BOY! Angus Scrimm’s sonorous and terrifying voice will boom forever through the catacombs of horror cinema. Director Don Coscarelli had already assembled his ensemble for his psychotropic midnighter with his first two films, Kenny & Company and Jim, the World’s Greatest, and it’s a good thing too, because it’s hard to imagine that strangers would understand its near-incomprehensible nightmare logic. But what anyone can understand is how it revolutionized horror, especially in its antagonist. The sweet-as-can-be Rory Guy adopted the stage name Angus Scrimm to play the Tall Man, an otherworldly body snatcher who crawls into your dreams to this day. – Richard Whittaker
