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* [[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.
* [[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!"
* [[Asshole Victim]]: The looters in the third movie.
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* [[Badass Normal]]: Reggie in particular has this in spades.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Reggie is either awesome in spite of being bald, ugly and middle aged, or doubly awesome because of it.
* [[Bifurcated Weapon]]: Reggie's ''quadruple'' barreled [[Sawed
* [[Blatant Lies]]: In the fourth ''Phantasm'', in a dream, the Tall Man is caught by a noose and he begs the protagonist, Michael to cut him down.
{{quote|The Tall Man: "Cut me down!"
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** The death of one of the assistant morticians in the second film. {{spoiler|The Gold Sphere hits him right in the back and proceeds to drill right into his body, the mortician writing in agony, until it tries to leaves through his mouth but gets jammed in his jaws.}}
* [[The Danza]]: A. Michael Baldwin as Mike and Reggie Bannister as Reggie.
* [[Death
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: The ending of the first three movies.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Reggie.
* [[Do
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The true form of the Tall Man is implicated as being some kind of [[Cosmic Horror]] that is anchored in another dimension.
** In Phantasm 4, sweet old man Jebediah Morningside walks into his prototype Dimensional Gate... and something ''else'' wearing his skin comes back. This dialogue best illustrates it:
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* [[Go Into the Light]]: Mike is somewhat discouraged from doing so in the third film when he sees the Tall Man waiting for him there.
* [[Groin Attack]]: With a ''chainsaw'' in ''Phantasm II''.
* [[Hand in
* [[Heavyworlder]]: The lurkers.
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: The Tall Man.
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** Reggie's quadruple-barreled shotgun counts as this. It consists of two double-barreled shotguns connected together via their mechanisms to create a four barreled masterpiece.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted. Though little Mike is nearly killed by the Tall Man in the first movie, {{spoiler|''Phantasm II'' has Reggie's family, including his young daughter, killed after the Tall Man blows up their house, and ''Phantasm III'' has Tim taken and likely killed by one of Tall Man's Lurkers.}}
* [[Kill It
* [[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.
* [[New Powers
** 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.
*** Most noticeably, the Jody Sphere is able to shift into Jody's form, while the other spheres have to be embedded in a body to pass as human.
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