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[[File:phantasm.jpg|frame| ''"Boooooooyyyyyyyy!!!"'']]
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* [[Actionized Sequel]]: ''Phantasm II''
* [[Adam Westing]]: Scrimm's role as a [[Crusty Caretaker]] in the low-budget horror spoof ''Transylvania Twist'' sends up the Tall Man persona with which he is indelibly identified something rotten, including a flying sphere attack that turns into a baseball game.
* [[Alien Blood]]: Both the Tall Man and his minions bleed yellow. {{Spoiler| Mike later bleeds that blood when he finds out he's become a Tall Man like entity.}}
* [[All Just a Dream]]: [[Or Was It a Dream?|"No, it's not!"]]
* [[And I Must Scream]]: "You think that when you die, you go to Heaven. You come to us!"
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* [[Body Horror]]: {{spoiler|The Liz Creature}} from the second film and the {{spoiler|living, twisted body in the trunk}} from the fourth film.
* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Reggie: "Wow, some cops can be real assholes!" He also has some delightfully cheesy [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]s.
* [[Brick Joke]]: The entire series has one big one regarding Reggie and whether or not he believes the Tall Man exists. In the first movie, he believes Jody and Mike and even decides then and there to kill him. Then later on when Mike wakes up, the events of the movie are dismissed as a bad dream. In the second movie, which picks up where the first movie leaves off, Reggie believes again at first, only to dismiss the events as yet another bad dream and delusions from Mike. When Tall Man kills his family, Reggie is no longer a skeptic and this lasts well into the third and fourth movie. The fifth movie brings it full circle by hinting that all the events are the result of of an older Reggie's dementia. Making it darkly funny that after all the movies spent on Reggie going back and forth on his skepticism, now he's the one trying to tell Mike the Tall Man is real.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Booooooyyyyyyyy!!!"
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: In the second film, Reggie has a chainsaw duel with a [[Gas Mask Mooks|Gas Mask Mook]].
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* [[Elite Mook]]: The Gold Spheres.
** Probably more important than a mook {{spoiler|seeing as how both the Tall Man and Mike are gold spheres}}.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]] / [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]]: The Tall Man, has no qualms robbing graves, killing people and using their bodies for various evil experiments. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Yet he draws the line at piracy of his own movies]]. Every End Credit Sequence in the series always ends with "This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and Other Countries. Unauthorized duplication, distribution, or exhibition may result in Civil Liability, Criminal Prosecution and [[Major Misdemeanor|the wrath of The Tall Man]].
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: It is even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the fourth film, with the implication that [[Reality Is Unrealistic]].
{{quote|'''Reggie:''' We better move away from the car before the gasoline blows.
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* [[Mind Screw]]: How much of it is deliberate and how much is Coscarelli making it up as he goes along is unclear.
* [[Mirror Scare]]: The first film contains a classic example.
* [[Mugging the Monster]] A rare human example. In ''Phantasm Ravager'', Reggie loses the Cuda and tries to hitchhike his way back to the nearest town. A Cuda conveniently comes across him and picks him up. Reggie doesn't notice it at first, due to being weary from the walk, but realizes that it's Jody's Cuda and the man driving it stole it while he was looking for Mike. He makes small talk about owning a Cuda like this. Only his has a handgun in the console. The thief takes the bait and opens the console in an attempt to kill Reggie and keep the car. However he finds nothing. Only for Reggie to reveal that he lied and that the gun was in the glove box. Which he promptly opens, points at the thief and tells him to get out.
{{Quote|'''Reggie:''' Oh, that's right. It was in the glove box. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY CAR!!}}
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: The Tall Man. Though, to be fair, the extent of his powers is never made clear.
** The "Sentinel Spheres" (silver spheres) seem to do this on occasion. It's unknown exactly if different spheres have different weapons and other equipment (such as the "eye stalk sphere"), or if they're all flying Swiss army knives of death.
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* [[Wham! Line]]: At the end of the first film... {{spoiler|Mike is in his room - he closes the closet door to reveal the [[Not Quite Dead]] Tall Man standing behind him.}}
{{quote|'''The Tall Man''': '''BOOOOOOYYYYYY!!!'''}}
** At the end of the second film too, courtesy of the
{{quote|'''Mike''': [[All Just a Dream|Listen to me, none of this is real. We'll wake up!]] [[Madness Mantra|It's just a dream, it's just a dream-]]
** The Tall Man is good at these. From {{spoiler|the end of the third film:}}
{{quote|'''Reggie''': ''(to Tim)'' Run kid, get out of here! It's over!
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