owner of an ice cream truck; he joins the brothers in their suspicions that in a coffin room there is a mysterious person they identify as The Tall Man; who believe that he is responsible for the deaths of the people.
Mike projects his fears onto a fortune teller and his granddaughter, about the possibility of walking away from Jody and leaving him in the care of his evil aunt, along with the Tall Man's explanation; the fortune teller shows Mike a black square and tells him to put his hand on it; After that, Mike tells himself not to be afraid and finally finds out that they are right and they must stop the Tall Man before it's too late!
Cursed Minions[]
The Tall Man's army, the townspeople who are kidnapped, shrunk to dwarf size and reanimated along with a brainwashed monstrous, then the dwarves chase Mike when he decides to investigate. Later, Jody and Reggie, who find their stories childish; they find a strange white room with containers in The People's Mausoleum, Mike discovers a dimensional door, which is the entrance to another planet, where he enters briefly; There, he sees the dwarves that The Tall Man has hunted and that he is using as slaves, so he decides to escape from the Tall Man; Reggie is stabbed to death, so Mike and Jody run away and devise a plan to lure the Tall Man into a local abandoned mine shaft and trap him inside, after successfully doing so, Mike wakes up with a start in his house, located next to the fireplace.
Reggie, who is sitting next to him, tells Mike that he is simply having a nightmare, something that has been a common occurrence, Jody was killed in a car accident and when Mike walks into his bedroom, he is shocked to see the Tall Man standing next to him. he is waiting behind the door and the dwarves forcefully take Mike away.