R.I.P. Angus Scrimm - Print Topic

Posted by: Dreamscale (Guest), January 11th, 2016, 11:38am

"The Tall Man" has passed on at 89, but he appears to have lived a very full life.

Posted by: AnthonyCawood, January 11th, 2016, 12:52pm; Reply: 1

Loved the Phantasm films, hopefully he'd finished filming his bits of the new one!

RIP

Posted by: James McClung, January 11th, 2016, 2:54pm; Reply: 2

Another legend, albeit on a smaller and different scale than Bowie. Original Phantasm is a classic, and Phantasm II is probably my favorite cheesy, blatantly Hollywood-ized sequel to a classic, aside from maybe Gremlins 2. Regardless, the Tall Man always brought a consistent sense of dread, gravitas, and strangeness to a series of films that were honestly full of a lot of silly shit, for better or for worse. Schrimm also had a handful of fun, varied cameos in Coscarelli's other films, namely his Masters of Horror entry, Incident on and off a Mountain Road. RIP.

Posted by: bert, January 11th, 2016, 3:46pm; Reply: 3

Quoted from James McClung

...the Tall Man always brought a consistent sense of dread...

And he did it without a hockey mask or a leather-face or any makeup or whatsoever.

Just him and his presence.

While pretty much his only role, he well and truly owned it like nobody else could.

I am also a huge fan of the Phantasm films, for sure.

Posted by: Demento, January 12th, 2016, 9:02pm; Reply: 4

Always liked him. Even though thought I never liked the Phantasm movies.

RIP.