While having sex in Morningside Cemetery, Tommy is stabbed by a woman, who is actually the Tall Man, the Morningside mortician, in another form. At the funeral, Tommy's friends, Jody and Reggie, believe he committed suicide. Jody's 13-year-old brother Mike secretly observes the funeral and sees the Tall Man placing Tommy's heavy casket, seemingly with little or no effort, back into the hearse instead of completing the burial. Mike then goes to a fortune teller and tells her what he saw. She has him stick his hand in a box, and at first something seems to grab it, but then he removes it unharmed.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Horror, Sci Fi |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Dac Coscarelli, Paul Pepperman |
Directed By: | Don Coscarelli |
Written By: | Don Coscarelli |
Cast: | Angus Scrimm, Kate Coscarelli, Kathy Lester, Bill Thornbury, Myrtle Scotton, Dac Coscarelli, Mary Ellen Shaw, Terrie Kalbus, Ralph Richmond, David Arntzen, Reggie Bannister, Susan Harper, A. Michael Baldwin, Lynn Eastman-Rossi, Bill Cone, Laura Mann, Kenneth V. Jones |
In Theaters: | Jun 01, 1979 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 28 minutes |
Production: | New Breed Productions Inc., Bad Robot |
Budget: | $300,000 |
Box Office: | $11,988,469 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |