Set in the town of Cold Rock, The Tall Man is a story of the haunting secrets that hide behind closed doors. With children gone missing over the years, leaving neither a clue nor a witness, superstitious locals talk of ‘The Tall Man,’ a legendary, mysterious dark figure who takes children away never to be seen again. When a woman’s son is taken, the chase is on and with it the quest for answers: Who is the Tall Man, and what happens to the children?

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• Image Entertainment will distribute the film in the US via a theatrical release.
• Made it's world premiere at 2012's European Film Market.
• One of the producer's gave a brief update on the film, saying: "The film will not completed until late January. We are waiting to see if the movie gets into the Berlin Film festival which is the end of February 2012. I am sure the movie will be released in theatres in 2012 as it is very good and Pascal did an amazing job." (12/19/11)
• Also known as The Secret in foreign countries.
• Filmed for eight weeks in Vancouver, Canada.
• Budgeted at an estimated $15-million.
• This marks French director Pascal Laugier's (Martyrs) English-language debut.
• It's said that there are "a lot of twists and a strong female character that you feel very connected to."
• Described as a "suspenseful thriller in the vein of the early films of M. Night Shyamalan."
• No relation to the Phantasm series, which has a character simply known as "The Tall Man".

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