The Night Strangler
Blu-ray Disc - 2018
Surfacing in Seattle, Kolchak uncovers another maddening mystery: Every 21 years--for the pastcentury--a serial killer commits a spree of murders, drains his victims' blood and then quietly disappears. But Kolchak is onto this monster and is about to discover a shocking underground lair, an army of rotting corpses, and the ageless madman behind it all.
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Publisher:
[New York, N.Y.] :, Kino Lorber, Inc.,, [2018]
Copyright Date:
©2018
Branch Call Number:
BLU-RAY FICTION NIG
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm)..
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Night strangler (Television program)
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Add a CommentThis is the best of The Night Stalker series IMO. The second ABC TV movie-of-the-week picks up where the first one leaves off with Kolchak winding up in 1973 Seattle. The whole premise of government cover ups was a common thread in a lot of 70's film making. Here it's co-opted to ghouls and vampires. A weird pairing would be Michael Small's 'The Parallax View': another paranoid Seattle caper from 1974. Both reflect the Watergate scandal and investigation which ran from 1972-74. What the sequel has over the first TV movie is a sense of humour about the whole thing. The matte shots of Seattle's 'underground city' are laughably obvious but I love that they extended things so the villain could have a proper evil lair. It's all preposterous fun. Plus ... John Carradine drops in. A TV series followed.
This was the pilot movie for the TV series. I thought it was the best show on television before
"The Six Million Dollar Man" and "Wonderwoman". Great for 70s nostalgia; but if you're used to modern vampire movies "Blade" and "Twilight" etc. it's going to seem lame and tame.
Always liked Darren McGavin. Commentary goes down memory lane.