Purple
(She/Her)
The main thing going on in Phantasm is that...What is happening in Phantasm? I watched it today, and cannot wrap my head around anything other than the Cerebral Bore from Turok 2 and “Boy!”.
a mysterious weirdo who definitely gets a detailed backstory and I think even a name in the 4th movie but everyone always just calls him The Tall Man is traveling around the U.S. taking over funeral homes so that he can steal all of their corpses, fill them with yellow goo to turn them into zombes, and compress them to jawa size so that their muscle density is higher and they are better suited to laboring on a high gravity planet he is not native to but teleports to, for reasons. He also sometimes transforms into a hot girl to seduce guys, which I don't feel needs any further explanation. Don't kinkshame. It's also strongly implied that he kills the general populace when nobody's using for maximum corpse collecting.
He is opposed in this by Some Kid (or BOY! if you will), his sketchy older brother who raised him, and said older brother's friend who runs an icecream truck.
In addition to being just kinda jacked and weirdly magical, and having the aforementioned zombie jawas, The Tall Man relies a lot on flying death spheres, which more than anything else actually get a lot of exposition in the sequels I shouldn't spoil here.
Past that a lot of weird stuff also happens, or maybe doesn't, as we are intentionally really damn vague on what is or is not a dream. And also early on the kid goes and sees an old fortune teller who just straight up gives him the gom jabar test from Dune just kinda for the hell of it, and this is never really brought up again.
He is opposed in this by Some Kid (or BOY! if you will), his sketchy older brother who raised him, and said older brother's friend who runs an icecream truck.
In addition to being just kinda jacked and weirdly magical, and having the aforementioned zombie jawas, The Tall Man relies a lot on flying death spheres, which more than anything else actually get a lot of exposition in the sequels I shouldn't spoil here.
Past that a lot of weird stuff also happens, or maybe doesn't, as we are intentionally really damn vague on what is or is not a dream. And also early on the kid goes and sees an old fortune teller who just straight up gives him the gom jabar test from Dune just kinda for the hell of it, and this is never really brought up again.