When his friend Tommy (Bill Cone) is mysteriously murdered in a cemetery, Reggie (Reggie Bannister), Jody (Bill Thornbury) and Jody’s 13-year-old brother Mike (A. Michael Baldwin), decides to investigate. They get more than they bargained for when they meet The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), a towering figure who possesses unnatural strength and vague psychic abilities. The tall man knows why he killed Tommy but won’t tell, so the three men must find out what he’s doing, why his mortuary could be a portal to another dimension, and how the hell he can control two flying silver spheres that can kill people in an instant.
It’s a compliment to say that looking ghost it feels like a bad dream you want to wake up from, but can’t. Although it has its share of gore, the film is less of a horror film and more of a horror film about the unknown. Nothing makes sense or is explained, that’s for sure ghost even more fear: you are not given the comfort of an explanation. And for a movie made in 1979, the special effects still hold up – those flying orbs look real and deadly.