Jody Pearson

Jody Pearson was a secondary protagonist in the Phantasm series. He is portrayed by Bill Thornbury.

About
He is a friend of Reggie and the brother of Mike Pearson. After the death of their parents he feels uncomfortable with the responsibility of taking care of his brother Mike. He also spends time with Reggie in order to play guitar with him while showing increasing nervousness regarding the mortuary of the town. The guitar he uses while playing with Reggie is electric while Reggie's is acoustic.

He is convinced by Mike about the evil activities of The Tall Man by showing him a finger of his, which proved he wasn't human because of its yellow blood. Later they convince Reggie about it, too.

After that they all investigate with Mike what is going on and realises later, that the Tall Man is killing people in order to reduce them by half,making them dwarfs and using them to achieve domination.Afterwards they also discover together during another visit to the mortuary that these reduced dead people are then transferred into another dimension to be used as slaves and that the procedure is necessary to make them livable in that place due to the heat and the gravity there. He also finds out that the weapons of The Tall Man can be fought against.

He died while trying to stop this with the help of Mike and Reggie. He was buried later. He is mentioned again in Phantasm II and then appears as a flying sphere in Phantasm III trying to protect Mike, but to no avail. Later he becomes a pawn of the Tall Man whose job is to manipulate Mike.