This is one of the scariest films from the 1970s that I ever watched. It has a cult-like following and it inspired 3 sequels.
Angus Scrimm plays a tall funeral parlor director who also happens to be an alien from an alternate dimension. His mission is to take dead people from our dimension and reincarnate them in his own dimension (in a happy meal version as opposed to super-sized). He's discovered by a teenager, with nothing better to do than spy on people, who witnesses him carting off a casket with his bare hands.
The movie is a bit disjointed as it moves from scene to scene and some of what happens seems to be out of place. The end of the movie, turning it into a dream sequence, kind of lets you down, at least until you realize that it was only partly a dream.
It stars A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm and others. Here's a trailer:
