Written by Old Bluffer 15th Sep 2008

Written by Mr. Briggs Inc.

Tommy is one third of a three-piece blues band with his friends Reggie (q.v.) and Jody Pearson. Little does he know when he makes loves to a mysterious lady in lavender in the graveyard what his bandmates will go through following his death.

I digress, in the opening scene of Phantasm, the young man makes love to this lady in lavender, and afterwards is a bit too tired to notice the dagger she has somehow hidden on her person. Tommy's death is quick, as after he finishes, he is thanked for his efforts with a good impalement of his own, courtesy of his shape-shifting partner, who, observing Tommy's corpse reveals himself to the audience as actually being a stern-looking 50-something man!

The "Tall Man" (q.v.), as a ghastly mortician, has further plans for Tommy though, and following his preceding funeral service, he is put in the back of the Tall Man's hearse through the strength of only one of the man's hands! This is one of the first of many oddities that the man can perform, as we see much later into the film.

For examples directly pertaining, proceed on to Dwarf Tommy (q.v.)