The Night Stalker is a great movie and holds up well even to this day. Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is a schlubby, slightly sleazy reporter whose career is on the downturn being fired from papers in every major city, and reduced to working for a small newspaper in Las Vegas. Compromised when the vampire returns, Kolchak struggles to escape and is nearly killed by Skorzeny before his friend, FBI Agent Bernie Jenks, alerted to.
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Unfortunately, Curtis and Matheson were not part of the series which struggled for two years before being cancelled, but there are some fun episodes in the series nevertheless. This film was followed by another made for TV film, The Night Strangler, and a TV series. Of course, Kolchak immediately suspects it is a vampire. It has a good story of girls on the Vegas strip mysteriously found dead with large blood loss. The finale where Kolchak enters the vampires lair to drive a stake through the vampire’s heart offers rich suspense and atmosphere as powerful as any major film. The co-stars include Carol Lynley, who was a common 70s guest star as the girl next door type, Claude Akins, Elisha Cook, Simon Oakland, Larry Linville. It was a huge event to have a horror film on prime time TV and it made for active water cooler and school hall chatter for weeks. I remember the vampire being highly active and having tremendous strength, different than vampires in films up to the time. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins, Kent Smith, Larry. Filmed for ABC, it was an entertaining vampire film with an outstanding protagonist in Carl Kolchak played deftly by Darren McGavin. vampire is stalking the streets of Vegas. In the process, he shakes things up in a. We know this story: A hard-bitten, oft-fired reporter, looking for a fast track back to a big-city newspaper job, hopes to milk a sensational story for everything it’s worth. It held the record in ratings for the most watched TV movie up to that time boasting a 54% Market share. The 70s classic tells of gritty, down-on-his luck reporter Carl Kolchak who finds himself investigating an impossible crime. Each will be posted with my “TV Horror flick logo” The Night Stalker (1972)ĭan Curtis and Richard Matheson teamed up to produce and adapt the Jeff Rice unpublished novel, The Kolchak Papers. Simon Oakland reprised his earlier role as Kolchaks editor, Tony Vincenzo. I am going to review a bunch of these flicks. The cast of The Night Stalker included Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Claude. At this time period more than any other, horror flicks flourished on prime-time network television. In the 1970’s the major networks began producing their own horror movies brought on by the success of the Dan Curtis’ TV film, Dark Shadows, and it‘s subsequent series. Top Television Horror Movies of the 1970’s
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